Transcript Solar Power Plant and Operation suite of tools

Solar Thermal Plant Design &
Operation Suite of Tools
Team #3
Soumya Dhama
Deepthi Mudunuri
Sushma Korrapati
Ramya Poligari
Team Information
Team #3 Members:
Soumya Dhama
E-mail: [email protected]
Instructor:
Deepthi Mudunuri
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Sushma Korrapati
E-mail: [email protected]
Mentor:
Dr. Kwok Bun Yue
Dr. Michel Izygon
Ramya K Poligari
E-mail: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Contents
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Introduction
Heliostats
Shading and Blocking
Solar Computation Program
Project Proposal
Project Requirements
Technologies Used
Flow Chart Diagram
User Interface Demo
Future Work
References
Introduction
• A Solar Power plant
produces electricity by
reflecting sunlight on to the
central receiver
• A solar thermal plant
consists of mirror reflectors
called heliostats
Heliostats
• They direct and concentrate
the solar radiation onto a
central receiver
• Many parameters must be
optimized, in the design of a
solar thermal plant
• The parameters are
– Location
– Shading and
– Blocking
Shading and Blocking
• 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
Solar Computation Program
• It produces a snapshot of shading and blocking of each
heliostat
• The design process includes analyses of data at different
times and dates
• Many executions are required for a solar thermal plant
Project Proposal
• Effectively store, retrieve and delete the output data of the
Solar Computation Program
• Retrieve the data by various key words
• Program executed via a simple Graphical User Interface
Project Requirements
• Develop a Graphical User Interface
• Store the output data from the Solar Computation Program to
the database
– Output data
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OpenGI_Helio_DYN.txt
Results.xls
run_info.txt
NeighborDistances.txt
dataSAR.txt
Project Requirements
• Retrieve a data set from the database by providing the field
identifiers
• Retrieve multiple sets of data by the user request
• Display the statistics on the sets in storage
• Delete sets from storage by providing the field identifier
Project Requirements
• Prevent duplicate entries in the database
• Facilitate two user interaction with the database
Technologies Used
• C#.NET
• SQL Server 2005
• Windows XP/Vista
• Visual Studio 2005
Start
Open the application
A
Q
R
D
Select the insert page
Selects an input
directory
Ready to access the
files
YES
Verifies
whether the
folder has
the read
permission
Check-in
Verifies if
SC sets
exists in
the folder
YES
Copy into the
database
Check-in
successful
No
Shows an acknowledgement
that one set already exists
No
You cant access files
A
Select output directory
YES
Ready to
accept queries
Verifies
whether it
has write
permission
NO
Not ready to
accept any
queries
Q
Browse
Select one of the options
Search the
database for
the value
entered in the
selected
option
NO
YES
Successful
Information about the
sets
Select a
set
Retrieve
Re-write data into the output folder
Done
Data not found
R
Statistic
s
Displays general
statistics
OK
Close window
D
Browse
Select field
identifier
Successful
YES
Information about the sets
Select a
set
Delet
e
Warning
message
Remove
permanently
Done
Closes
window
End
Searc
h
NO
No data found
User interface Demo
DEMO
Future Work
• UI Enhancements
- In each page there are some functionalities which have to
be implemented.
- Implement multiple user interaction modules which is still
under documentation.
- Implement the On_Click Events in few pages.
Future Work
• Data Base Design
Implementation
• and
Questions?
- Data modeling using UML class diagrams
- Rough Database design
- Restructuring and refinement of the data accordingly
• Integrate the User Interface with the data base to
provide complete functionality to our application
References
 http
 http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php
 http://www.powerfromthesun.net/