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Solar Energy Collection Analysis Tool For Conceptual Aircraft Design, Grant Glazebrook
Solar Energy Collection Analysis Tool For Conceptual Aircraft Design, Grant Glazebrook
Aerospace Engineering
As battery energy storage and solar cell technology improve, solar aircraft are increasingly being considered for High Altitude Long Endurance missions. Although solar vehicles may theoretically remain on-station indefinitely using the sun as a power source, their design and feasibility is sensitive to mission planning details as specific as the time history of the vehicle’s deck orientation relative to the sun; the energy available for capture by the on-board solar array is governed by the solar incidence angle, and at certain orientations, the vehicle may cast shadows on itself and further reduce its energy capture capabilities. To quantify these losses, …
Residential Grid-Tied With Battery Backup Photovoltaic System, Thomas Stobuagh
Residential Grid-Tied With Battery Backup Photovoltaic System, Thomas Stobuagh
Electrical Engineering
When power outages occur, many homes are left without power for some time as they are dependent on the power grid. This project aims to design a residential grid tied battery backup photovoltaic system that will provide up to 7.2kW in an area that gets 5.36-5.49 kWh/m2/day [1] to support a home with an average daily usage of 28.4 kWh/day. To effectively use this system the house remains connected to the electric utility at all times, so any power needed above what the solar system can produce is simply drawn from the utility. It includes battery backup or uninterruptible power …
Multipolymer Interactions In Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices, Grant Olson
Multipolymer Interactions In Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices, Grant Olson
Physics
Multipolymer photovoltaics, single layer devices made up of multiple photoactive polymers, can create organic photovoltaics (OPVs) with a wider spectral response than single polymer systems without the difficult fabrication of a tandem. Our group has successfully created multipolymer solar devices with 2% power conversion efficiency. We have analyzed the optical and electrical properties of these devices, and found that it may be possible for polymers to assist each other with charge extraction, though combining polymers disrupts single polymer crystallinity.