This paper proposes a project that involves an automated solar tracking system which will make use
of LDR’s to track the position of sun. The output of LDR’s will be compared and analyzed to provide correct
alignment of the solar panel. Also another tracking technique is being implemented along, which uses the relation
of sun earth position at a given location. This telemetric data is given to microcontroller which will drive the
motors to align the solar panel. This is useful during cloudy weather and rainy days when it is difficult to check
the position of sun. Solar panels give output efficiency of around 15% to 20% based on the type of panel. The use
of solar tracking system increases it to a range of about 30% to 35%. This project further involves use of reflective
sheets on the sides of solar panel which will concentrate the reflected rays on the panel. Due to this the efficiency
is further increased around 40%. This project is a cost effective solution for stationary solar systems to increase
efficiency.
Development of a Smart Mechatronic Tracking System to Enhance Solar Cell Pan...IJMER
Two degree of freedom Mechatronic solar tracking system was developed in the present study
to improve the performance of photovoltaic cell panels. The present tracking control algorithm was
applied on a small prototype, simulating a solar cells panel tracking system, designed and constructed in
this work. The Mechatronic tracking hardware section consists mainly of a commercial arduino micro-controller with built in, two servo motor drivers, data input/output, and micro processor modules. Other
components of the tracking hardware are, servo motors actuators and four LDR light intensity sensors. A
feedback control soft ware program, designed and constructed in the present work, enables the solar
tracker to automatically compensate for the sun location’s change to enhance the PV cells efficiency. The
LDR sensors are employed to continuously detect the sun rays intensity at four, light exposed isolated
positions, representing up-right, up-left, down-right, and down-left sides of the solar panel. LDRs data is
hence sent to the control software. The data is used to decide proper actuation actions and send them to
the servomotors to redirect the PV cells panel perpendicular to incident sun rays. Sensors and actuation
signals are exchanged via the in/out data module of the Arduino package. Results of the present
experimental work show that using the present tracking system increases the PV cell out power by about
38% compared with that of a fixed collector
An Efficient Microcontroller Based Sun Tracker Control for Solar Cell SystemsIJECEIAES
The solar energy is fast becoming a different means of electricity resource. Now in world Fossil fuels are seriously depleting thus the need for another energy source is a necessity. To create effective utilization of its solar, energy efficiency must be maximized. An attainable way to deal with amplifying the power output of sun-powered exhibit is by sun tracking. This paper presents the control system for a solar cell orientation device which follows the sun in real time during daytime.
A cost effective computational design of maximum power point tracking for pho...IJECEIAES
Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is one of the essential controller operations of any Photo-Voltaic (PV) cell design. Developing an efficient MPPT system includes a significant challenge as there are various forms of uncertainty factors that results in higher degree of fluctuation in current and voltage in PV cell. After reviewing existing system, it has been found that there is no presence of any benchmarked model to ensure a better form of computational model. Hence, this paper presents a novel and very simple design of MPPT without using any form of complex design mechanism nor including any form of frequently used iterative approach. The proposed model is completely focused on developing an algorithm that takes the input of voltage (open circuit), current (short circuit), and max power in order to obtain the peak power to be extracted from the PV cells. The study outcome shows faster response time and better form of analysis of current-voltage-power for given state of PV cells.
