Open AccessCentralized Power Generation of Solar Parks using Wireless Controlling
Author(s) -
Anand M. Sharan,
Mohammad Zamanlou,
Md. Habibur Rahman,
Mohammad A. A. Al-Mehdi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of current engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2347-5161
pISSN - 2277-4106
DOI - 10.14741/ijcet/v.9.3.9
Subject(s) - tracking (education) , process (computing) , power (physics) , solar power , torque , track (disk drive) , wireless , signal (programming language) , computer science , solar energy , tracking system , real time computing , automotive engineering , control theory (sociology) , electrical engineering , engineering , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , physics , control (management) , psychology , pedagogy , quantum mechanics , kalman filter , thermodynamics , programming language , operating system
In this paper, solar energy based power plant is operated from a centralized location. From this location, signal issent to various tracking machines having solar panels mounted on them to track the Sun from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. Thistracking is based on spin rate of the earth, which is not based on local atmospheric conditions; in our case, thetracking is based on global conditions (earth motions around the Sun). This process is different from normally usedphoto-sensor based tracking. The tracking machine is designed such that the torque of the motor is minimum due tomass balancing effect. This process is different from other tracking processes where each machine operatesindependent of each other. In this case likelihood of the occurrence of fault becomes many fold. The maintenance ofsuch plants is very laborious and inefficient.