Current trends in energy production suggest that renewable energy will play an important role in future electricity generation. Among renewable sources, solar power is considered to be one of the most promising alternatives which is well supported by the rapid increase of Solar Thermal Power Plant installations worldwide. Solar energy (so as renewables) however is plagued by the intermittent na...

Integrated energy systems utilizing renewable sources are sustainable and environmentally substitutes for conventional fossil-fired energy systems. A new multigeneration plant with two inputs, such as biomass and solar energy, and four useful outputs, such as cooling, heating, power, and distilled water, is presented and investigated in this paper. The proposed system includes evacuated tub...

Title of Document: A SUNLIGHT TO MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION MODULE PROTOTYPE FOR SPACE SOLAR POWER Paul Iven Jaffe, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Victor L. Granatstein, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The prospect of effectively limitless, continuous electricity from orbiting satellites for use on earth has captured many people’s interest for decades. The...

The application of gain-scheduled control to a pilot-scale solar power plant is described. A eld of parabolic collectors focus the solar radiation onto a tube where oil is pumped through in order to collect the solar power. The control problem is to keep the temperature of the oil leaving the eld at its desired value by manipulating the oil pump ow rate. It is shown that gain-scheduling can e e...

Due to their extremely small luminosity compared to the stars they orbit, planets outside our own Solar System are extraordinarily difficult to detect directly in optical light. Careful photometric monitoring of distant stars, however, can reveal the presence of exoplanets via the microlensing or eclipsing effects they induce. The international PLANET collaboration is performing such monitoring...

Power Quality is an essential aspect for reliable operation of power grid including Photovoltaic based generation. This paper focuses on real time problem of injection of harmonics and resonance into power network having 5MW solar plant. The solar plant includes 10 inverters each of 500KW connected to 33kV bus. Power produced by plant is explored via 4km cable at 220kV, where conventional plant...