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT OF THE SOLAR PANELS WITH...IAEME Publication
Nowadays solar energy is getting much attention in all the available renewable
sources. Most of the solar devices consist of a solar receptor arranged to face the sun to
get the maximum amount of sunlight on a photovoltaic panel using mirrors and auto
tracking technology. However the main defect occurs with the day and seasonal
variations. The amount of electricity produced from PV panel depends on the amount of
radiation that is focused on the PV panel. More the radiation on panel results in more
amount of electricity. In this present work an attempt is made to increase the amount of
radiation by introducing the mirror and auto tracking arrangement to allow more rays to
be concentrated on a small area of photovoltaic panel. A new platform made in shape in
parabolic which is adjusted to follow the sun. Mirrors and PV panels are attached on a
Flat shaped frame at an angle of 120° between them. A fuzzy logic controller is proposed
to estimate the exact time for sun tracking. The closet location while getting the sunlight
is considered as input taken from the database. This method minimizes the number of
motors for initial start and helps for the less quantity of energy loss in partial or full cloud
conditions. The comparison has studied for fixed PV panel and this new PV panel with
mirror and results are tabulate. The results show an increase of 33% in average of
efficiency by using mirror and tracking system
Development of a Smart Mechatronic Tracking System to Enhance Solar Cell Pan...IJMER
Two degree of freedom Mechatronic solar tracking system was developed in the present study
to improve the performance of photovoltaic cell panels. The present tracking control algorithm was
applied on a small prototype, simulating a solar cells panel tracking system, designed and constructed in
this work. The Mechatronic tracking hardware section consists mainly of a commercial arduino micro-controller with built in, two servo motor drivers, data input/output, and micro processor modules. Other
components of the tracking hardware are, servo motors actuators and four LDR light intensity sensors. A
feedback control soft ware program, designed and constructed in the present work, enables the solar
tracker to automatically compensate for the sun location’s change to enhance the PV cells efficiency. The
LDR sensors are employed to continuously detect the sun rays intensity at four, light exposed isolated
positions, representing up-right, up-left, down-right, and down-left sides of the solar panel. LDRs data is
hence sent to the control software. The data is used to decide proper actuation actions and send them to
the servomotors to redirect the PV cells panel perpendicular to incident sun rays. Sensors and actuation
signals are exchanged via the in/out data module of the Arduino package. Results of the present
experimental work show that using the present tracking system increases the PV cell out power by about
38% compared with that of a fixed collector
An Efficient Microcontroller Based Sun Tracker Control for Solar Cell SystemsIJECEIAES
The solar energy is fast becoming a different means of electricity resource. Now in world Fossil fuels are seriously depleting thus the need for another energy source is a necessity. To create effective utilization of its solar, energy efficiency must be maximized. An attainable way to deal with amplifying the power output of sun-powered exhibit is by sun tracking. This paper presents the control system for a solar cell orientation device which follows the sun in real time during daytime.
A cost effective computational design of maximum power point tracking for pho...IJECEIAES
Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is one of the essential controller operations of any Photo-Voltaic (PV) cell design. Developing an efficient MPPT system includes a significant challenge as there are various forms of uncertainty factors that results in higher degree of fluctuation in current and voltage in PV cell. After reviewing existing system, it has been found that there is no presence of any benchmarked model to ensure a better form of computational model. Hence, this paper presents a novel and very simple design of MPPT without using any form of complex design mechanism nor including any form of frequently used iterative approach. The proposed model is completely focused on developing an algorithm that takes the input of voltage (open circuit), current (short circuit), and max power in order to obtain the peak power to be extracted from the PV cells. The study outcome shows faster response time and better form of analysis of current-voltage-power for given state of PV cells.
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT OF THE SOLAR PANELS WITH...IAEME Publication
Nowadays solar energy is getting much attention in all the available renewable
sources. Most of the solar devices consist of a solar receptor arranged to face the sun to
get the maximum amount of sunlight on a photovoltaic panel using mirrors and auto
tracking technology. However the main defect occurs with the day and seasonal
variations. The amount of electricity produced from PV panel depends on the amount of
radiation that is focused on the PV panel. More the radiation on panel results in more
amount of electricity. In this present work an attempt is made to increase the amount of
radiation by introducing the mirror and auto tracking arrangement to allow more rays to
be concentrated on a small area of photovoltaic panel. A new platform made in shape in
parabolic which is adjusted to follow the sun. Mirrors and PV panels are attached on a
Flat shaped frame at an angle of 120° between them. A fuzzy logic controller is proposed
to estimate the exact time for sun tracking. The closet location while getting the sunlight
is considered as input taken from the database. This method minimizes the number of
motors for initial start and helps for the less quantity of energy loss in partial or full cloud
conditions. The comparison has studied for fixed PV panel and this new PV panel with
mirror and results are tabulate. The results show an increase of 33% in average of
efficiency by using mirror and tracking system
Optimization of Solar Energy Production using PLC and SCADAijtsrd
This paper focuses on the maximizing the solar energy produced by Solar cells through the development of such a Sun-Tracking system that can be implemented using PLC and SCADA. The developed tracking system is innovative in relation to the usual sun tracking systems available in the market. In fact, the developed solution has many advantages in relation to similar existing devices, as this system can automatically work in order to optimize the energy production of photovoltaic cells as we know that in case of fixed Solar cells, the efficiency is very poor. This efficiency of power generation by Solar cells can be increased using this system, so that as the position of sun changes, the position of Solar cell is automatically adjusted by using stepper motors. An experimental prototype was built and field results have proven the good performance of the developed tracking system. Abhishek Kumar Chambel | Er. Bharti Sood "Optimization of Solar Energy Production using PLC & SCADA" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-1 , December 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18912.pdf
http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electrical-engineering/18912/optimization-of-solar-energy-production-using-plc-and-scada/abhishek-kumar-chambel
Design and implementation of smart electronic solar tracker based on ArduinoTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Demand of energy increases in the global and exponential exhaustion is favored of resources by
fossil fuel for electricity production with the new systems development. Compared with all other remainder
energies, the specialist sun energy is the most bountiful energy and it's typically easy to be changed into
electrical energy. The main thing of using solar panel is to produce electrical energy from sun's energy but
the optimum energy can be generated by tracking solar panel due to the sun movement from east to west.
