Solar Thermal Plant Design

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Solar Thermal Plant Design Operation Suite of
Tools
Team 3 Soumya Dhama Deepthi Mudunuri Sushma
Korrapati Ramya Poligari
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Team Information

• Team 3 Members
• Soumya Dhama
• E-mail soumya.dhama_at_gmail.com
• Deepthi Mudunuri
• Email deepthiathrayasa_at_gmail.com
• Sushma Korrapati
• E-mail sushmakorrpati_at_gmail.com
• Ramya K Poligari
• E-mail ramya.poligari_at_gmail.com
• 
  

• 
  
  Instructor
• 
  
  Dr. Kwok Bun Yue
• 
  
  Email
  yue_at_uhcl.edu
• Mentor
• 
  
  Dr. Michel
  Izygon
• 
  
  Email
  mizygon_at_tietronix.com

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Contents

• Introduction
• Heliostats
• Shading and Blocking
• Solar Computation Program
• Project Proposal
• Project Requirements
• Technologies Used
• Flow Chart Diagram
• User Interface Demo
• Future Work
• References

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Introduction

• A Solar Power plant produces electricity by
  reflecting sunlight on to the central receiver
• A solar thermal plant consists of mirror
  reflectors called heliostats

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Heliostats

• They direct and concentrate the solar radiation
  onto a central receiver
• Many parameters must be optimized, in the design
  of a solar thermal plant
• The parameters are
• Location
• Shading and
• Blocking

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Shading and Blocking

• Shading occurs when a heliostat casts its shadow
  on another heliostat located behind it
• Blocking occurs when a heliostat in front of
  another heliostat, blocks the reflected suns
  energy on its way to the receiver

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Solar Computation Program

• It produces a snapshot of shading and blocking of
  each heliostat
• The design process includes analyses of data at
  different times and dates
• Many executions are required for a solar thermal
  plant

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Project Proposal

• Effectively store, retrieve and delete the output
  data of the Solar Computation Program
• Retrieve the data by various key words
• Program executed via a simple Graphical User
  Interface

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Project Requirements

• Develop a Graphical User Interface
• Store the output data from the Solar Computation
  Program to the database
• Output data
• OpenGI_Helio_DYN.txt
• Results.xls
• run_info.txt
• NeighborDistances.txt
• dataSAR.txt

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Project Requirements

• Retrieve a data set from the database by
  providing the field identifiers
• Retrieve multiple sets of data by the user
  request
• Display the statistics on the sets in storage
• Delete sets from storage by providing the field
  identifier

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Project Requirements

• Prevent duplicate entries in the database
• Facilitate two user interaction with the database

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Technologies Used

• C.NET
• SQL Server 2005
• Windows XP/Vista
• Visual Studio 2005

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Start
Open the application
A
Q
R
D
Select the insert page
Selects an input directory
Verifies whether the folder has the read
permission
No
YES
Ready to access the files
You cant access files
Check-in
Verifies if SC sets exists in the folder
Shows an acknowledgement that one set already
exists
No
YES
Copy into the database
Check-in successful
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A
Select output directory
Verifies whether it has write permission
YES
NO
Not ready to accept any queries
Ready to accept queries
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Q
Browse
Select one of the options
Search the database for the value entered in the
selected option
NO
Data not found
YES
Successful
Information about the sets
Select a set
Retrieve
Re-write data into the output folder
Done
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R
Statistics
Displays general statistics
OK
Close window
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D
Browse
Select field identifier
NO
YES
Search
No data found
Successful
Information about the sets
Select a set
Delete
Warning message
Remove permanently
Done
Closes window
End
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User interface Demo

• DEMO

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Future Work

• UI Enhancements
• - In each page there are some
  functionalities which have to be implemented.
• - Implement multiple user interaction
  modules which is still under
  documentation.
• - Implement the On_Click Events in few
  pages.

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Future Work

• Questions?

• Data Base Design and Implementation
• - Data modeling using UML class diagrams
• - Rough Database design
• - Restructuring and refinement of the data
  accordingly
• Integrate the User Interface with the data base
  to
• provide complete functionality to our
  application

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References

• http
• http//aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php
• http//www.powerfromthesun.net/