simplified solar power plant visualization for iphone

Simplified Solar Power Plant Visualization For iPhone

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Table of ContentsTopic Slide Number

Team information ………………………………………………3Instructor/Mentors Information ………………………………………………4Company Information ………………………………………………5Requirement Specification ………………………………………………7Solar Power Plant ………………………………………………7Demonstration ……………………………………………..14Future work ……………………………………………..16Conclusion ……………………………………………..17Project Timeline ……………………………………………..18References ……………………………………………..19

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Website: http://dcm.uhcl.edu/capf09g5

Yogesh BanchhodTeam Leader

Email: ypbanchhod@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Research

Syed Zaidi

Email: syedhmz@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Documentation

Darshan Chipade

Email: dchipade@gmail.comMajor: Computer Information SystemRole: Programmer/Research/Webmaster

Mohammed Gooni

Email: mohammedgooni@gmail.comMajor: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Research/Testing

Team Information

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Dr. Kwok-Bun YueProfessor, Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Chair, Division of Computing and Mathematics University of Houston-Clear LakeEmail: yue@cl.uh.edu

Dr. Michel IzygonCo-Founder, Senior Vice Preident,CTO, Tietronix Software Inc.Email: Michel.Izygon@tietronix.com

Instructor/Mentors Information

Peter ArmstrongTietronix Software Inc.Email: peter.armstrong-1@tietronix.com

Claus NilssonTietronix Software Inc.Email: claus.nilsson@tietronix.com

Insiya IftiqharTietronix Software Inc.Email: insia.iftiqhar@tietronix.com

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Company Information Tietronix Software, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Victor W.

Tang, Michel E. Izygon, Ph.D, and Stuart S. Engelhardt, each of whom has worked on the development of some of the world’s most advanced software-based technology solutions.

Tietronix is a full-service provider of custom software applications and advanced technology solutions for the worlds most selective customers including NASA and Fortune 1000 companies.

The core of Tietronix technical capabilities consists of an unrivaled methodology incorporating Unified Modeling Language and Object-Oriented Technologies, a formula that has led to the company’s 100 percent software development success rate.

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Introduction Solar thermal power plant

generates electricity from energy of the sun.

Field consists of a tower and heliostats.

A receiver located on top of the tower.

iPhone/iPod Touch Application.

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Requirement Specification

Hardware iPhone/iPOD Touch Apple Macintosh

Software iPhone SDK Unity Indie 3D Game Engine

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Project Requirement User Input screen

Date, time, heliostat measurement, tower measurement, field layout, tower placement

Grid Layout Screen 2D grid

Computation of Sun position, heliostat position and blocking/shading

Visualization Screen Sun View, tower View and heliostat View

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Heliostat

The heliostat is composed of several mirror modules rather than having single large mirror.

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Heliostat position Field of heliostat. Grid of n rows and m

columns. Tower Location. Center of the cell. Representative heliostat.

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Shading

Shading occurs at low sun angles when heliostat casts its shadow on a heliostat located behind it.

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Blocking

Blocking can be observed in a heliostat field by noting reflected light on the backs of heliostats.

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Sun Calculation Position of the sun. Accuracy of 0.01 degrees

(36 arc seconds) in celestial longitude 2D grid.

Using date, time, north latitude, east longitude and elevation we calculated the vectors

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Demonstration

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Lesson Learned Professional Approach. Research Work. New dimension and view. Team Work. Time management.

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Future Work Render multiple cells simultaneously. Complete day visualization.

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Conclusion Visualization of Solar Thermal Power Plant is successfully

deployed on iPhone/iPod-touch. The application renders cell containing heliostats. User can view the cell using three different views. User-Friendly software.

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Timeline

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References [1] “An Algorithm for the Shading and Blocking Computations

of a Field of Heliostats Arranged in a Grid Layout”, Peter Armstrong, Tietronix Software, Inc September 3 2009.

[2] Unity Web Forum http://forum.unity3d.com/ [3] The Solar Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project [4] iPhone Publication

http://unity3d.com/unity/features/iphone-publishing

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