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Design of a solar tracking parallel mechanism with low energy consumption

2014; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 229; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0954406214537249

2041-2983

Óscar Altuzarra, Erik Macho, Jokin Aginaga, V. Petuya,

Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems

Solar trackers are devices that improve the efficiency of photovoltaic collectors increasing the area exposed to direct radiation of the sun. The main drawback of these kinds of devices is that they have to consume certain energy in order to move the collectors following the sun trajectory. This work presents the detailed design of a mechanism with parallel kinematics architecture able to accurately follow the sun motion, which has been designed with the aim of minimizing the energy consumption during its operation.