Solar Energy Applications

By
Dr. V. V. Kondaiah
• Communications Power
• Refinery Protection/SCADA
Pipeline Power
• Mobile UPS
• Emergency Power for Medical Clinics
Pipeline Control and Monitoring
• Emergency Operations
Application on inclined roof
Multi-residential application
Large Scale Water Heating - Spain
Air Conditioning (Toyama Japan)
Pool Heating
Covering an area spanning 50 hectares in size, which is equivalent
to 100 football fields
Covering an area spanning 50 hectares in size the 46,150 solar
modules produce an average of 48,000 kilowatt hours of electricity
every day. The modules, each weighing 23 kg and with a glass surface
measuring around 1.5 meters by one meter, together add up to an
impressive capacity of twelve megawatts.
Opt for a window seat if flying in or out of the Cochin Airport and you
will be greeted by a sea of solar photo voltaic (PV) panels. Its expanse
is a thing of beauty.
Solar PV installations can be seen on rooftops, car ports, along the
runaways and on any land, not required for airport operations.
As of November 2018, with 40 MW worth of installations, it became
the first airport in the world to be powered solely by solar energy.
There are many commercial as well as
residential uses of solar water heating.
The rooftop solar
collectors on this office
building provide hot
water. Solar water
heating is one of the
oldest and most reliable
renewable energy
technologies.
Popular applications in the United States include facilities that use a
great deal of hot water, such as this army laundry in Massachusetts.
Simple solar water heaters are also very common in China.
Note that the storage tank is mounted horizontally on the
roof of this home in Beijing. The system operates the same,
but is configured differently.
Solar energy heats the water for this hospital in
Tennessee.
PTCs for water heating
Mars Rover. Photovoltaics are ideally suited for use in the space program.
Integration of Solar PV
with
Sprinkler Irrigation
Drip Irrigation System in West Bengal
by Kirloskar Solar Pump of 2000 Wp
 11 kW Solar Submersible Pump
Sahdai Bujurg, Vaishali, Bihar State
Supplying Water to a small town with a population 5,000
Solutions: Woman in India Uses
a Solar Cooker
Rooftop Solar Hot Water on Apartment
Buildings in Kunming, China
Raj Bhawan Jaipur
Jantar Mantar, Delhi
 Solar Steam system
at a Laundry

• 240 sq. m. solar dish system •

installed at Gajraj Cleaners,
Ahmed Nagar, Maharashtra
for washing & cleaning
• System hooked up with
existing boiler is generating
about 105 kg of steam per
hour at 5 kg pressure
• saving through furnace oil is
around 10,000 liter/yrs
• Pay back in 4 yrs with
depreciation benefit
•  
5 Star Rated GRIHA Building in IIT Kanpur

Trees preserved and

protected

Solar PV and Solar Thermal

systems

N-S Orientation with

shading (roof/window)

Outdoor solar lights

Incremental cost 17%
Energy savings 52%
Lesser paving Payback period :3 years
IIT BHU
Solar PV for Industrial Applications
 Unmanned Off-shore Oil
Wellhead Platforms
 Battery Charging Stations
 VLPTs For Doordarshan         
 Power Plants
 Defence Applications
 Railways
 Telecommunication
 50,000 LPD solar
water heating
system at a Textile
Factory at Manesar
 Solar steam system at ITC
Hotel, New Delhi
Solar steam cooking system at Tirupati
for 15000 people
 POWER PACK FOR TELECOM TOWERS
SOLAR WATER PUMP AT MUKERIAN,
HOSHIARPUR, PUNJAB

SOLAR ROAD STUDS SOLAR STREETLIGHTS SOLAR BLINKERS

 SPV installation under Roshni

50 kw SPV power plant 100 SPV stand alone street lights

 About solar buses
• The bus is rigged with solar
panels to power our
audio/visual and equipment.
There are eight solar panels
on the bus roof, and these
produce electricity that is
stored in batteries inside the
bus. An inverter changes the
voltage for different
appliances—fans and interior
lights run on a 12-volt system,
while everything else runs on
110 volts.
• World’s Largest Solar Steam Cooking System
• Sathyabama University feels proud to have inaugurated the World’s Largest
Solar Steam Cooking System on 1st of July, 2009 in the campus. At Sathyabama
University, we have 110 concentrator dishes with an area of 1100 m2 (World’s
largest installation in terms of the number of dishes and square metres of the
reflecting concentrator dishes). These solar steam cooking systems were
developed by M/s. Gadhia Solar Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd., Gujarat.

A solar-powered kitchen consumes lesser power and time than a conventional

kitchen and ensures that a meal is cooked in half-an-hour, whereas it may take
one-and-a-half hour to cook the same using LPG. Unlike the LPG model, solar
steam cooking system helps to keep the kitchen clean and hygienic. This
kitchen, by replacing LPG with solar dishes, saves nearly Rs. 20 lakhs every year.
Out of 365 days in a year, Tamilnadu experiences hot weather for 320 days and
is ideal for tapping solar energy. Surplus power generated from these solar
dishes can be used for heating water. Nearly Rs. 7.5 lakhs is spent for LPG every
month for cooking food for the hostel residents. This cost is expected to come
down by half. currently our university is doing more research works in the solar
system.
Solarization of Stadiums
Hybridization of Solar and Wind Power
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