The problem can be solved by proposed systems where the sun tracking by solar panel that based on high
intensity of sun ray. This paper concentrates on tracking the sun by using servo motor coupled with solar
panel. So that, the largest quantity of sun light at the incident panel along the day at any time is better than
that for method of fixed panel array which is less efficient. The microcontroller Arduino (mode UNO) was
programmed by using C++ language while the track of sun light processing was implemented by using
light depending resistor (LDR), Chip IC H-bridge and microcontroller Arduino (UNO) circuits have been
designed by using Proteus software. By circuit design and sun tracking control process, the cost reduction
has been improved and high amount of energy was saved when implemented this system.
In this paper, the artificial neural network (ANN) has been utilized for rotating machinery faults detection and classification. First, experiments were performed to measure the lateral vibration signals of laboratory test rigs for rotor-disk-blade when the blades are defective. A rotor-disk-blade system with 6 regular blades and 5 blades with various defects was constructed. Second, the ANN was applied to classify the different x- and y-axis lateral vibrations due to different blade faults. The results based on training and testing with different data samples of the fault types indicate that the ANN is robust and can effectively identify and distinguish different blade faults caused by lateral vibrations in a rotor. As compared to the literature, the present paper presents a novel work of identifying and classifying various rotating blade faults commonly encountered in rotating machines using ANN. Experimental data of lateral vibrations of the rotor-disk-blade system in both x- and y-directions are used for the training and testing of the network.
Design of Dual Axis Solar Tracker System Based on Fuzzy Inference Systems ijscai
Electric power is a basic need in today’s life. Due to the extensive usage of power, there is a need to look
for an alternate clean energy source. Recently many researchers have focused on the solar energy as a
reliable alternative power source. Photovoltaic panels are used to collect sun radiation and convert it into
electrical energy. Most of the photovoltaic panels are deployed in a fixed position, they are inefficient as
they are fixed only at a specific angle. The efficiency of photovoltaic systems can be considerably increased
with an ability to change the panels angel according to the sun position. The main goal of such systems is
to make the sun radiation perpendicular to the photovoltaic panels as much as possible all the day times.
This paper presents a dual axis design for a fuzzy inference approach-based solar tracking system. The
system is modeled using Mamdani fuzzy logic model and the different combinations of ANFIS modeling.
Models are compared in terms of the correlation between the actual testing data output and their
corresponding forecasted output. The Mean Absolute Percent Error and Mean Percentage Error are used
to measure the models error size. In order to measure the effectiveness of the proposed models, we
compare the output power produced by a fixed photovoltaic panels with the output which would be
produced if the dual-axis panels are used. Results show that dual-axis solar tracker system will produce
22% more power than a fixed panels system.
KEYWORDS
Fuzzy, Membership function, Universe of discourse, PV, ANFIS, DC motor, FLC.
