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Developing a Sensorless Sun Tracker for PV Panels

2018; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-89911-4_5

2211-0992

Bechara Nehme, A. Fenianos, Tilda Akiki,

Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems

Solar energy market is growing rapidly and presenting a high energy share. We can find many applications of solar energy harvesting systems like Photovoltaics, Dual Face Photovoltaics, Concentrated Photovoltaics, and Concentrated Solar Power. All these systems need tracking technology to increase their efficiency or total output. We present in this paper an innovative sensorless tracking algorithm for PV panels where we track the sun’s position without using a sensor. The algorithm has been implemented on a Beckhoff PLC and a small PV module has been used to test the system.