One of the challenges to the realization of harvesting solar power from space is overcoming the difficulties and high cost for the transportation and construction of a large orbiting solar reflector. One approach that has received attention is using thousands of individual robots moving in formation, each with a piece of the reflector attached, to form the structure. In previous work, we demons...

Organic Rankine Cycle power plants use organic, high molecular mass fluids to allow heat recovery from lower temperature sources such as industrial waste heat, geothermal heat, solar etc. The expansion process is usually carried out by axial or radial turbines. However, when the available thermal power is less than 1000 kW, the usage of positive-displacement expander becomes more suitable. In t...

Many sites of high solar insolation in Australia are located far from major load centres, and it is likely that the siting of future solar power plants in Australia will necessitate extensive transmission infrastructure. The unique generation profile of solar electric plants limits the utilisation of dedicated transmission lines rated to the peak output of a plant. If a plant is oversized for a...

The generation of electricity by solar photovoltaic batteries depends on the angle incidence sunlight and is maximum when this 90 degrees, i.e., rays fall strictly perpendicular. greater deviation from 90-degree angle, more radiant energy reflected rather than extinguished modules. Therefore, it especially important to correctly orient surface modules set desired inclination angle. To place pan...

This paper deals with the design and evaluation of the performance of fuzzy predictive controller in supervisory mode for a solar-concentration-based power plant, with cylindrical-parabolic solar collectors. For the design of the controller, the inner control loops present in this solar platform are included in the model of the plant. That is, a control loop consisting of a PI plus a feed-forwa...

Abstract— A case study of grid connected PV system analysis is done for 500 kW grid connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system at a northern location of Bangladesh. HOMER and MATLAB Programming tools and monthly average solar radiation data from NASA is used for this study. In this paper a grid connected PV power plant is designed and simulated using HOMER software, the power plant is sized to su...