1. INTRODUCTION
Fuzzy logic can be viewed as an extension of classical logical
An IntelligentMPPT Method For PV Systems Operating Under Real Environmental C...theijes
The sun irradiance (G) and temperature (T) are the two main factors that affect the output power gained from the photovoltaic (PV) DC–DC converter. Therefore, to enhance the performance of the overall system; a mechanism to track the maximum power point (MPP) is required. Conventional maximum power point tracking approaches, such as observation and perturbation technique, experience difficulty in identifying the true MPP. Therefore, intelligent systems including fuzzy logic controllers (FLC) are introduced for the maximum power point tracking system (MPPT). The selection of the membership functions (MFs) and the fuzzy sets (FSs) numbers are crucial in the performance of the FLC based MPPT. Accordingly, this work presents numerous adaptive neuro-fuzzy systems to automatically adjustthe fuzzy logic controller membership functions as an alternative to the trial and error approach, which waste time and effort in MPPT design. For this purpose an adaptive neuro-fuzzy system is developed in MATLAB/Simulink to determine suitable MFs and the FSs for the fuzzy logic controller. The effects of different types of MFs and the FSs are deeply investigated using real data collected from the rooftop PV system. The investigations show that the fuzzy logic controller with a triangular membership function and seven fuzzy setsprovides the best results
This paper presents a fast and accurate fault detection, classification and direction discrimination algorithm of transmission lines using one-dimensional convolutional neural networks (1D-CNNs) that have ingrained adaptive model to avoid the feature extraction difficulties and fault classification into one learning algorithm. A proposed algorithm is directly usable with raw data and this deletes the need of a discrete feature extraction method resulting in more effective protective system. The proposed approach based on the three-phase voltages and currents signals of one end at the relay location in the transmission line system are taken as input to the proposed 1D-CNN algorithm. A 132kV power transmission line is simulated by Matlab simulink to prepare the training and testing data for the proposed 1D- CNN algorithm. The testing accuracy of the proposed algorithm is compared with other two conventional methods which are neural network and fuzzy neural network. The results of test explain that the new proposed detection system is efficient and fast for classifying and direction discrimination of fault in transmission line with high accuracy as compared with other conventional methods under various conditions of faults.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
The Short and Long Term Peace Strategies: "Anglophone" Crisis, Cameroonijtsrd
Just like in Ethiopia, the unrest in the Republic of Cameroon is rooted in the countrys history, which dates back to many years. This paper seeks to analyze the institutional and attitudinal elements on the way forward for the restoration to normalcy of the state of affairs within the national territory. It is not a recipe for apportioning blames but of principles and options to a pacific settlement of disputes within the national territory. Maxwell N. Achu ""The Short and Long Term Peace Strategies: “Anglophone†Crisis, Cameroon"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23512.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/23512/the-short-and-long-term-peace-strategies-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C5%93anglophone-crisis-cameroon/maxwell-n-achu
Development of a Smart Mechatronic Tracking System to Enhance Solar Cell Pane...IJMER
Two degree of freedom Mechatronic solar tracking system was developed in the present study
to improve the performance of photovoltaic cell panels. The present tracking control algorithm was
applied on a small prototype, simulating a solar cells panel tracking system, designed and constructed in
this work. The Mechatronic tracking hardware section consists mainly of a commercial arduino microcontroller
with built in, two servo motor drivers, data input/output, and micro processor modules. Other
components of the tracking hardware are, servo motors actuators and four LDR light intensity sensors. A
feedback control soft ware program, designed and constructed in the present work, enables the solar
tracker to automatically compensate for the sun location’s change to enhance the PV cells efficiency. The
LDR sensors are employed to continuously detect the sun rays intensity at four, light exposed isolated
positions, representing up-right, up-left, down-right, and down-left sides of the solar panel. LDRs data is
hence sent to the control software. The data is used to decide proper actuation actions and send them to
the servomotors to redirect the PV cells panel perpendicular to incident sun rays. Sensors and actuation
signals are exchanged via the in/out data module of the Arduino package. Results of the present
experimental work show that using the present tracking system increases the PV cell out power by about
38% compared with that of a fixed collector
Arduino based Dual Axis Smart Solar TrackerIJAEMSJORNAL
Solar energy is rapidly advancing as an important means of renewable energy resource. It is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaic, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis. Trackers direct solar panels or modules toward the sun. These devices change their orientation throughout the day to follow the sun’s path to maximize energy capture. The use of solar trackers can increase electricity production by around a third, and some claim by as much as 40% in some regions, compared with modules at a fixed angle. In any solar application, the conversion efficiency is improved when the modules are continually adjusted to the optimum angle as the sun traverses the sky. This paper presents the designing of a solar tracking system which is based on Arduino UNO and which provides movement of solar panel in the direction of maximum sun light incident. As a result of which we get more efficient system which is compact, low cost as well as easy to use.
Optimization of Solar Energy Production using PLC and SCADAijtsrd
This paper focuses on the maximizing the solar energy produced by Solar cells through the development of such a Sun-Tracking system that can be implemented using PLC and SCADA. The developed tracking system is innovative in relation to the usual sun tracking systems available in the market. In fact, the developed solution has many advantages in relation to similar existing devices, as this system can automatically work in order to optimize the energy production of photovoltaic cells as we know that in case of fixed Solar cells, the efficiency is very poor. This efficiency of power generation by Solar cells can be increased using this system, so that as the position of sun changes, the position of Solar cell is automatically adjusted by using stepper motors. An experimental prototype was built and field results have proven the good performance of the developed tracking system. Abhishek Kumar Chambel | Er. Bharti Sood "Optimization of Solar Energy Production using PLC & SCADA" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-1 , December 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18912.pdf
http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electrical-engineering/18912/optimization-of-solar-energy-production-using-plc-and-scada/abhishek-kumar-chambel
Design and implementation of smart electronic solar tracker based on ArduinoTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Demand of energy increases in the global and exponential exhaustion is favored of resources by
fossil fuel for electricity production with the new systems development. Compared with all other remainder
energies, the specialist sun energy is the most bountiful energy and it's typically easy to be changed into
electrical energy. The main thing of using solar panel is to produce electrical energy from sun's energy but
the optimum energy can be generated by tracking solar panel due to the sun movement from east to west.
