Technical viability of parabolic dish concentrating solar power in Malaysia environment

Mohamad Safuwan , Romli (2014) Technical viability of parabolic dish concentrating solar power in Malaysia environment. Project Report. UTeM. (Submitted)

Text TECHNICAL VIABILITY OF PARABOLIC DISH CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER IN MALAYSIA ENVIRONMENT 24pages.pdf Download (483kB)

Abstract

Nowadays, the continuous usage of non-renewable such as fossil fuel combustion now and soon will cause of the negative effect in using which cause of global climate change. Another alternative that more reliable and abundant compared to fossil fuel is renewable energy such as solar. Solar Energy (SE) is by far, the most abundant energy source. Solar can be separated into two types that is Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology. CSP is a technology which solar radiation is concentrated as much as possible via a parabolic mirror to generate high temperature that then focusing to a receiver that is connected to the Stirling engine, the engine then will produce a mechanical output that then move the generator to generate electricity. However, Malaysia is only focusing to generate electricity using PV while using CSP technology still not be taking into consideration. Malaysia naturally has abundant sunshine and thus solar radiation. However, it is difficult to have a full day with the sky is really clear even in severe drought. The annual average daily solar irradiation for Malaysia has a magnitude of 4.21 – 5.56 kWhm-2 and the sunshine duration is more than 2200 hours per years. The purpose of this project identify the potential using of CSP parabolic dish by taking into consideration of using this technology in Malaysia environment, which is by considering of climate change in Malaysia such as wind speed, rapid change of clouds, rain, temperature and relative humidity. There were two methods to analyze the potential of CSP, first by doing field measurement and collecting data from data logger. From the data analyze, the increasing relative humidity that can disturb to the changes ambient temperature and tilted irradiance. Therefore, it can concluded that to there is possible to implement the technology of CSP parabolic dish Stirling engine system in Malaysia.

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