ISFOC will carry out the SOLARPLUG project
Recently, the Department of Economy, Companies, and Employment of the Autonomous Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha has granted ISFOC with the funds to carry out the project, “Solarplug. The Experimental Development of a Stand-Alone System with a Tracking System”, under the Support Programme for Entrepreneurial Innovation in Castilla-La Mancha. The Solarplug project is linked to RIS3 strategy, and more specifically to the specialization of the Energy and Environment field.
The Project’s main purposes are to:
- Design a more economical and more reliable solar tracker, suitable for isolated self-consumption, which can be used for both concentration photovoltaics and conventional photovoltaics energy, including storage capacity.
- Design a weather station consisting of a small, self-powered tracker with the same design philosophy.
- Design, characterisation and validation in order to improve the reliability and quality of the final product.
The project will have duration of 8 months during 2016.
The total approved investment comes to €113,374.88, 60% of which is financed by the Support Programme for Entrepreneurial Innovation in Castilla-La Mancha, the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), and FEDER Operating System 2014-2020 of Castilla-La Mancha.
PROJECT DATA SHEET
Open Access results dissemination repository
Mechanical System
- Prototype design of the stand-alone system with a tracking system
- Photovoltaic system prototype simulation with applied loads
- Prototype displacement simulation in the hoist axis
Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA)
- Architecture diagram of the data control, monitoring, and acquisition system
- Diagram of the control algorithm
-Hardware components and physical connections diagram
-Scheme of the electronic circuit of the local control interface
-Screenshot with the SCADA implemented for the project
-Process in C programming language to obtain the position of the sun using the SPA algorithm
-Process in Python programming language to register the operation log in BBDD
-Process in charge of supplying the parameters of the control logic in Python programming language
-Console for the execution of remote commands implemented in Python programming language
-Process in charge of executing the SCADA instructions in Python programming language
Electrical System
- Scheme of the isolated systems
- Scheme of the Sunny Boy inverter for isolated systems
- Photovoltaic energy efficiency and consumer demand
- Different stages of load regulation of the Sunny Island inverted battery
