• DocumentCode
    143717
  • Title

    Design of a solar tracking system for renewable energy

  • Author

    Jeng-Nan Juang ; Radharamanan, Ramachandran

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Mercer Univ., Macon, GA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    3-5 April 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a solar tracking system for renewable energy is designed and built to collect free energy from the sun, store it in the battery, and convert this energy to alternating current (AC). This makes the energy usable in standard-sized homes as a supplemental source of power or as an independent power source. The system is designed to respond to its environment in the shortest amount of time. Any source of error at both the software and the hardware level is eliminated, or at least controlled. The system is tested for real-time responsiveness, reliability, stability, and safety. The system is designed to be stable while it is operating. It is also designed to be resistant to weather, temperature and minor mechanical stresses. Furthermore, the system is fail-safe; it can recover from failures or at least indicate that it is in that condition.
  • Keywords
    invertors; solar power; independent power source; renewable energy; solar tracking system; standard-sized homes; supplemental power source; Actuators; Batteries; Inverters; Lenses; Mirrors; Solar energy; Sun; Solar tracking system; integrated liquid-crystal display (LCD) unit; power inverter; renewable energy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1), 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the
  • Conference_Location
    Bridgeport, CT
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-5232-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASEEZone1.2014.6820643
  • Filename
    6820643