1. Solar Thermal Plant Design & Operation Suite of Tools
Team #3
Soumya Dhama
Deepthi Mudunuri
Sushma Korrapati
Ramya Poligari

2. Team Information Team #3 Members: Instructor: Soumya Dhama
Deepthi Mudunuri
Sushma Korrapati
Ramya K Poligari
Instructor:
Dr. Kwok Bun Yue
Mentor:
Dr. Michel Izygon

3. Contents Introduction Heliostats Shading and Blocking
Solar Computation Program
Project Proposal
Project Requirements
Technologies Used
Flow Chart Diagram
User Interface Demo
Future Work
References

4. Introduction
A Solar Power plant produces electricity by reflecting sunlight on to the central receiver
A solar thermal plant consists of mirror reflectors called heliostats

5. Heliostats
They direct and concentrate the solar radiation onto a central receiver
Many parameters must be optimized, in the design of a solar thermal plant
The parameters are
Location
Shading and
Blocking

6. Shading and Blocking
Shading occurs when a heliostat casts its shadow on another heliostat located behind it
Blocking occurs when a heliostat in front of another heliostat, blocks the reflected suns energy on its way to the receiver

7. Solar Computation Program
It produces a snapshot of shading and blocking of each heliostat
The design process includes analyses of data at different times and dates
Many executions are required for a solar thermal plant

8. Project Proposal
Effectively store, retrieve and delete the output data of the Solar Computation Program
Retrieve the data by various key words
Program executed via a simple Graphical User Interface

9. Project Requirements Develop a Graphical User Interface
Store the output data from the Solar Computation Program to the database
Output data
OpenGI_Helio_DYN.txt
Results.xls
run_info.txt
NeighborDistances.txt
dataSAR.txt

10. Project Requirements
Retrieve a data set from the database by providing the field identifiers
Retrieve multiple sets of data by the user request
Display the statistics on the sets in storage
Delete sets from storage by providing the field identifier

11. Project Requirements Prevent duplicate entries in the database
Facilitate two user interaction with the database

12. Technologies Used C#.NET SQL Server 2005 Windows XP/Vista
Visual Studio 2005

13. A Q R D YES No No YES Start Open the application
Select the insert page
Selects an input directory
Verifies whether the folder has the read permission
YES No
Ready to access the files
You cant access files
Check-in
Verifies if SC sets exists in the folder No
Shows an acknowledgement that one set already exists
YES
Copy into the database
Check-in successful

14. Select output directoryA
Select output directory
Verifies whether it has write permission
YES NO
Ready to accept queries
Not ready to accept any queries

15. Select one of the optionsQ
Browse
Select one of the options
Search the database for the value entered in the selected option NO
Data not found
YES
Successful
Information about the sets
Select a set
Retrieve
Re-write data into the output folder
Done

16. Displays general statisticsOK
Close window

17. Select field identifier
Browse
Select field identifier
YES NO
Search
Successful
No data found
Information about the sets
Select a set
Delete
Warning message
Remove permanently
Done
Closes window
End

18. User interface Demo
DEMO

19. Future Work UI Enhancements
- In each page there are some functionalities which have to be implemented.
- Implement multiple user interaction modules which is still under documentation.
- Implement the On_Click Events in few pages.

20. Future Work Questions? Data Base Design and Implementation
- Data modeling using UML class diagrams
- Rough Database design
- Restructuring and refinement of the data accordingly
Integrate the User Interface with the data base to
provide complete functionality to our application

21. References http http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php