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Heat Generation by Given Size of Parabolic Dish

07/20/2011 6:51 AM

How to calculate heat generated by a given size of parabolic dish and how many litres of water does it bring to a boiling point in how many minutes?

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Re: Heat generation by given size of parabolic dich

07/20/2011 7:10 AM

Look up insolation (at your latitude) it should give you a figure for watts per square meter.
If you assume your parabolic reflector collects all that falls on it (∏r2 for area), factor in an efficiency, say 80% at a blind guessif you like.
Then you just need the specific heat of water, someting like 1 watt raises 1cc by 1 degree C or some such (I can't remember an I'm sure as heck not googling that for you!).
Google to get the real figures and do the arithmetic.
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Re: Heat Generation by Given Size of Parabolic Dish

07/20/2011 8:18 AM

If you just want to boil a few liters of water, a fresnel lens would be a less expensive and easier method of doing that. You can google 'fresnel lens' and find a number of sources to buy large ones for doing that and pages that talk about solar concentrators. You can go to Wikipedia and search on 'fresnel solar concentrator' and find a page that does the math.

And there is also this cool video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njs2jecuuRU

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