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Proposed Design for Single Axis Photovoltaic Solar Tracker.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Our energy needs increase day by day, so the search for a renewable source of energy has become a necessity of life. Photovoltaic solar energy (PVSE) is one of the most important sources in our community because it is clean and renewable. This paper discusses improvement the production energy from this source by using practical design of single axis solar tracking system. The designed solar tracking system used microcontroller Arduino Mega, real time clock (RTC), limit switches and servo motor. The mechanism of the designed solar tracker is applied by moving the solar structure to track the sun on better angle to be perpendicular to the sun to get the most energy from it using the RTC and limit switches.  Comparison between solar tracking system and fixed system reveal that the system is more economic and larger power production. This tracking system is designed and tested in real environmental in Qena governorate in Egypt. The 10 kW solar power plants are used as a case study for this system. Comparison between the proposed solar tracking system and the solar fixed system for the same demand is performed using PVsyst software as theoretically. Also, economic viability between the two practical systems is produced. 

DOI

10.21608/bfemu.2020.94728

Keywords

tracking system, solar energy, Microcontroller, PVsyst software

Authors

First Name

Ammar

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Bakry

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eng3mmarbakry@gmail.com

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First Name

Mokhtar

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Said Ibrahim

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Department of Electrical Engineering – Faculty of Engineering – Fayoum university

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msi01@fayoum.edu.eg

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First Name

Saber

Last Name

Saleh

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Mohamed

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Department of Electrical Engineering – Faculty of Engineering – Fayoum University

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sms08@fayoum.edu.eg

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Volume

45

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2

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14075

Issue Date

2020-06-01

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2020-04-07

Publish Date

2020-06-09

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1

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11

Print ISSN

1110-0923

Online ISSN

2735-4202

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BFEMU_Volume 45_Issue 2_Pages 1-11.pdf

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https://bfemu.journals.ekb.eg/article_94728.html

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1,205

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Publication Title

MEJ. Mansoura Engineering Journal

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https://bfemu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Proposed Design for Single Axis Photovoltaic Solar Tracker.

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Created At

22 Jan 2023