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Energy Generating Self-cooling Greenhouse (열-전기 병합 에너지 생산 겸 자체 냉각 온실)

  • Kleinwachter, Jurgen;Chung, Mo;Kim, Jong-Sung
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.584-587
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    • 2006
  • An energy generating greenhouse based on fluoropolymer envelope and fresnel lens is proposed. The outstanding properties of the fluoropolymer films make them very suitable for large scale solar applications. Extremely high optical transmission over the whole solar spectrum, combined with mechanical strength, and durability allows us to design a highly optimized greenhouses for both plant growing and energy generation. Systems such as photovoltaic triple junction cells are especially attractive since they have up to 35% efficiency with much less cell material when the sun beam is focused with concentrators such as fresnel lenses. Cooling such devices will enhance the efficiency and provide useful thermal energy that could be further utilized for various applications depending on the local demands. This article introduces the basic ideas and principles of the energy generating greenhouses as a first step towards the actual deployment of such systems under Korean environment.

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A Study on the Design of Wired and Wireless Communication System for Solar Panel Optimizer (태양광 패널 최적기의 유선 및 무선 통신 시스템 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, Oh
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we have designed a solar photovoltaic system to attach solar photovoltaic modules to each module and develop the best efficiency in each module. The efficiency of the designed solar panel optimizer was more than 99.27% and MPPT efficiency of 99.66%. In addition, the monitoring of power generation and abnormal operation phenomenon in each optimum period and tracking for failure location of specific photovoltaic module have improved the utilization rate of photovoltaic power generation. Wired and wireless communication methods has been proposed to monitor the power generation and operation status of the solar panel optimizer. For this purpose, the RS485 communication was used for wire communication and Zigbee communication was used for wireless communication to monitor the status of each module in real time. It is shown that communication redundancy can be achieved through the proposed method, and the possibility of commercialization is suggested.

A prototype to improve endurance of solar powered aircraft using MPPT and rechargeable battery

  • Leo Paul Amuthan George;Anju Anna Jacob
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2024
  • This paper addresses the enhancement of long-endurance solar-powered aircraft through the integration of a rechargeable battery and Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller. Traditional long-endurance aircraft often rely on non-renewable energy sourcessuch as batteries orjetfuel, contributing to carbon emissions. The proposed system aims to mitigate these environmental impacts by harnessing solar energy and efficiently managing its storage and utilization. The MPPT controller optimizes the power output of photovoltaic cells, enabling simultaneous charging and discharging of the battery for propulsion and servo control. A prototype is presented to illustrate the practical implementation and functionality of the proposed design, marking a promising step towards more sustainable and enduring solar-powered flight.

A Study on High Efficiency DC-AC Inverter of Solar Cell Power System Used in Fire Emergency Equipment (소방 비상용 태양전지 발전시스템의 고효율 직류-교류 인버터 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Kwak, Dong-Kurl;Lee, Bong-Seob
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.15 no.3 s.47
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    • pp.181-187
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    • 2006
  • This paper is proposed to a solar cell power system used in fire emergency equipment. Also it is designed with a high efficiency power converter in order to increase efficiency of power system. The controlling switches used in DC-DC booster chopper and DC-AC inverter are operated with soft switching, which is applied to resonant circuit method to reduce switching loss. The result is that the system gets to high efficiency. In this paper, A detection circuit of maximum power point of solar cell is described in this paper. And the performance evaluations for the photovoltaic power system of high efficiency are examined by the analysis of a new tracking controller with a maximum power $P_{max}$ detection of solar cell.

Wind load analysis for designing a tracking solar generator (추적식 태양광 발전기 설계를 위한 풍하중 해석)

  • Kim, Young-Eun;Jeong, Kyu-Won;Lee, Jae-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.672-680
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    • 2017
  • A solar photovoltaic system is composed of a module mounting structure, supporting trunk, and a control unit that supplies generated electrical power to an external power grid or a load. The efficiency of the system depends on the incident solar light, so the mounting structure is installed to face the sun. However, because the sun always moves, systems that track the sun have better efficiency than fixed systems. The structure experiences wind pressure, snow load, seismic load, and structure weight. The wind pressure has the most serious effect on the structure. The pressure was obtained using finite element method for various gaps between modules and angles between the panel and the ground. The wind pressure is lowest when the gap is zero, and it increases with the inclination angle. Based on the results, a mounting structure module was designed.