The problem can be solved by proposed systems where the sun tracking by solar panel that based on high
intensity of sun ray. This paper concentrates on tracking the sun by using servo motor coupled with solar
panel. So that, the largest quantity of sun light at the incident panel along the day at any time is better than
that for method of fixed panel array which is less efficient. The microcontroller Arduino (mode UNO) was
programmed by using C++ language while the track of sun light processing was implemented by using
light depending resistor (LDR), Chip IC H-bridge and microcontroller Arduino (UNO) circuits have been
designed by using Proteus software. By circuit design and sun tracking control process, the cost reduction
has been improved and high amount of energy was saved when implemented this system.
In this paper, the artificial neural network (ANN) has been utilized for rotating machinery faults detection and classification. First, experiments were performed to measure the lateral vibration signals of laboratory test rigs for rotor-disk-blade when the blades are defective. A rotor-disk-blade system with 6 regular blades and 5 blades with various defects was constructed. Second, the ANN was applied to classify the different x- and y-axis lateral vibrations due to different blade faults. The results based on training and testing with different data samples of the fault types indicate that the ANN is robust and can effectively identify and distinguish different blade faults caused by lateral vibrations in a rotor. As compared to the literature, the present paper presents a novel work of identifying and classifying various rotating blade faults commonly encountered in rotating machines using ANN. Experimental data of lateral vibrations of the rotor-disk-blade system in both x- and y-directions are used for the training and testing of the network.
Design of Dual Axis Solar Tracker System Based on Fuzzy Inference Systems ijscai
Electric power is a basic need in today’s life. Due to the extensive usage of power, there is a need to look
for an alternate clean energy source. Recently many researchers have focused on the solar energy as a
reliable alternative power source. Photovoltaic panels are used to collect sun radiation and convert it into
electrical energy. Most of the photovoltaic panels are deployed in a fixed position, they are inefficient as
they are fixed only at a specific angle. The efficiency of photovoltaic systems can be considerably increased
with an ability to change the panels angel according to the sun position. The main goal of such systems is
to make the sun radiation perpendicular to the photovoltaic panels as much as possible all the day times.
This paper presents a dual axis design for a fuzzy inference approach-based solar tracking system. The
system is modeled using Mamdani fuzzy logic model and the different combinations of ANFIS modeling.
Models are compared in terms of the correlation between the actual testing data output and their
corresponding forecasted output. The Mean Absolute Percent Error and Mean Percentage Error are used
to measure the models error size. In order to measure the effectiveness of the proposed models, we
compare the output power produced by a fixed photovoltaic panels with the output which would be
produced if the dual-axis panels are used. Results show that dual-axis solar tracker system will produce
22% more power than a fixed panels system.
KEYWORDS
Fuzzy, Membership function, Universe of discourse, PV, ANFIS, DC motor, FLC.
1. INTRODUCTION
Fuzzy logic can be viewed as an extension of classical logical
An IntelligentMPPT Method For PV Systems Operating Under Real Environmental C...theijes
The sun irradiance (G) and temperature (T) are the two main factors that affect the output power gained from the photovoltaic (PV) DC–DC converter. Therefore, to enhance the performance of the overall system; a mechanism to track the maximum power point (MPP) is required. Conventional maximum power point tracking approaches, such as observation and perturbation technique, experience difficulty in identifying the true MPP. Therefore, intelligent systems including fuzzy logic controllers (FLC) are introduced for the maximum power point tracking system (MPPT). The selection of the membership functions (MFs) and the fuzzy sets (FSs) numbers are crucial in the performance of the FLC based MPPT. Accordingly, this work presents numerous adaptive neuro-fuzzy systems to automatically adjustthe fuzzy logic controller membership functions as an alternative to the trial and error approach, which waste time and effort in MPPT design. For this purpose an adaptive neuro-fuzzy system is developed in MATLAB/Simulink to determine suitable MFs and the FSs for the fuzzy logic controller. The effects of different types of MFs and the FSs are deeply investigated using real data collected from the rooftop PV system. The investigations show that the fuzzy logic controller with a triangular membership function and seven fuzzy setsprovides the best results
