Solar Tracking System With Automatic Panel Cleaning

• Main Author: Ngu, Jotham Ong Hu
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2020
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37449/1/Jotham.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37449/

The growth of solar power technology across every continent in the world is very fast and steady and in the near future, almost every country will have a history to tell about the numerous benefits of going solar. However, solar panels have a low energy capturing efficiency compared to other renewable energy due to a big loss in sun tracking loss and soiling effect. Thus, this project has been carried out with the goal to tackle both problems in solar panel with a proposed system. A combination of solar tracking system and panel cleaning system has been designed and a prototype of the system has been built to improve the efficiency of a solar panel in energy capturing process. Arduino has been used for the implementation of the prototype. Moreover, an experiment has been carried out to make comparison between the efficiency of a solar panel fixed on the proposed system and a static solar panel. The results reveal the improvement of the efficiency of the solar panel which shows the practicality and the significance of the project in solar energy industry