Iranian Researcher Produces Sun Trackers for Solar Panels
Speaking to ANA on the sidelines of Asreh Omid Event run by Islamic Azad University (IAU), Hamid Arabzadeh from the Islamic Azad university (IAU) said that the solar tracker they have produced adjust the direction that a solar panel is facing according to the position of the Sun.
He said that the scientific achievement was sponsored by the Islamic Azad University’s Rafsanjan branch in the Southeast Iranian province of Kerman.
“The old models also functioned based on light sensors, which faces errors if the weather is cloudy or partly cloudy, therefore they used to reduce the efficiency of the system, or if there are environmental reflections, the light sensors also make mistakes, while in this solar tracker, we adjust the region to this data system based on the longitude and latitude of geography and time. This system continues its process for one year (cloudy or non-cloudy weather) and when it reaches the last stop, it senses again and returns to the initial position to be ready to work the next day,” the researcher further explained.
Arabzadeh explained more on the features of solar tracker and said, “Older systems were fixed or based on optical sensors and were prone to making errors; so I came up with the idea to produce a system that dynamically adjusts itself to the angle of sunlight without the need for an optical sensor.”
The national Asreh Omid Event, orchestrated by Islamic Azad University, was held in late May in Tehran’s Grand Mosalla with the participation 3,000 knowledge-based companies, laboratories, research teams and startups.
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