This paper presents a fast and accurate fault detection, classification and direction discrimination algorithm of transmission lines using one-dimensional convolutional neural networks (1D-CNNs) that have ingrained adaptive model to avoid the feature extraction difficulties and fault classification into one learning algorithm. A proposed algorithm is directly usable with raw data and this deletes the need of a discrete feature extraction method resulting in more effective protective system. The proposed approach based on the three-phase voltages and currents signals of one end at the relay location in the transmission line system are taken as input to the proposed 1D-CNN algorithm. A 132kV power transmission line is simulated by Matlab simulink to prepare the training and testing data for the proposed 1D- CNN algorithm. The testing accuracy of the proposed algorithm is compared with other two conventional methods which are neural network and fuzzy neural network. The results of test explain that the new proposed detection system is efficient and fast for classifying and direction discrimination of fault in transmission line with high accuracy as compared with other conventional methods under various conditions of faults.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
The Short and Long Term Peace Strategies: "Anglophone" Crisis, Cameroonijtsrd
Just like in Ethiopia, the unrest in the Republic of Cameroon is rooted in the countrys history, which dates back to many years. This paper seeks to analyze the institutional and attitudinal elements on the way forward for the restoration to normalcy of the state of affairs within the national territory. It is not a recipe for apportioning blames but of principles and options to a pacific settlement of disputes within the national territory. Maxwell N. Achu ""The Short and Long Term Peace Strategies: “Anglophone†Crisis, Cameroon"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23512.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/23512/the-short-and-long-term-peace-strategies-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C5%93anglophone-crisis-cameroon/maxwell-n-achu
Development of a Smart Mechatronic Tracking System to Enhance Solar Cell Pane...IJMER
Two degree of freedom Mechatronic solar tracking system was developed in the present study
to improve the performance of photovoltaic cell panels. The present tracking control algorithm was
applied on a small prototype, simulating a solar cells panel tracking system, designed and constructed in
this work. The Mechatronic tracking hardware section consists mainly of a commercial arduino microcontroller
with built in, two servo motor drivers, data input/output, and micro processor modules. Other
components of the tracking hardware are, servo motors actuators and four LDR light intensity sensors. A
feedback control soft ware program, designed and constructed in the present work, enables the solar
tracker to automatically compensate for the sun location’s change to enhance the PV cells efficiency. The
LDR sensors are employed to continuously detect the sun rays intensity at four, light exposed isolated
positions, representing up-right, up-left, down-right, and down-left sides of the solar panel. LDRs data is
hence sent to the control software. The data is used to decide proper actuation actions and send them to
the servomotors to redirect the PV cells panel perpendicular to incident sun rays. Sensors and actuation
signals are exchanged via the in/out data module of the Arduino package. Results of the present
experimental work show that using the present tracking system increases the PV cell out power by about
38% compared with that of a fixed collector
Arduino based Dual Axis Smart Solar TrackerIJAEMSJORNAL
Solar energy is rapidly advancing as an important means of renewable energy resource. It is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaic, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis. Trackers direct solar panels or modules toward the sun. These devices change their orientation throughout the day to follow the sun’s path to maximize energy capture. The use of solar trackers can increase electricity production by around a third, and some claim by as much as 40% in some regions, compared with modules at a fixed angle. In any solar application, the conversion efficiency is improved when the modules are continually adjusted to the optimum angle as the sun traverses the sky. This paper presents the designing of a solar tracking system which is based on Arduino UNO and which provides movement of solar panel in the direction of maximum sun light incident. As a result of which we get more efficient system which is compact, low cost as well as easy to use.
Wifi Enabled Smart Farm with Monitoring and Energy Theft Control SystemNeha Noren Parshad
Automated irrigation system focuses on optimizing the
usage of water in agricultural land. In this project, we aim at
establishing a very fast communication link with the farmer. This
makes it easy for the farmers to monitor the soil and the crop
conditions from very far locations. Because of its low cost, the
system has the potential to be useful in water limited
geographically isolated area. This system implement the
automated irrigation and it sends the sensed value of soil
temperature, moisture and humidity level to the concerned
person through wifi.
Fabrication and Performance Analysis of Solar Tracking System by Using By-Pas...IJMREMJournal
Energy is a burning issue that almost every person experience now a days. Energy demand increases exponentially
since a decade. Due to the global warming and it’s threatening impacts on human life. Therefore, to overcome
such disastrous impacts on the planet, renewable energy resources play vital role now a days. Solar energy is one
of the vastest available renewable energy resources around the globe, but the main issue is its poor efficiency.
