This Project includes the design, preliminary calculations that determine the characteristics of the use of solar concentrators; construction, wich includes the manufacture of solar equipment and its structural parts; and implementation of the project with its results, wich will be specifically analyzed in this work. All this with the aim of generating hot water to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels for an industrial customer, wich has a process where the essential oil of lemon is obtained by consuming a large amount of steam power trough an industrial boiler. The final results of the project will demonstrate the great benefits of using solar energy for industrial processes, setting a precedent for future clients, who must migrate to these new solutions in this new era of industry 4.0 to be more efficient, more sustainable and more competitive in a worl that moves faster every year.

The energy assessment carried out in a middle-sized CSP parabolic field of 120 m2 is presented; it provides pre-heating water at 70°C to the boilers of the lemon essential oil extraction process in an agro-industrial company located in Piura, at the border of Sechura desert in Peru. The parabolic cylindrical solar concentrators are made with glass reflectors, an automatic solar tracking system, and collector tubes through which water flows. It was measured that each collector converts solar energy and transfer it as a thermal energy to the water with an average efficiency of 18.1%. Considering this result, theoretically the whole solar field could provide 550.37 GJ/year for water preheating, which is equivalent to saving 28151.8 liters of LPG, and 46.87 tons of CO2 released to the environment. However, after a year of operation, the solar field provided only 99.59 GJ for water preheatin...