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Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools Midterm Presentation TEAM #6 Soumya Garre, Tulasi Nandigam, Shahla Khorsand, Krishna Chaithanya Thathireddy Date: 02/28/2008 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 1 TEAM #6 Contents • • • • • • • • • • Introduction………………………………………....Soumya Previous Capstone Work ……………………………Soumya Problem Specification…..………………....................Tulasi Use Case Diagram……………………........................Shahla System Architecture ………………….......................Shahla Implementation…………………………………..…..Chaitanya User Interface………………………………………...Chaitanya Team Roles…………………………………….…….Chaitanya Time Line…..………………………………………...Chaitanya References…………………………………………...Chaitanya 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 2 TEAM #6 Team Information • Name: Krishnachaithanya Thathireddy • Email:[email protected] • Name: Soumya Garre • Email:[email protected] • Name: Tulasi Nandigam • Email:[email protected] Instructor: Dr. Kwok Bun Yue Email: [email protected] Mentor: Dr. Michel Izygon Email: [email protected] • Name: Shahla Khorsand • Email:[email protected] 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 3 TEAM #6 Introduction • Solar Thermal power plants are used to generate electricity from the energy of the sun. • Heliostats (mirrors) and a receiver located at the top of a tower are used. 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 4 Solar Thermal Plant 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 5 TEAM #6 Introduction • 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. 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 6 TEAM #6 Terms • Heliostat - Movable mirrors that are used in the solar energy power plants. • Grid - Pattern of mirrors represented in rows and columns. • Cell - The number of mirrors arranged per square area in a structured way 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 7 TEAM #6 Previous Capstone Work • Implemented formulas to calculate the shading and blocking between the representative mirrors and the other mirrors. • Developed a web application which calculates the levels of shading and blocking for a given grid arrangement at specified longitudes and latitudes. • Stored the results obtained in a text file . 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 8 TEAM #6 Problem Specification • Verify the computation of shading and blocking for 8 mirrors done by the previous capstone team. • Calculate shading and blocking for 24 mirrors. • Use Java-3D software to show the graphical representation of levels of shading and blocking. • Use slit mirror design to maximize the efficiency of heliostat setup. 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 9 TEAM #6 Problem Specification • Improve the previous capstone project by storing the results in a database and provide an application to retrieve those results. • Compute annual energy based on yearly insolation data . • Create a set of test cases. 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 10 TEAM #6 Problem Specification • Calculate (x,y) coordinates of the neighboring mirrors to the central mirror in the cell. • Initially the minimal ∆R and ∆Az are calculated where ∆R = the radius of the circular rings in the field ∆Az = distance between the centers of two mirrors. • ∆Az and ∆R are varied until we get minimal shading and blocking. 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 11 TEAM #6 Use Case Diagram Generate Grid Calc. Solar Vector Calc. Altitude & Azimuth System Calc. Normal to Mirror User Vary ∆R & ΔAZ Calc. Shading & Blocking Calc. Annual Energy View Graphic Result Obtain Results 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 12 TEAM #6 System Architecture 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 13 TEAM #6 Implementation • The mirrors are placed in a radial stagger way and the mirrors in each cell are kept in the form of rhombus. • The central mirror in a cell is considered as a reference mirror for calculating shading and blocking. • The distances between the mirrors are calculated with respect to the diagonal length of the central mirror. 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 14 TEAM #6 Implementation 16 14 13 • Consider the source mirror 11 12 •Put the eight mirrors around the source mirror 8 10 1 6 2 Source Mirror 4 4 9 5 ΔAz 3 6 5 7 • Calculate shading and blockings 3 7 8 2 1 • Add sixteen more mirrors and calculate the shading and blocking of each one. 15 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 15 TEAM #6 Solar Thermal Plant Design and Operation Suite 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 16 TEAM #6 Solar Thermal Plant Design and Operation Suite TEAM #6 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 17 TEAM #6 Solar Thermal Plant Design and Operation Suite 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 18 TEAM #6 Solar Thermal Plant Design and Operation Suite 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 19 TEAM #6 Solar Thermal Plant Design and Operation Suite 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 20 TEAM #6 User Interface Allows the user to populate the longitude and latitude values for a particular location. Enables the user to store the longitude and latitude of a new location. A full scale web application instead of a webpage. A more compact representation of the levels of shading and blocking through the Java3D visualization interface. 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 21 TEAM #6 Team Roles 1. Krishnachaithanya Thathireddy Team leader, Research & Design, Programming 2. Shahla Khorsand Research & Design, Website Maintenance and Documentation . 3. Tulasi Nandigam Research, User Interface, Programming and Debugging. 4. Soumya Garre Research & Design, Developing, Website maintenance & Documentation 22 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools TEAM #6 Time Line 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 23 TEAM #6 References UML Distilled Third Edition (A brief guide to the standard object modeling language) , Martin Fowler, By: Cris Kobryn, Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and Jim Rumbaugh. Java 2 Platform How To Program , H.M. Deitel , P.J. Deitel and S.E.Santry, 2002 Prentice Hall http://dcm.uhcl.edu/cap683807fagp4/ 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 24 24 TEAM #6 Thank you. Questions? 02/28/2008 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools 25