Design of solar array with sun position tracking system employing refrigerant

Abstract

Renewable energy is quickly gaining relevance as a source of energy as the price of fossil fuels changes. As the need for electricity has risen in recent years, the power sector has played an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Solar power is one of the most important renewable energy sources on the planet, and it should be collected and exploited to its full potential. The proposed system is unique in that it uses the sun instead of the earth as a guiding source. Solar panels' energy conversion efficiency is determined on the amount of sunshine they receive. As a result, a tracker device must be designed to make sure that the solar panel's direction always follows the sun's location. As a result, we're attempting to design a solar array with a sun position tracking system that can provide or consume the most solar energy while maintaining a reasonable potency. There are a variety of ways to track the sun's location, but we prefer to utilize the passive method. Instead of using external energy to detect the sun's position, passive solar tracking employs refrigerant as a source. It operates on the concept that when the temperature rises, the refrigerant's vapour pressure rises as well. The transfer of high-pressure refrigerant from one canister to another generates an imbalance in the weights on the canisters, allowing them to track the position of the sun.