THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STANDBY SOLAR POWER BY SYNCHRONISER WITH SOLAR ENERGY TRACKING MECHANISM

BY

EHIAGWINA, FREDERICK OJIEMHENDE
OLATINWO, LUKEMAN OLANIRAN
SALAUDEEN, WASIU O.
OJO-JOSEPH, B. T.

October, 2018

ABSTRACT

A solar tracker is a generic term used to describe devices that orient solar panel towards the sun. In flat panel, photovoltaic applications trackers are used to minimize the angle of incidence between the incoming light and a photovoltaic panel. This increases the amount of energy produced from a fixed amount of installed power generating capacity of photovoltaic panel. This proposal presents a solar tracking system with servo motor and a solar inverter. The system consists of solar panel always facing the direction of a sun with the aid of solar tracker mechanism controlled by a micro controller programming written in c language. The purpose of this solar tracking system is to maximize the power generation from the photovoltaic panel. The hardware design involved solar panel, motor controller circuit to control the servo and circuit converter comprising the voltage output from the solar panel which is stabilized by circuit converter before used by inverter application. The developed system will be pollution free, and the PV installations can operate for many years with little maintenance after the initial set up cost. They are extremely cheap when compared to existing Power technologies. The developed system is capable of improving trapped solar power by at least 25%.