VIGNANA BHARATHI INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY

MAXIMIZING THE SOLAR POWER BY

COMBINE CYCLE: AN EXPERIMENTAL
STUDY ON MINIATURE SOLAR POWER
STATION

BY
M.PRASHANTH
(16P66D0711)
 OVERVIEW

Photovoltaic technology
Solar pond
Sun ray concentration
Combine cycle
Research design
Conclusion
 PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY

Solar power is the conversion of

sunlight into electricity, either
directly using photovoltaic, or
indirectly using concentrated
solar power.
Normal rating of PV cell when
exposed to full sunlight
Voltage 0.45
Current 0.75
 Several solar cells are connected to
form a string. Several strings are
connected in parallel to form a
modules.
Several modules are connected in
series, parallel, series and parallel
configuration to form array. This
arrays installed on structure to form
PV collector.
There are three main types of PV
solar panels they are
Solar pond and sun ray concentration

Solar pond is state of the art technique to

produce electricity.
Solar pond is mainly pool of salt water which
collects and stores solar thermal energy.
In well designed solar pond, bottom layer can
reach temperature of about 95c, where as cold
water in upper layer at atmospheric temperature.
Concentrated solar power systems uses lenses or
mirrors and tracking system to focus large area of
sun light into a small beam
Solar pond
 Combine cycle
Combine cycle is combination of
Rankine cycle, one kind of
thermodynamics cycle which converts
heat into mechanical work , and
organic cycle.
The combine cycle uses heating
principle of Rankine cycle for increase
the temperature of water but does
not vaporize the water for rotating
turbine.
Combine cycle
Block diagram
Solar panel with tracker
 Solar tracker senses the suns
movement across the sky and tries to
maintain the solar panels
perpendicular to suns rays
There are two types of solar trackers
such has horizontal axis tracker and
vertical axis tracker but we are using
horizontal tracker.
Arduino uno is microcontroller board
based on atmega328p has been used
to design solar tracker.
It has 14 digital input /output pins(out
 Conclusion

The main theme of this project is

to generate electricity using both
sun light and suns heat.
Adding both this features the
combined features the combined
efficiency will be higher than
normal power system.
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