Applications of Solar Energy
Solar energy is successfully employed in the following applications of day to day life of today.
- Heating and cooling of residential buildings.
- Solar water heating.
- Drying of agricultural and animal products.
- Solar distillation on small scale.
- Salt production by evaporation of sea water or inland brines.
- Solar-cookers.
- Solar engines for water pumping.
- Food refrigeration.
- Bio – conversion and wind energy, which are indirect sources of solar energy.
- Solar furnaces.
- Solar electric power generation by :
(i) Solar ponds
(ii) Steam generators heated by rotating reflectors or by tower concept.
- Reflectors with lenses and pipes for fluid circulation.
- Solar photovoltaic cells.