Solar Industrial Process Heating system for Indian Automobile Industry

Abstract

Indian automobile industry is one of the largest in the world. To match production with demand, many automobile makers have started to invest heavily in various parts in the industry. Automobile industries have number of different production that needs large amounts of energy in form of electricity or heat. In automobile industry over 65% of the energy demand is for heating. Possible integration with proper solar thermal technology depending on the temperature range achieved by different solar collectors and temperature needed for process provided by heat application media. It also shows the current energy source or fuel being used to achieve these processes. Proposed system combines the direct steam generation concentrating collectors with the fossil fuel fired high pressure boiler. Solar thermal technology can be installed in the most automobile industrial sectors to lower consumption of fossil fuels, cut production costs, preserve environment by lessening CO2 emissions. Concentrating solar collector field is mounted on the roof of an industrial production site to Solaris the supply of saturated steam into steam network.