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Performance Evaluation of An Azimuth Tracking Prismatic Daylighting System (방위각 추적식 프리즘형 집광조명시스템 성능평가)

  • Sung, Tae-Kyung;Lee, Chung-Sik;Lee, Eul-Young;Park, Yeon-Min;Joung, Che-Bong;Kim, Byung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.129-137
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    • 2012
  • This thesis introduced an azimuth tracking prismatic daylighting system. The system improved several issues of the previous passive prismatic daylighting system: low efficiency at sunrise and sunset, glare effect and polarized. The system was developed to track the movement of sun with azimuth tracking device, and it has its own power from the attached solar cells. We compared the with previous passive one in terms with system efficiency and daylighting factors(DF).

A Study on AC/DC Power Converter of Energy Harvesting for Considered to Solar Position Tracking Control (태양광 위치 추적 제어를 고려한 에너지 Harvesting AC/DC 전력 변환기 구동에 관한 연구)

  • Na, Seung-Kwon;Ku, Gi-Jun
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.56-66
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, the solar cell need the characteristic interpreting because the solar cell changes greatly according to the isolation, temperature and load in the photovoltaic development. Moreover, to get many energy in photovoltaic development need the position tracking of the sun according to the environment change and it is necessary to control the output of solar cells up to the time. Simulation and composed microprocessor and sensor chip an power conversion system with boost converter to experiment results are performed to prove the analysis of the converter operation, and to show the possibility of energy harvesting and photovoltaic development need the position tracking small capacitance, the boost rate of boost converter was similar to 167 percent.

A Study on the Tracking Method for Solar Module to Derive Optimum Performance (최적 발전성능 도출을 위한 태양광모듈 추적방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yongjin;Lee, Jong Soo;Chung, Yu-Gun;Kim, Jeong Tai
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.113-118
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    • 2012
  • The photovoltaic is one of the most important sustainable technologies appliable to architectures. The power performance mainly depends on the installation conditions of them. This study aims to evaluate the power performance of photovoltaic system by the installation conditions, the tracking methods and reflecting mirrors. For the study, the Solar Pro computer simulations have been conducted on installation angles, solar azimuth and solar altitude. Also, the field mock-up tests are performed to of its application to verify the simulation results. Both the results of the experiment and the simulation have proved that the efficiency of 90-degree fixed angle method was higher than that of 30-degree fixed angle, the efficiency of altitude tracking was better than that of azimuth tracking method, and changing both the altitude and the azimuth together is more efficient rather than the shortened tracing way. In addition, the light-concentrating method in which the incidence angle of the sun is controlled by an adhered reflector has been analyzed to have better efficiency than the general method of tracing according to the orbit of the sun. Therefore, this thesis is expected to offer the basic data to set a more effective tracing-type of photovoltaic power generation system in the future. For this, more researches are to be conducted hereafter on a high efficiency drive motor and the establishment of an economic system.

Development of Tracking Algorithm for Floating Photovoltaic System

  • So, Byung-Moon;Im, Ik-Tae
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2019
  • Since floating facility with mooring system can be moved and rotated by wind or other environmental variables, the error in azimuthal angle must be compensated using a GPS receiver and geo-magnetic sensor. Accordingly, when an existing photovoltaic tracking algorithm is applied to a floating photovoltaic system, it is difficult to do the optimal solar tracking. In this paper, an effective azimuthal angle algorithm is develop for the photovoltaic tracking in floating condition. In order to verify the developed algorithm, the prototype of the floating photovoltaic system is manufactured and the developed algorithm is applied to the system. The algorithm shows a good tracking feasibility on the prototype.

Tracking Method of Inclination-dependent 2-axis Solar Tracker (경사각 종속형 2축식 태양광 추적기의 추적방식)

  • Hong, Jung-Hoon;Kim, Eun-Sung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.11
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    • pp.180-187
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    • 2013
  • The dinger in solar generation is the amount of sunlight which the solar cells absorb. Various types of solar trackers, which rotate themselves in order to make the solar cells face the sun as much as possible, have been developed, and especially the method of tracking with two axes has greatly contributed in increasing the generation amount at work sites. Among theses 2-axis solar trackers, the inclination-dependent 2-axis solar tracker are widely utilized for its advantages of requiring less initial investment and easy maintenance due to a solid structure. However, the drawback is that the generation efficiency is relatively low because of the structural restriction that limits the rotation angle, thus making it less efficient when tracking the sun. This paper proposes a method to increase the generation efficiency of the inclination-dependent 2-axis solar tracker. It also contains the derived equations needed for precise controlling along with a method to keep tracking with the other axis even when one has reached its angle limit. To confirm that the proposed method increases the amount of incidence onto the solar cells, formulas needed for operation on the proposed method and tracking the exact position of the sun are derived, and applying this to the quarterly data of Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute it shows maximum over 11.1% more incidence compared to existing methods.

