Estudo e construção de protótipo de um seguidor solar acoplado a uma placa fotovoltaica

Abstract

With the fast growth of the world population observed in the last decades, the demand for electrical energy has become increasing, occurring to the necessity of a greater production of this energy and there is a great concern for the expansion of energy was done through sources of clean energy. Among the energy sources, solar energy or photovoltaic energy stood out as a source of clean and renewable energy, but its use is not so widespread due to the high price of panels and the low efficiency of the system. In an attempt to improve its efficiency and makes the use of photovoltaic energy more attractive, solar trackers have been widely used. This work is designed to make a study and analysis of a solar tracker coupled to it a photovoltaic plate whose objective is to increase the efficiency of absorption of solar energy and study the data captured from the photovoltaic plate and compare it to a system photovoltaic. We worked with a set of electronic devices (Arduino) in the follower's composition and to perform the data acquisition of voltage and current