Citation
Ahmad, Salsabila and Shafie, Suhaidi and Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin
(2013)
Power feasibility of a low power consumption solar tracker.
Procedia Environmental Sciences, 17.
pp. 494-502.
ISSN 1878-0296
Abstract
This paper discusses on the generated power and the power consumption of an open-loop time and date based sun positioning solar collector system under three weather conditions; sunny and clear day, cloudy day and heavy overcast and rainy day under Malaysian tropical climate at location E100°11’, N6°26’, The two-axes tracking system used a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to maneuver a photovoltaic solar module based on 10° altitude angle tracking and 1° azimuth angle tracking. The daily percentage of power consumed during a clear and sunny day from the tracking motors and controller is 0.05% and 5.84%, respectively. Overall, the system consumed 5.89% of the total generated power.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering Institute of Advanced Technology |
| DOI Number: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2013.02.064 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Keywords: | Dual-axes; Solar tracking; Open-loop system |
| Depositing User: | Nabilah Mustapa |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2015 02:30 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2015 02:30 |
| Altmetrics: | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=psasir.upm.edu.my&doi=10.1016/j.proenv.2013.02.064 |
| URI: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28685 |
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