Comparison Photovoltaic Power System for Installation Method of the Array using Simulation Tool (Simulation Tool을 이용한 어레이 설치 방법에 따른 태양광발전시스템 비교)

  • Im, J.H.;Moon, E.A.;Park, J.M.;Kim, D.G.;Cho, G.B.;Baek, H.L.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.1396-1397
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    • 2011
  • The world has problem of petrifaction energy exhaustion and environment pollution. We are looking up various solution plans regarding this problem. Solar power is one of the solution to solve the energy shortage problem. But solar power is affected by insolation. So we study tracking solar power system for the generation of electricity more. In this paper, we compared fixed solar power system with horizontal and vertical tracking solar power system. Two method were on he Maximum Power Point(MPP) using Solar pro.

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Development and Evaluation of 1 Layer Polar Motion Control System for Solar Tracker (태양광 추적장치용 1층 구조의 극좌표 운동기구 개발 및 평가)

  • Kim, Sun Ho;Kim, Byung Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2010
  • Finding sufficient supplies of clean energy for future is one of the society's most important challenges according to technologies. Alternative renewable energy source such as sun energy can be substituted for exceeding human energy need. The main factor affect to solar performance is a collective intensity. To enhance intensity, suitable equipment is a solar tracker. This paper presents design and evaluation of 1 layer polar motion control system for solar tracker suitable for building integrated system. To evaluation of tracking accuracy and adaptability, solar tracker with 64 links is implemented. In experimental results, the accuracy of tracking has under ${\pm}0.0287^{\circ}$ and the thickness has under 140mm.

Additional power conservation in 200W power plant with the application of high thermal profiled cooling liquid & improved deep learning based maximum power point tracking algorithm

  • Raj G. Chauhan;Saurabh K. Rajput;Himmat Singh
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.185-202
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    • 2022
  • This research work focuses to design and simulate a 200W solar power system with electrical power conservation scheme as well as thermal power conservation modeling to improve power extraction from solar power plant. Many researchers have been already designed and developed different methods to extract maximum power while there were very researches are available on improving solar power thermally and mechanically. Thermal parameters are also important while discussing about maximizing power extraction of any power plant. A specific type of coolant which have very high boiling point is proposed to be use at the bottom surface of solar panel to reduce the temperature of panel in summer. A comparison between different maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique and proposed MPPT technique is performed. Using this proposed Thermo-electrical MPPT (TE-MPPT) with Deep Learning Algorithm model 40% power is conserved as compared to traditional solar power system models.

Tracking System for Optimum Solar Power System of Widely Separated Cave (고립원격지 동굴 전원용 태양광발전 광 추적 시스템)

  • Suh, Oh-Ji;Soh, Dea-Wha
    • Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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    • no.89
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2008
  • Solar energy is most green and clean, unlimited and sustainable energy source on the earth. It is almost 97% of imported consumer energy in Korea. Because of resource poor nation, it is necessary to do their best to make alternative energy to allot their deficiency of the matter in hand of energy resources of petroleum. In a point of view of this problems, the natural solar energy should be improved by any methods as much, possible as we need. Photovoltaic generation with solar tracking system for obtaining optimal power is one of most benefit equipment to improve power of solar-cell panel producing clean electric power efficiently. Solar tracker is a device for orienting a solar photovoltaic panel toward the sun perpendicularly to sunlight, especially in widely separated place. For this reason, we are very interested in developing the equipment system of tracker, specially in solar cell applications, obtaining a high degree of accuracy to ensure that the optimal sunlight could be directed precisely against to the powered device. As a result, it was obtained of 12.46 volts at 90$^\circ$toward solar panel and 9.44 volts at 45$^\circ$, furthermore, improved efficiency more than 30% of average output voltage between tracker system (12.41V) and fixed system (8.55V), respectively. It is also very useful for optimum power system of widely separated cave.

A Novel of Solar Heat Collection Device Prototype using Parabolic based on Solar Light Tracking (태양광 추적기반의 파라볼릭을 이용한 태양열 집열장치 프로토타입에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Se-Hoon;Sim, Chun-Bo;Park, Sung-Kyun;Kim, Jong-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.411-420
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    • 2016
  • Efforts have continued in recent years to research and develop new alternative energy sources to replace coal and oil. These days interest is exploding in new pollution-free renewable energy due to the rising prices of finite energy sources. In the field of solar energy, one of new renewable energy that has been actively researched and commercialized, research efforts have been focused on solar light energy, whose efficiency has, however, reached a saturation point already. Thus, this paper proposed a solar tracking-type parabolic heat collection device to utilize solar thermal energy rather than solar light energy. The proposed device was designed in a parabolic form to collect solar heat effectively. The investigator made its prototype by incorporating a five-axis censor-based solar tracking technology in it to sense changes to the location of the sun according to the seasons and periods. In addition, an administrator interface was designed and implemented for the efficient management of heat collection device.