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A COST EFFECTIVE SOLAR TRACKER AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR UTILITY SCALE PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATIONS | |
Sadineni, Suresh B.; Madala, Srikanth; Boehm, Robert F. | |
通讯作者 | Sadineni, Suresh B. |
会议名称 | 6th ASME International Conference on Energy Sustainability |
会议日期 | JUL 23-26, 2012 |
会议地点 | San Diego, CA |
英文摘要 | A prototype of an integrated tracking and monitoring system is developed and experimentally tested in the environmental conditions of the desert south-west. This system hardware design incorporates both the tracker control and performance monitoring mechanism. A wireless communication protocol coupled with internet transmits the PV panel performance information collected by the electronic sensors to a remote user who can monitor the system performance. The initial experimental results of this newly developed system performance are presented. Finally, an economic analysis is conducted to evaluate the applicability of the current system to a utility scale installation. The preliminary results suggest that there would be a 25% average increase in solar insolation received by a single-axis tracking surface over a fixed (tilt equal to local latitude) surface during the winter months. Although, limited amount of data is available for typical summer days, results from September days suggest an increase in solar insolation as high as 38%. Also, such an integrated tracking and monitoring system will yield in better monitoring resolution due to monitoring at the string level as opposed to central inverter level in the central inverter type PV power plant topology. The monitoring sub-system design incorporates cutting edge electronic sensors. The measurements using these sensors were compared against the measurement through a programmable D.C load. The difference between both the power measurements is well within a median of 5-12% suggesting a good agreement between both the measurements. |
英文关键词 | PV plant monitoring PV monitoring solar tracker wireless communications remote PV monitoring performance monitoring string monitoring utility scale PV plant central inverters Photovoltaics Nevada Las Vegas Experimental Comparison Economic Analysis |
来源出版物 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY - 2012, PTS A AND B |
出版年 | 2012 |
页码 | 955-967 |
ISBN | 978-0-7918-4481-6 |
出版者 | AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS |
类型 | Proceedings Paper |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | CPCI-S |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000335710300111 |
WOS关键词 | OPTICAL-PERFORMANCE ; PANELS ; SUN ; MODULES ; TURKEY |
WOS类目 | Energy & Fuels ; Engineering, Mechanical |
WOS研究方向 | Energy & Fuels ; Engineering |
资源类型 | 会议论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/300924 |
作者单位 | Univ Nevada, Energy Res Ctr, Dept Mech Engn, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sadineni, Suresh B.,Madala, Srikanth,Boehm, Robert F.. A COST EFFECTIVE SOLAR TRACKER AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR UTILITY SCALE PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATIONS[C]:AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS,2012:955-967. |
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