A Study on the Charge Controller for Solar Street Lamp by Direct Duty Ratio Control (다이렉트 듀티비 제어에 의한 태양광 가로등용 충전제어기에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Han-Gi;Lim, Jung-Yeol
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.118-123
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    • 2015
  • According to the recent report, solar street lamp connected to a non Maximum Power Point Tracking(MPPT) charger, can lead to a system-wide decline in power output with as much as 30%. This paper proposes the charge controller with direct duty ration control for 250W solar street lamp in order to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic from these output power reduction. This paper covers the Pulse Width Modulation(PWM) controller and power conversion topology and analyze the MPPT method for charge controller. The power conversion part consists of push pull converter based on PWM controller using 8bit MCU in order to have lower manufacturing cost. The PWM controller with direct duty ratio control algorithm is constantly tracking the maximum power point of photovoltaic module and increases energy output power. The test results shows 97.1~97.4% MPPT efficiency and the experimental hardware is implemented based on the solar simulator condition for 241W. Thus, the implemented charge controller shows its feasibility for the real application, especially under solar street lamp.

Characteristics of Photovoltaic Power Generation by Concentration and Tracking (집광추적형 PV발전의 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, B.R.;Park, S.G.;Oh, H.G.;Yu, Y.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.39-40
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    • 2005
  • Photovoltaic Power Generation system occupies an important position as an alternative energy source, converting directly sunlight into electricity,using a photovoltaic cell. The Purpose of this research is to present and confirm the effectiveness of concentration and tracking of sun in photovoltaic power generation. Comparative experiments were carried outwith two rating 75 watt solar modules in $25^{\circ}$ under condition of various times concentration, tracking and plain normal measuring generated voltages, currents and temperatures of back sheet of modules by internet monitoring system to find out which is best in economic sense. The experiments show that output power of concentration and tracking photovoltaic power generation is over 180% more then that of plain normal system.

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Development of New Algorithm for Maximum Power Point Tracking of Photovoltaic system (Photovoltaic 시스템의 MPPT를 위한 새로운 알고리즘 개발)

  • Park, Ki-Tae;Ko, Jae-Sub;Choi, Jung-Sik;Park, Byung-Sang;Chung, Dong-Hwa
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Investigation
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2007
  • This paper is proposed a novel method to approximate the maximum power for a photovoltaic inverter system and tracking method. It is designed for power systems application and utilities. The proposed Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control has the advantage to provide a new simple way to approximate the optimal or rated voltage, the optimal or rated current and maximum power rating produced by a solar panel and the photovoltaic inverter. And this straightforward method will be named linear reoriented coordinates method (LRCM) with the advantage that Pmax and $V_{op}$ can be approximated using the same variable as the dynamic model without using complicate approximations or Taylor series. Furthermore tracking method is improved over 50% photovoltaic efficiency. This paper is proposed MPPT using LRMC and tracking method using weather condition of domestic moderate program technique. This paper is proposed the experimental results to verify the effectiveness of the new methods.

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Comparison study of PV tracking system with sensor and program method (센서방식 및 프로그램 방식에 의한 태양광 발전 추적시스템의 비교 연구)

  • Jang, Mi-Geum;Ko, Jae-Sub;Choi, Jung-Sik;Back, Jung-Woo;Kang, Sung-Jun;Chung, Dong-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.04b
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    • pp.222-224
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    • 2009
  • This paper proposes analysis data of generation efficiency with tracking method for solar tracking. Tracking algorithm of PV generation is divided the sensor method and program method. Generation efficiency is analyzed the three cases 1-high insolation, 2-low insolation, 3-rapidly changing insolation. Proposed data is possible to apply for development of novel algorithm with hybrid tracking method in this paper. Hereby, This paper is proved the benefit of analyzed data.

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Object Tracking Based on Weighted Local Sub-space Reconstruction Error

  • Zeng, Xianyou;Xu, Long;Hu, Shaohai;Zhao, Ruizhen;Feng, Wanli
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.871-891
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    • 2019
  • Visual tracking is a challenging task that needs learning an effective model to handle the changes of target appearance caused by factors such as pose variation, illumination change, occlusion and motion blur. In this paper, a novel tracking algorithm based on weighted local sub-space reconstruction error is presented. First, accounting for the appearance changes in the tracking process, a generative weight calculation method based on structural reconstruction error is proposed. Furthermore, a template update scheme of occlusion-aware is introduced, in which we reconstruct a new template instead of simply exploiting the best observation for template update. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed algorithm are verified by comparing it with some state-of-the-art algorithms quantitatively and qualitatively.