Pakistan is facing energy shortage that can be compensated through solar power and the need is to design a project
that maximizes its efficiency. So, the research is mainly focused on improving efficiency of solar panels against
shading loss by using different techniques. In this research, different results will be obtained and compared with
different techniques which are LDR based solar tracking system, by-pass diodes technology and super capacitors.
Fabrication of solar tracker is based on Microcontroller that drives L298N driver to operate stepper motor.
Understanding the Impact and Challenges of Corona Crisis on Education Sector...vivatechijri
n the second week of March 2020, governments of all states in a country suddenly declared
shutting down of all colleges and schools for a temporary period of time as an immediate measure to stop the
spread of pandemic that is of novel corona virus. As the days pass by almost close to a month with no certainty
when they will again reopen. Due to pandemic like this an alarm bells have started sounding in the field of
education where a huge impact can be seen on teaching and learning process as well as on the entire education
sector in turn. The pandemic disruption like this is actually gave time to educators of today to really think about
the sector. Through the present research article, the author is highlighting on the possible impact of
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Automated Solar Tracking System for Efficient Energy Utilization
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Automated Solar Tracking System for Efficient Energy Utilization
Sagar Panchal1
, Omkar Navalkar2
, Prasad Jadhav3
, Prof. Nutan Malekar4
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(Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, India)
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(Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, India)
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(Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, India)
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(Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, India)
Abstract: This paper proposes a project that involves an automated solar tracking system which will make use
of LDR’s to track the position of sun. The output of LDR’s will be compared and analyzed to provide correct
alignment of the solar panel. Also another tracking technique is being implemented along, which uses the relation
of sun earth position at a given location. This telemetric data is given to microcontroller which will drive the
motors to align the solar panel. This is useful during cloudy weather and rainy days when it is difficult to check
the position of sun. Solar panels give output efficiency of around 15% to 20% based on the type of panel. The use
of solar tracking system increases it to a range of about 30% to 35%. This project further involves use of reflective
sheets on the sides of solar panel which will concentrate the reflected rays on the panel. Due to this the efficiency
is further increased around 40%. This project is a cost effective solution for stationary solar systems to increase
efficiency.
Keywords – Solar, Tracking, LDR, Dual-axis, Electricity
1. INTRODUCTION
Solar Energy is a clean energy source available in abundance throughout the world. This energy can be
converted to electrical form by means of Solar panels. The conversion efficiency of solar panels is about 20%.
The use of solar trackers raise the efficiency to around 35%-40%, thereby providing more output power [1]. Solar
trackers are devices, which align the panels almost perpendicular to the direction of falling sun-rays. This is done
because of the fact that solar panels give out maximum output only when incident rays are perpendicular to them.
The basic types of Solar tracking system include single axis and dual axis. Single axis system provide
movement only in one direction i.e. either horizontal or vertical [3]. Dual axis systems provide movement in both
the directions and are hence more efficient and reliable. Both these systems work on the outputs provided by the
photo sensors which are compared and analyzed to provide the necessary data for the correction of alignment.
Another type of tracking system is independent of photo sensors. Instead they work based on the
telemetry data of the sun earth position [21]. This data is stored in the micro-controller and is used to provide
alignment. Solar energy provides suitable solution to meet the growing need of electricity [13].
2. BACKGROUND
Before proceeding with the design of a tracking system, it is a dominant step to determine the background
data on solar panels and the techniques to harvest the solar energy. To get relevant data about the same, a brief
review of solar systems with the losses incurred as well as an examination of the current tracking systems was
done. The review showed that there are two tracking techniques that are in practice based on the way the path of
the sun is determined [19]. These techniques are fixed control algorithms and dynamic control algorithms.
The fixed tracking system passively determines the path of the sun based on the time, day, month and
year of the location where it is used. The dynamic tracking algorithm works by actively calculating the position
of the sun with the help of sensors. Both systems have a similar control system consisting of motors, sensors
which are directed by some analog or digital control circuitry [17].
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3. DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Fig. 1 Block diagram of the system
The design methodology of the system starts by determining the application purpose. Once the
application purpose of the system is fixed, the power requirements of the entire system is calculated. This helps
to select the appropriate solar panel that scan drive the entire system. While doing this, power required by the
motors used; the load connected to the supply as well as the battery ratings are considered. Another crucial
parameter is the time duration for which the power is required. The proposed system consists of a Solar panel,
photovoltaic sensors, battery, motors, microcontroller and the appliance to be used.
