• Dinesh Chaitram Mahale
• Dr. Sanjeev D. Suryawanshi

In world conventional energy resources goes on rapidly decreases. So it needs to concentrate towards non conventional or renewable energy resources. Out of the available energy resources, solar energy is one of the most important and easily available sources of energy. As the technocrat main aim is to develop an economical mode of utilization of solar energy. Using solar concentrator solar energy for various applications is utilized. Now a day’s different types of concentrator are designed, one of them is Scheffler solar concentrator. This is one of the popular concentrator in India which are used for direct and community cooking application. So the aim of project is to analyse the strength and distortion characteristics of 16 m2 Scheffler solar concentrator using FEA. The geometrical modeling of 16 m2 Scheffler solar concentrator is done in CATIA V5R17. The Pre-processing of the model for material Steel and Aluminum and for thickness variants of 2 mm, 1.5 mm and 1 mm is done with HyperMesh, analysis is done with ANSYS 11.0 and Post-Processing is done with HyperView. Finally the design improvement study of the Scheffler is successfully performed resulting in the good cost reduction.

"Finite Element Analysis of 16 m2 Scheffler solar concentrator structure for weight", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no.f337-f350, June-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406538.pdf

"Finite Element Analysis of 16 m2 Scheffler solar concentrator structure for weight", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no. ppf337-f350, June-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406538.pdf