In the non-mechanical tracking solar tower, solar panels, along with high-reflectivity mirrors, are vertically mounted at an angle based on the location that these fall in the line-of-sight of the sun during the morning, mid-day and evening hours, hence leading to high-efficiency solar power generation.
The EP Sunsol Team, which did the installation, comprised Mahadevan R and Hitesh Mehta. Mayank Gupta and Virendra Kumar (Department of Physics), Masood Ali (SeNSE), and Sanjay Ambwani (Design Department) were also part of the IIT Delhi research team. “Both non-mechanical and mechanical solar towers can generate 20-25% and 25-30% more power, respectively, while utilizing only 50-60% rooftop space compared to conventional solutions.” “After intensive research, we got success in arriving at the lightweight and cost-effective novel design on mounting solar PV towers along with high reflectivity mirrors to follow the sun's movement,” said Dalip Singh Mehta, a professor at the Physics Department of IIT Delhi and part of the project team. The systems are scalable to higher capacity with the addition of more arrays in a tower design and are particularly useful for electric vehicle charging stations, rooftop solar power generation, and power generation for agriculture purposes (agri-photovoltaics), such as solar water pumping, charging batteries for tractors, etc. EP Sunsol has already deployed the systems of 3 kW, 4 kW and 5 kW capacities at Chennai, IIT Delhi, and Navi Mumbai, respectively. Both the systems are patented by IIT Delhi and licensed to Banglore and Mumbai-based EP Sunsol for commercial installation. These space-saving solar towers are designed in mechanical and non-mechanical tracking versions. Use of mirrors alongside solar panels redirects the sunlight to the panels, maximizing the solar power generation. These solar towers are portable in that they can be mounted on a truck and taken anywhere to generate power. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) have developed portable solar towers that generate 20-30% more power while requiring only 50-60% rooftop space compared to conventional solutions. How about solar PV systems that can be moved from one place to another to generate power? And what if the system also lets you generate more power than conventional setups while freeing up a good deal of space for other purposes?
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