Design Of A Low Cost Solar Tracking Photo Voltaic (Pv) Module And Wind Turbine Combination System.

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is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia. During her career, Dr. Ososanya has worked for private industry as a circuit development engineer and as a software engineer, in addition to her academic activities. She received her education in the United Kingdom, where she achieved her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bradford in 1985. She was also a Visiting Professor at Michigan Technological University for five years, and a faculty member at Tennessee Technological University for 7 years prior to arriving at the University of the District of Columbia in the Fall of 2001. Dr. Ososanya is interested in new applications for VLSI, MEMS, parallel processing, and pipeline architecture. In recent years, she has worked with colleagues to apply these technologies to such environmental problems as watershed monitoring and management, and Telemetry applications.

A Comparative Study on a Built Sun Tracker and Fixed Converter Panels

“…A digital microcontroller applied for controller unit in implemented device. Due to convert the analog signals from the solar panels to digital values for farther processing, an IC is needed such that support analog to digital conversion (Lakeou, Ososanya, Latigo, Mahmoud, Karanga, & Oshumare, 2006).…”

Indexes for the evaluation of a Solar Tracker*

“…Currently, in many developing countries, there still exist areas where electrical energy is not available [1], the fundamental cause being a disperse, low-income, rural population in regions where access is difficult. Because of this, taking advantage of low cost and highly efficient photovoltaic solar energy [2], [3] represents one possible solution. The use of solar trackers represents an alternative to improve efficiency during the exploitation of solar energy [4], [5].…”

Optimum Seeking Position Control of Solar Collectors

“…The position of the sun with respect to that of the earth changes in a cyclic manner during the course of a calendar year [1]. It is therefore necessary to track the position of the sun in order to expose a solar collector to maximum solar radiation at any given time.…”

“…It is therefore necessary to track the position of the sun in order to expose a solar collector to maximum solar radiation at any given time. For this reason, researchers all over the world have been exploring different tracking techniques for the optimization of both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems [1][2][3][4]. In fact, it has been stated in [1] that up to 30% more solar energy can be collected with a solar tracker than with a fixed system.…”