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Solar Thermal Plant Design &
Operation Suite of Tools
By
Team #4
Lakshmi Yogitha Javvadi,
Sukumar Bollineni
Deepa Borra,
Sasya Kodali.
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Team Information
Team#4 Members:
Mentor:
Dr. Michel Izygon
Email: [email protected]
Lakshmi Yogitha Javvadi
Email: [email protected]
Sasya Kodali
Email: [email protected]
Sukumar Bollineni
Email: [email protected]
Instructor:
Dr. Kwok Bun Yue
Email: [email protected]
Deepa Borra
Email: [email protected]
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Customer Information
Tietronix Software Inc. ,
1331 Gemini Avenue, Suite 300
Houston, TX 77058.
Website: www.tietronix.com
“Expert knowledge, best-in-class tools and a
proven methodology and process”.
Contact Person:
Dr.Michel Izygon, Ph.D.
Co-Founder,
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer.
Tietronix Software Inc.
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Contents
Plant Overview.…………………………Yogitha
Previous Work…………..……………Yogitha
Abstract…………...…………………Yogitha
Requirements………………………Sukumar
Use Case Diagram.…………………Sukumar
System Architecture…………………Sukumar
Problem Specification …………………Sukumar
Algorithm…………….………………………Deepa
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Contents
Flowchart …….…….………………………Deepa
User Interface ………...…………………Deepa
Shading & Blocking……………………Deepa
Java 3D utilities………………………..Sasya
Implementation issues ..………………..Sasya
Progress …………..……………………..Sasya
Team Roles…………….…………………..Sasya
Screen
Shots……….....………………...……..Sasya
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Solar Plant Overview
Tower with Receiver
Heliostats
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Previous Capstone Work
 Computed sun’s position.
 Mirror specification from user/database.
 Formation of the field.
 Calculated the normal.
 Azimuth and Altitude of the Heliostat.
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Project Abstract
 User Interface enhancements.
 Additional functionalities.
 Compute shading and blocking.
 Varying distance between mirrors.
 Mirror placement in radial stagger field.
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Requirements
• Improving User Interface.
• Compute shading and blocking.
– Sun’s direction, heliostat normal.
– Heliostat Size (W, H).
– Distance between heliostats/mirrors.
• Research on geometry.
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Technologies
 Java 1.6
 Net Beans 5.5.1
 Java Servlet
 Java Server Pages (JSP)
 JavaScript
 XML
 Ms-Access
 JAVA 3D utilities
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Use Case Diagram
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System Architecture
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Problem Specifications
• Equation of the plane.
• Mirror co-ordinates in absolute coordinate
system.
• Compute the sun’s position.
• Projections of the source on the target mirror.
• Intersection of the target mirror and the
projected plane.
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Algorithm
• Select mirror.
• Convert to absolute co-ordinate system.
– 2 Rotations
– 1 Translation
• Find neighboring mirror positions.
• Projection by rayPlane ( Java3D)
• Intersection using Clip ( Java3D)
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Flowchart
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User Interface
 Populating longitude and latitude.
 Dynamically storing the new locations.
 Professional web application.
 Integrating several pages.
 Proper demarcation of steps.
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User Interface
 JavaScript and CSS changes.
 Content is central driven.
 Code clean-up.
 Make pages look alike.
 Removal of unnecessary button clicks.
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Shading and Blocking
• A field of heliostats suffers losses.
• Considering neighboring heliostats.
• Calculated for ∆R and ∆Az.
• ∆R is the radial spacing.
• ∆Az is the Azimuthal spacing.
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Java3D Utilities
• Encapsulates the graphic programming
• Real and object oriented concept
• Utilities supports functionalities.
• rayPlane utility for projection.
• Clip utility for intersection.
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Implementation Issues
• Integrating Java3D utilities.
• Running applets in our web browser.
• Linking j3d jars with some .dll files.
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Progress
 Work Done:
• User Interface Improvements.
• Research on shading and blocking.
• Derived formulas.
• Implementation of formulas.
• Derived projection points.
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Progress
 Future Work:
• Derive intersection area.
• Integrating the Clip utility (Java3D).
• Storing values.
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Time Line
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Team Roles
Lakshmi Yogitha Javvadi (Team Leader)
Research, Design, Coding, Website and Documentation.
Sasya Kodali
Research, Design, Coding, Website and Documentation .
Deepa Borra
Research, User Interface, Coding and Debugging.
Sukumar Bollineni
Research, User Interface, Developing and Testing.
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Screen Shots
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Screen Shots
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Screen Shots
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Screen Shots
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References
 http://dcm.uhcl.edu/caps7g5/
 http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php
 http://www.powerfromthesun.net/
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