Development Of Sun Tracking Solar Panel With Self-Cleaning System Using Arduino Uno

Heng, Aik Yuen (2018) Development Of Sun Tracking Solar Panel With Self-Cleaning System Using Arduino Uno. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Sunlight is the significant natural resource that provided a lot of benefit to the world in various of field and this resource can produce sustainable energy which is solar energy.Among the renewable energy in this world,solar energy provides a good potential for transformation into electric energy.For now,the community have a lot of the solar tracking panel which produce a lot of electricity for their application.However,the efficiency of the energy gain by the solar panel is not maximize.This is because sometimes there have some obstacle object dropped on the panel board to block the sunlight.Solar panel that blocked by obstacle object will not receive maximum light source to produce full power. Not with standing the foregoing to maximize the efficiency of the solar panel and energy harvesting,an innovative improvement can implement through this papers. This paper will develop a prototype sun solar tracking system.The prototype will be using a brush to clean the obstacle which to make the solar panel received all the possible sunlight.In this project,ultrasonic sensor and the LDR are the main component to let solar tracker receives input sources to clean the obstacles and face toward the sunlight.This prototype will bring the benefit to the community to reduce manpower and time on cleaning the surface of panel.By doing analysis on the system,the efficiency and energy harvesting for the solar tracker with self-cleaning system has shown increased about 31.84% compared to normal tracker.In short,this solar tracker prototype with the self-cleaning system has a good performance to maximize the energy harvesting.

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