Author : S. K.Kardile, S.S Uttarwar and S.D Kathwate

Ample of Solar power is available in universe . It can be used for various applications . One of them is steam generation . Parabolic shaped dishes Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology can be found one of the most important option for generating renewable electricity at the required scale .The paper presented here , we have tried to do the optimization of tilt angle of Solar concentrators by using Taguchi Method . This is a statistical approach to optimize the variable process parameters and improve the quality of concerned components that are manufactured. The objective of this study is to illustrate the procedure adopted in using Taguchi Method to find best tilt angle for CSP . First, a Taguchi experiment was used to perform an efficient experimental design and analyzed the robustness of the tilt angles for fixed south-facing PV modules. The objective is to maximize the steam generated from the modules .

Keywords: Solar CSP ,tilt angle, Taguchi, steam generation