5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design1 Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools By Team #4 Lakshmi Yogitha Javvadi, Sukumar Bollineni Deepa Borra, Sasya Kodali.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design2 Team Information Team#4 Members: Lakshmi Yogitha Javvadi Sasya Kodali Sukumar Bollineni Deepa Borra Mentor: Dr. Michel Izygon Instructor: Dr. Kwok Bun Yue

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design3 Customer Information Tietronix Software Inc., 1331 Gemini Avenue, Suite 300 Houston, TX Website: “Expert knowledge, best-in-class tools and a proven methodology and process”. Contact Person: Dr.Michel Izygon, Ph.D. Co-Founder, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer. Tietronix Software Inc.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design4 Contents Problem Specification …………………Sukumar Algorithm…………….………………………Deepa System Architecture…………………Sukumar Use Case Diagram.…………………Sukumar Requirements………………………Sukumar Abstract…………...…………………Yogitha Previous Work…………..……………Yogitha Plant Overview.…………………………Yogitha

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design5 Contents Team Roles…………….…………………..Sasya Screen Shots……….....………………...……..Sasya Progress …………..……………………..Sasya Implementation issues..………………..Sasya Java 3D utilities………………………..Sasya Shading & Blocking……………………Deepa User Interface ………...…………………Deepa Flowchart …….…….………………………Deepa

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design6 Solar Plant Overview Heliostats Tower with Receiver

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design7 Previous Capstone Work  Computed sun’s position.  Mirror specification from user/database.  Formation of the field.  Calculated the normal.  Azimuth and Altitude of the Heliostat.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design8 Project Abstract  User Interface enhancements.  Additional functionalities.  Compute shading and blocking.  Varying distance between mirrors.  Mirror placement in radial stagger field.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design9 Requirements Improving User Interface. Compute shading and blocking. –Sun’s direction, heliostat normal. –Heliostat Size (W, H). –Distance between heliostats/mirrors. Research on geometry.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design10 Technologies Java 1.6 Net Beans Java Servlet Java Server Pages (JSP) JavaScript XML Ms-Access JAVA 3D utilities

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design11 Use Case Diagram

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design12 System Architecture

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design13 Problem Specifications Equation of the plane. Mirror co-ordinates in absolute coordinate system. Compute the sun’s position. Projections of the source on the target mirror. Intersection of the target mirror and the projected plane.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design14 Algorithm Select mirror. Convert to absolute co-ordinate system. –2 Rotations –1 Translation Find neighboring mirror positions. Projection by rayPlane ( Java3D) Intersection using Clip ( Java3D)

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design15 Flowchart

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design16 User Interface  Populating longitude and latitude.  Dynamically storing the new locations.  Professional web application.  Integrating several pages.  Proper demarcation of steps.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design17 User Interface  JavaScript and CSS changes.  Content is central driven.  Code clean-up.  Make pages look alike.  Removal of unnecessary button clicks.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design18 Shading and Blocking A field of heliostats suffers losses. Considering neighboring heliostats. Calculated for ∆R and ∆Az. ∆R is the radial spacing. ∆Az is the Azimuthal spacing.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design19 Java3D Utilities Encapsulates the graphic programming Real and object oriented concept Utilities supports functionalities. rayPlane utility for projection. Clip utility for intersection.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design20 Implementation Issues Integrating Java3D utilities. Running applets in our web browser. Linking j3d jars with some.dll files.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design21 Progress  Work Done: User Interface Improvements. Research on shading and blocking. Derived formulas. Implementation of formulas. Derived projection points.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design22 Progress  Future Work: Derive intersection area. Integrating the Clip utility (Java3D). Storing values.

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design23 Time Line

5/1/2015Solar Thermal Plant Design24 Team Roles Lakshmi Yogitha Javvadi (Team Leader) Research, Design, Coding, Website and Documentation. Sasya Kodali Research, Design, Coding, Website and Documentation. Deepa Borra Research, User Interface, Coding and Debugging. Sukumar Bollineni Research, User Interface, Developing and Testing.

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