25-10-2014, 12:17 PM
Abstracts: Electrotherm India Limited, Renewable Division is engaged into solar water heating system, solar process heating, air-conditioning systems and large as well as utility scale concentrated solar power plants. This company uses the heat pipe in the solar water heating system. Presently the company is importing the heat pipe from foreign country which is to be assembled in solar water heater. Hence, the project that has been taken up by us to indigenize the product by another novel design and fabrication of heat pipe, used in solar water heater at Electrotherm Renewables (India) Ltd. Generally the conventional solar water heaters by other manufacturers do not use heat pipe in India. Our main aim of this project is to develop heat pipe by using water as a working fluid to improve its efficiency. This project also includes the identification of different combinations of working fluid with the material of heat pipe along with its consideration of manufacturing cost of heat pipe in comparison with its import cost.