Design and Development of Solar Tracking System & Cleaning System.

Mechanical Engineering

Solar energy is the most abundant source of energy for all the forms of life on the planet Earth. It is also the basic source for all the sources of energy except Nuclear Energy. But the solar technology has not matured to the extent of the conventional sources of energy. It faces lots of challenges such as high cost, erratic and unpredictable in nature, need for storage and low efficiency. This project aims at increasing the efficiency of solar panel which leads to reduction in plant output and overall plant efficiency. It purposes to develop the “Solar Tracking and Cleaning System”. The Solar Tracking System is a power generating method from sunlight. This method of power generation is simple and is taken from natural resource. This needs only maximum sunlight to generate power. This project helps for power generation by setting the equipment to get maximum sunlight automatically. This system is tracking for maximum intensity of light. When there is decrease in intensity of light, this system automatically changes its direction to get maximum intensity of light .The cleaning system is using to remove the accumulated dust on its surface on a regular basis and maintain the solar panel output the system is robotic system which could have the nozzle from which the water is sprinkle on the panel and thus the panel get clean .This project is also aims to reduce the human involvement in the process of solar panel rotating and cleaning.

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