Performance evaluation of solar tracking systems for power generation based on simulation analysis: Solar island concept

Safarini, Nada Al; Akash, Omar; Mohsen, Mousa S.; Iqbal, Zaki

doi:10.1109/icecta.2017.8251933

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“…The most-cited paper is a review defining the state-of-the-art of floating PV technology, in which technology status and various design options are presented with potential applications, pros, and cons (Sahu et al 2016). Other papers discuss pilot projects or study the application of floating solar in countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina (Pasalic et al 2018), the United Kingdom and Japan (Patel 2014), India (Patel 2014;Mittal et al 2017a;Mittal et al 2017b), Bangladesh (Rahman et al 2017), the United Arab Emirates (Safarini et al 2017), Portugal (Proctor and Patel 2017), and Indonesia (Handara et al 2016). Regarding applications, just one paper describes a use other than power generation, which is water desalination (Ni et al 2018).…”

Section: State-of-the-art Of Floating Solarmentioning

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Floating Solar: An Emerging Opportunity at the Energy-Water Nexus

Gamarra

Ronk

2019

Texas Water Journal

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Texas is experiencing tremendous growth, which puts pressure on resources including water and electricity supplies. Texas leads the nation in renewable energy production and is experiencing tremendous growth in the solar energy sector, with the Solar Energy Industries Association reporting that Texas is on track to become the fastest growing utility-scale solar market in the United States within the next five years. In this market, a new photovoltaic (PV) technology, floating solar, is gaining attention. Floating solar PV systems use the same types of PV panels as land-based systems, but the panels are either floating in the water (tethered to the land or substrate) or are suspended over a water body. Floating solar panels typically produce more energy than similarly-sized terrestrial systems (because of the cooling effect and reflectivity of the water). The shading provided by the solar panels can also significantly reduce evaporation and can improve water quality by inhibiting the growth of some types of algae and inhibiting bromide converting to bromate. In a climate where much of the state is arid or semi-arid and the entire state is subject to drought, a technology such as floating solar can be part of the solution. Texas reservoirs, water and wastewater treatment facilities, power plant cooling ponds, and irrigation ponds all have the opportunity to realize multiple benefits from floating solar that could not be achieved with a standard ground-mounted PV installation. Citation: Gamarra C, Ronk JJ. 2019. Floating solar: an emerging opportunity at the energy-water nexus. Texas Water Journal. 10(1):32-45. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21423/twj.v10i1.7050.

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Section: State-of-the-art Of Floating Solarmentioning

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Floating Solar: An Emerging Opportunity at the Energy-Water Nexus

Gamarra

Ronk

2019

Texas Water Journal

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“…The simulation results showed a good agreement with the experimental ones, and the mean relative error was about 2.7%. Moreover, another work was conducted in UAE [38] to evaluate the rate of output power increment that can be achieved by 2…”

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Experimental Investigation and Comparison of the Net Energy Yield Using Control-Based Solar Tracking Systems

Osman

Almadani

Hariri

et al. 2022

International Journal of Photoenergy

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As the world trend is going towards renewable energy, solar photovoltaic (PV) energy shines the most due to the low generation cost especially by using the latest PV cell technologies and materials, although the conventional silicon cell has an efficiency in the range of 15-16%. A PV tracking system (PVTS) could be a considerable method to increase electrical PV efficiency. In this study, the performance enhancement of the daily output power and energy has been experimentally investigated using single- and dual-axis tracking mechanisms for flat-plate conventional PV panels under the insolation conditions of the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia (SA). In the current study, the active PVTS has been designed and implemented with PID controllers and controlled in real-time with an embedded system. The fixed-tilt (FTPV), single-axis solar tracking system (SAST), and dual-axis solar tracking system (DAST) were tested simultaneously under clear-sky conditions. The PV electrical energy balance has revealed that the energy consumed by the electrical controllers of the SAST and DAST is 3.4% and 3.9%, respectively. In addition, the energy losses due to the actuators of the SAST and DAST are 7.8% and 13.0%, respectively, where they contributed mainly to the energy losses. However, the PV energy production by the DAST was high enough to compensate for the higher actuating mechanism losing rate compared to the SAST and performed incremental net energy output of around 8.64%. On other hand, the DAST and SAST were more efficient than the FTPV recording higher net energy increase by 28.98% and 18.73%, respectively.

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