A Solar Compass for Enhancing the Efficiency of Concentrating Solar Power Plants

Daniele Murra; Sarah Bollanti; Fabrizio Andreoli; Lili Cafarella; Domenico De Meis; Paolo Di Lazzaro; Domenico Di Mauro; Francesco Flora; Gian Piero Gallerano; Luca Mezi; Luca Murra; Davide Vicca; Achille Zirizzotti

doi:10.1364/PVLED.2020.PvTh1G.4

OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF)
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2020),
paper PvTh1G.4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/PVLED.2020.PvTh1G.4

A Solar Compass for Enhancing the Efficiency of Concentrating Solar Power Plants

Daniele Murra, Sarah Bollanti, Fabrizio Andreoli, Lili Cafarella, Domenico De Meis, Paolo Di Lazzaro, Domenico Di Mauro, Francesco Flora, Gian Piero Gallerano, Luca Mezi, Luca Murra, Davide Vicca, and Achille Zirizzotti

Optical Devices and Materials for Solar Energy and Solid-state Lighting 2020

Washington, DC United States
13–16 July 2020
ISBN: 978-1-943580-79-8

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D. Murra, S. Bollanti, F. Andreoli, L. Cafarella, D. De Meis, P. Di Lazzaro, D. Di Mauro, F. Flora, G. P. Gallerano, L. Mezi, L. Murra, D. Vicca, and A. Zirizzotti, "A Solar Compass for Enhancing the Efficiency of Concentrating Solar Power Plants," in OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF), L. Caspani, A. Tauke-Pedretti, F. Leo, and B. Yang, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2020), paper PvTh1G.4.

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Abstract

a solar compass is presented, which determines the true North direction with an accuracy of 0.01°. It is compact, fast and low-cost and can also drive a solar panel for continuously aiming at the Sun

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