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Paper Title : DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EFFICIENT LDR AUTOMATIC SOLAR TRACKER

ISSN : 2395-1303
Year of Publication : 2021
10.29126/23951303/IJET-V7I6P9

Authors: Ismail I, Femi-Jemilohun O.J and Fasina E.T

         


Abstract
Renewable source of energy generation has come to rescue the consumers on the shortage of electricity generation by the power sector of the country. One of these promising renewable sources is the solar power generation. There is a limitation to what this source can generate per time due to the Earth rotation around the Sun, this tends to cast shadow on the radiance of the sun at a particular time of the Earth movement and therefore hinder the solar panels from proper alignment to the ray of the sun. It becomes imperative that a device that monitors the angle of the highest intensity of the sun radiance must be put in place. A solar tracking device using semiconductor technology is constructed in this work to enhance the performance of the sun ray collection by the solar panels at different angles of sun radiation. The device can be used in every walk of life where clean, reliable noiseless electricity supply from solar energy system is preferred

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Keywords
-Renewable, Solar Tracker, Light Dependent Resistors, Sun Radiation, Light intensity, semi-conductor Technology