{"id":117135,"date":"2021-07-08T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=117135"},"modified":"2021-07-08T10:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:54:46","slug":"concentrated-solar-thermal-cst-based-test-rig-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/concentrated-solar-thermal-cst-based-test-rig-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) based test rig facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: In which of the following city, Central government has established the Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) based test rig facility?<br><\/strong>a) Raipur<br>b) Bengaluru<br>c) Hyderabad<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 7 July 2021; the Union ministry of science &amp; technology announced the establishment of Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) based test rig facility at Hyderabad.<\/li><li>CST at Hyderabad can help the growing solar industry in India to test capability and performance of solar thermal components like solar receiver tubes, heat transfer fluids, concentrating mirrors.<\/li><li>The facility has been set up by the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science &amp; Technology (DST).<\/li><li>It will validate solar thermal components such as solar receiver tubes, heat transfer fluids, concentrating mirrors, and AR coated glass tubes, etc. of the CST system in field conditions.<\/li><li>It will validate the indigenous components by parallelly comparing the performance (heat gain and heat loss properties) of the standard components.<\/li><li>It wiil be done with varying the operating parameters (e.g., flow rates of Heat Transfer Fluids (HTFs) operating temperature, pressures, etc.) and different DNI (Direct Normal Irradiance) conditions.<\/li><li>The development of solar thermal technologies for low and medium-temperature applications requires much attention of indigenous solar thermal components manufacturing facilities.<\/li><li>There is the need that indigenous solar thermal components should have cost-effective engineering designs because most of the solar thermal companies import solar thermal components, particularly from China and Europe.<\/li><li>In this regard, ARCI is working on the development of cost-effective solar receiver tubes, anti-reflective (AR) coated glass covers, nanostructure material-based thermic fluids etc.<\/li><li>There is also the requirement of Development of durable reflective mirrors to enhance the performance and cutting down the cost of the solar thermal systems in India.<\/li><li>Apart from the development, the testing and validation of the components in real-field conditions are critical for the deployment of solar thermal technology.<\/li><li>In order to cater to this need, ARCI has established a concentrated solar thermal-based single-axis parabolic trough test rig facility sponsored by the Technology Research Centre (TRC) project, DST, Govt. of India.<\/li><li>The parabolic-trough test rig facility has features for simultaneous testing of standard and indigenous solar receiver tubes.<\/li><li>It has a thermic fluid-based closed-loop system which can operate between 50 to 350\u00b0C temperature ranges.<\/li><li>It can conduct heat gain studies in real-field conditions with the actual measurement of solar irradiance condition and has an electrical heater support for measuring the actual heat loss of solar receivers at different operating temperatures.<\/li><li>ARCI\u2019s test rig facility provides the performance of indigenously developed solar thermal components in real-field operating conditions, thus attracting greater interest from the industries.<\/li><li>Recently, HPCL R&amp;D, Bangalore, has sanctioned a project to ARCI for validating their indigenously developed heat transfer fluids with the comparison of a world-leading commercial product.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1733436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1733436<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In which of the following city, Central government has established the Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) based test rig facility?a) Raipurb) Bengaluruc) Hyderabadd) None of theseAnswer: (c)Related facts:- On 7 July 2021; the Union ministry of science &amp; technology announced the establishment of Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) based test rig facility at Hyderabad. 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