• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.47-59
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• 2016

As the usage of sun tracking system in solar energy utilization facility increases, requirement of more accurate computation of sun position has also been increased. Accordingly, various algorithms to compute the sun position have been proposed in the literature and some of them insist that their algorithms guarantee less than 0.01 degree computational error. However, mostly, the true meaning of accuracy argued in their publication is not clearly explained. In addition to that, they do not clearly state under what condition the accuracy they proposed can be guaranteed. Such ambiguity may induce misunderstanding on the accuracy of the computed sun position and ultimately may make misguided notion on the actual sun tracking system's sun tracking accuracy. This work presents some comments related to the implementation of sun position computational algorithm for the sun tracking system. We first introduce the algorithms proposed in the literature. And then, from sun tracking system user's point of view, we explain the true meaning of accuracy of computed sun position. We also discuss how to select the proper algorithm for the actual implementation. We finally discuss how the input factors used in computation of sun position, like time, position etc, affect the computed sun position accuracy.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.135-141
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• 2008

In this paper a novel tracking system is described, regarding the influence of shadow between array, aimed at improving the efficiency of PV tracking system. Comparing with a building site versus capacity power, domestic solar powers have a limited siting. Therefore, each array interferes with the shadow of other arrays. The loss by influence of those shadow can be compensated for by means of control algorithm of the tracking device. The paper suggests a method controlling an altitude for length which is received the shadow influence of PV array. By using an azimuth of current solar position and the length between arrays, the controller of tracking device is able to calculate the length between actual arrays and make a comparison of the shadow length at a specific time with the length between arrays. When the shadow length is longer than the length between arrays, the controller of tracking device can adjust a position by compensating error altitude of the length between arrays at an altitude of current solar position. In the paper, we develop the control algorithm able to minimize the loss caused by the influence of shadow on the PV tracking system, and compared this with conventional output system. The controller has been tested in the laboratory with proposed algorithm and shows excellent performance

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.388-396
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• 2011

Sun tracking system is the most important subsystem in parabolic dish type solar thermal power plant, since it determines the amount of thermal energy to be collected, thus affects the efficiency of solar thermal power plant most significantly. Various types of sun tracking systems are currently used. Among them, use of photo sensors to located the sun(which is called sensor type) and use of astronomical algorithm to compute the sun position(which is called program type) are two of the mostly used methods. Recently some uses CCD sensor, like CCD camera, which is called image processing type sun tracking system. This work is concerned with the analysis of sun tracking performance of various types of sun tracking systems currently used in the parabolic dish type solar thermal power plant. We first developed a sun tracking error measurement system. Then, we evaluate the performance of five different types of sun tracking systems, sensor type, program type, hybrid type(use of sensor and computed sun position simultaneously), tracking error compensated program type and image processing type. Experimentally obtained data shows that the tracking error compensated program type sun tracking system is very effective and could provide a good sun tracking performance. Also the data obtained shows that the performance of sensor type sun tracking system is being affected by the cloud significantly, while the performance of a program type sun tracking system is being affected by the sun tracking system's mechanical and installation errors very much. Finally image processing type sun tracking system can provide accurate sun tracking performance, but costs more and requires more computational time.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1805-1818
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• 2018

This paper proposes a novel hybrid maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm combining a Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) and the conventional Perturb & Observation (P&O) to track/extract the highest amount of power from a solar photovoltaic (SPV) system working under partial shading conditions (PSCs). The proposed hybrid algorithm is based on a WOA which predicts the initial global peak (GP) and is followed by P&O in the final stage to achieve a quicker convergence to a GP. Thus, this hybrid algorithm overcomes the computational burden encountered in a standalone WOA, grey wolf optimization (GWO) and hybrid GWO reported in the literature. The conventional algorithm searches for the maximum power point (MPP) in the predicted region by the WOA. The proposed MPPT technique is modelled and simulated using MATLAB/Simulink for simulating an environment to check its effectiveness in accurately tracking the MPP during the GP region. This hybrid algorithm is compared with a standalone WOA, GWO and hybrid GWO. From the simulating results, it is shown that the proposed algorithm offers high tracking performance and that it increases the output power level of a SPV system under partial shading. The algorithm also verified experimentally on various PSCs.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.185-202
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• 2022

This research work focuses to design and simulate a 200W solar power system with electrical power conservation scheme as well as thermal power conservation modeling to improve power extraction from solar power plant. Many researchers have been already designed and developed different methods to extract maximum power while there were very researches are available on improving solar power thermally and mechanically. Thermal parameters are also important while discussing about maximizing power extraction of any power plant. A specific type of coolant which have very high boiling point is proposed to be use at the bottom surface of solar panel to reduce the temperature of panel in summer. A comparison between different maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique and proposed MPPT technique is performed. Using this proposed Thermo-electrical MPPT (TE-MPPT) with Deep Learning Algorithm model 40% power is conserved as compared to traditional solar power system models.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.401-407
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 태양광 장기체공 무인기의 전력모델을 포함한 3차원 경로계획과 유도에 대하여 기술한다. 본 논문에서 사용한 Dubins curve는 계산속도가 빨라 경로계획에 곧바로 적용이 가능하다는 장점이 있다. 하지만 Dubins curve의 경로생성 문제는 2차원 평면에서 정의되기 때문에 실제 항공기의 경로계획을 위해 Randal W. Beard에 의해 수행된 비행 경로각의 한계를 고려하여, 고도 차이에 따라 선회경로를 추가하는 방식의 3차원 Dubins 경로생성 알고리즘을 활용하였다. 본 논문에서 사용한 항공기 모델은 Aileron이 없기 때문에 Rudder를 사용하여 횡축 방향 제어기를 설계하였으며, 비선형 경로추종 유도기법을 사용하여 경로추종 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 고도조건에 따른 예제를 생성하였으며, 시뮬레이션 결과 생성된 경로를 잘 추종하는 것을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 태양에너지 수율에 대한 계산식을 통해 태양광 장기체공 무인기의 전력 시스템을 모델링하여 48시간 연속비행 시뮬레이션을 실시하였고, 이에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과를 제시하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 학술대회 논문집 전문대학교육위원
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• pp.212-215
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• 2006

This paper a new method which applies a genetic algorithm for determining which sectionalizing switch to operate in order to solve the distribution system loss minimization re-configuration problem. In addition, the proposed method introduces a ultra efficient MMP tracking in a solar power generation system.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.19
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• pp.394-395
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• 2006

This paper a new method which applies a genetic algorithm for determining which sectionalizing switch to poerate in order to solve the distribution system loss minimization re-configuration problem. In addition, the proposed method introduces a ultra efficient MMP tracking in a solar power generation system.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전력기술부문
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• pp.75-77
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• 2006

This paper a new method which applies a genetic algorithm for determining which sectionalizing switch to poerate in order to solve the distribution system loss minimization re-configuration problem. In addition, the proposed method introduces a ultra efficient MMP tracking in a solar power generation system.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집 광주전남지부
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• pp.63-67
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• 2006

This paper a new method which applies a genetic algorithm for determining which sectionalizing switch to poerate in order to solve the distribution system loss minimization re-configuration problem. In addition, the proposed method introduces a ultra efficient MMP tracking in a solar power generation system.