Solar cell efficiency improvement using compound parabolic concentrator and an implementation of sun tracking system

Eklas Hossain, Riza Muhida, Ahmad Faris Dzulkipli, Khairul Azizi Abdul Rahman

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Abstract

This paper presents how the efficiency of solar cell can be increased with the design of compound parabolic concentrator and the implementation of sun tracking system. Sun tracking systems is an application of the Machine Vision (MV) and collaboration with Data Acquisition (DAQ) to systems by using a webcamera as a sensor and sound card as an output channel to drive a motor. The motors react as the mechanism of the camera to make sure it always focuses on the target of sun. By using a MatLab software programming environment, closes loop control is implemented to provide interaction between camera and sound card as a device to control the motor to track the sun.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2008
Pages723-728
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2008 - Khulna, Bangladesh
Duration: 25 Dec 200827 Dec 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2008

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2008
Country/TerritoryBangladesh
CityKhulna
Period25/12/0827/12/08

Keywords

  • Close loop control
  • Concentrator
  • Machine vision
  • Solar cell
  • Sun tracking

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