Shashwata Chakraborty

Modeling and Applications of a Solar Dish Stirling Engine in the Perspective of Bangladesh

Background: Energy is the most essential thing to ensure sustainable development and the forward ongoing approach of human civilization. For over the last three decades, the consumption of energy has doubled to the rate it was back in the last century. In our country, the scenario is even worse. In spite of being a promising country the economic development was not achieved the way it was expected just because of the lack of reliable energy source and the proper distribution of its necessary for industrialization. The amount of the total stored natural gas in the country is inadequate and tends to exhaust by the next decade. So, it is high time to find a reliable alternative source for the flawless supply of energy in this densely populated country. This paper focuses on a way to get rid of this prevalent power crisis by utilizing this solar energy using the parabolic dish solar Stirling engine which consists of a concentrator that focuses the incident solar rays to a definite point where a Stirling engine will be located to harness the heat energy and convert it to a mechanical output to be further changed to electricity with the aid of a generator coupled to it. As the fossil fuels will definitely move away soon or later, all the nations of the Earth have become concerned to find the alternatives of fossil fuel, especially a renewable source of energy so that it will never exhaust and therefore a constant assurance of the energy might be found.