DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SOLAR TRACKER SYSTEM USING HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR FOR PARABOLIC SOLAR COLLECTOR

Parabolic solar collector collects the radiant energy emitted from the sun and focuses at a point. However, the basic problem with the collector was to track the path of the sun as the sun moves from east to west for the entire day the solar collector does not move. In today’s era as the demand of the renewable source of energy are going to be most important and precious. As we know non renewable sources of energy are consuming very rapidly. The idea of solar tracking comes into sense. Now coming to Our research paper idea; it is to make a solar tracker to track the path of the sun with use of hydraulic actuator arrangement , This paper gives the information about to how to track the path of the sun so that we can trap the maximum energy of the sun.