Fig. 2 Flowchart for active mode
The solar panel will be placed on a movable frame attached to the servo motors. On each edge of the
solar panel, a LDR will be placed at the centre. The output power of Solar panel is given to a battery charging
circuit, which is further connected to a battery for storage of power. This stored power is used to drive the motor
systems, the microcontroller as well as the lamp. The output of LDR’s is given to the microcontroller where
processing and comparison of data will take place. Based on the output of processed data, the microcontroller will
provide command to drive the motor system for correction of position of the solar panel. The microcontroller will
continuously keep on checking for the LDR outputs and the entire cycle keeps on repeating.
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4. WORKING
For the active mode, Output data from Sensor pairs is taken as input. This data is converted from analog
to digital so that it can be processed. This data is given to microprocessor where it will compare the output
readings. If the output of both the LDR’s in sensor pair is same, it will remain static and keep on continuously
checking the output data from LDR’s. If the output of both the LDR’s in sensor pair is not same, it will drive the
corresponding motor to correct the position.
For the passive mode, firstly the location where the system is to be used is decided. Based on the location
the telemetric data of the sun earth position which includes the azimuth and elevation angle is sought for and fed
to the microcontroller. This telemetric data is used to degree of movement of the solar panel. For Mumbai location
the value is around 19 degrees. So after every predetermined time duration, the microcontroller will command the
motors to provide a movement of 19 degrees from east to west side. This is continued until sunset. After sunset,
the panel is again positioned facing east side, which is towards the sunrise for the next day.
5. RESULTS
The experimental results of the LDR tracking for the active mode of operation is given below. Based on
the output readings of the LDR, motors are accordingly driven until the point when both the LDR pairs have same
output. The table shown below gives an estimate of how the tracking system is implemented.
Table 1: Motor driving in North-South direction
Table 2: Motor driving in East-West direction
6. MERITS OF SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEM
1. Improved solar panel output and efficiency.
2. Electricity generated using tracking system is higher than stationary systems
3. Multiple types of tracking systems are available based on the application needs.
4. Space requirement of tracking system is very less.
5. Advancements in technology has minimized the maintenance required
6. Generation of more electricity means cost to be paid for electricity service is reduced.
LDR 1-North LDR 2-South
Motor drive
direction
495 444 South
364 393 North
352 344 South
336 342 North
327 327 No Change
459 383 South
529 580 South
LDR 1-East LDR 2-West
Motor drive
direction
347 369 East
382 371 West
355 363 East
396 396 No Change
401 405 East
411 411 No Change
422 427 East
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7. LIMITATIONS OF SOLAR TRACKERS
1. Expenditure for maintenance is slightly expensive.
2. Not suitable for regions which receive snowfall for most time of the year.
3. Initial setup cost is high for tracking systems and solar panels
4. Higher accuracy leads to higher system complexity affecting performance.
5. Timely human inspection is required.
8. FUTURE SCOPE
The algorithm proposed in this paper can be extended to real time monitoring by keeping an account of
all the readings and data in different weather conditions. This will aid performance improvements and help to
determine efficiency in various regions of installations. Also use of high end solar panels such as concentrated
photovoltaic cell panels can be used to further improve efficiency [15]. Concentrated photovoltaic panels provide
around 35-40% efficiency which is better than the normal panels. The various loss factors in the system resulting
from shadows and dust can be analyzed to resolve them.
Cost efficiency and durability of the system can be analyzed by research on the advancements of the
components used. Future work can also include use of hybrid systems collectively to overcome the drawbacks of
one another. This will ensure minimal system losses as well as better compatibility to application usage and
maintenance resulting in improved efficiency. The various hybrid systems that can be fused with solar energy are
wind energy and tidal energy. Hybrid systems will collectively enhance the system performance leading to
increased number of applications [16].
9. CONCLUSION
In this thesis, we are proposing a sun tracking system. After examining the information obtained in the
literature survey section, it can be said that the proposed sun tracking solar array system is a feasible method of
maximizing the energy received from solar radiation. The controller circuit used to implement this system has
been designed with a minimal number of components for simple assembly. By using stepper motors, accurate
tracking of the sun is achieved by keeping a track of the current solar position with respect to its original position.
Automated solar tracking systems acts as an efficient means of harnessing the solar energy. It is also
observed that about 8% of more energy is harvested by using a tracking system compared to a fixed system. This
percentage can be improved by considering and resolving various loss factors by means of hybrid systems.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research presented in this paper is supported by the staff of Electronics and Telecommunication
department of VIVA Institute of technology. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all of them who
helped us in this research and provide us an opportunity to take an initiative to provide a solution for the challenges
faced in the industry. We are highly indebted to our guide Prof. Nutan Malekar to share their expertise and provide
support for this research. Our thanks and appreciation for all our classmates who willingly helped us for this
project research.
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