Development of an electronic equipment managed by software on PC for controlling and driving of multiple bi-axial solar trackers in photovoltaic solar plants

Author

Visconti, P. ; Costantini, P. ; Orlando, C. ; Cavalera, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Innovation Eng., Univ. of Salento - Lecce, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

10-13 June 2015

Firstpage

1328

Lastpage

1333

Abstract

This paper describes the realization of an electronic apparatus for controlling and driving a bi-axial solar tracker system of a PV plant, managed by a PC software application with an user-friendly graphical interface. The designed software is able to calculate the sun circadian orbit and consequently to move the solar panels in order to maintain the panel´s surface always perpendicular to solar rays, improving the efficiency in energy production. In particular, the object of this work consists in optimizing an existing, from us designed, fully-hardware apparatus which didn´t allow a simple and rapid plant management, completely replacing the Master electronic board with the designed software, able to communicate by PC with Slave electronic boards for tracker motors driving.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; motor drives; photovoltaic power systems; power system control; solar cell arrays; PC software; electronic apparatus; electronic equipment; master electronic board; multiple bi-axial solar trackers control; multiple bi-axial solar trackers drive; photovoltaic solar plants; slave electronic boards; solar panels; solar rays; sun circadian orbit; tracker motors driving; user-friendly graphical interface; Azimuth; Earth; Photovoltaic systems; Software; Sun; Tracking; efficiency; electronic equipment; photovoltaic plant; solar tracker;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7992-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165363

Filename

7165363