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Simplified Solar Power Plant Visualization For iPhone

Capstone Team#5 Fall 2009. Simplified Solar Power Plant Visualization For iPhone. Table of Contents. 2. Team Information. Website: http://dcm.uhcl.edu/capf09g5. Yogesh Banchhod Team Leader Email: ypbanchhod@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Research. Darshan Chipade

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Simplified Solar Power Plant Visualization For iPhone

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  1. Capstone Team#5 Fall 2009 Simplified Solar Power Plant Visualization For iPhone

  2. Table of Contents Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 2

  3. Team Information Website: http://dcm.uhcl.edu/capf09g5 Yogesh Banchhod Team Leader Email: ypbanchhod@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Research Darshan Chipade Email: dchipade@gmail.comMajor: Computer Information SystemRole: Programmer/Research/Webmaster Syed Zaidi Email: syedhmz@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Documentation Mohammed Gooni Email: mohammedgooni@gmail.comMajor: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Research/Testing Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 3

  4. Instructor/Mentors Information Dr. Michel Izygon Co-Founder, Senior Vice Preident, CTO, Tietronix Software Inc.Email: Michel.Izygon@tietronix.com Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue Professor, Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Chair, Division of Computing and Mathematics University of Houston-Clear Lake Email: yue@cl.uh.edu Peter Armstrong Tietronix Software Inc.Email: peter.armstrong-1@tietronix.com Claus Nilsson Tietronix Software Inc.Email: claus.nilsson@tietronix.com Insiya Iftiqhar Tietronix Software Inc.Email: insia.iftiqhar@tietronix.com Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 4

  5. Company Information • Tietronix Software, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Victor W. Tang, Michel E. Izygon, Ph.D, and Stuart S. Engelhardt, each of whom has worked on the development of some of the world’s most advanced software-based technology solutions. • Tietronix is a full-service provider of custom software applications and advanced technology solutions for the worlds most selective customers including NASA and Fortune 1000 companies. • The core of Tietronix technical capabilities consists of an unrivaled methodology incorporating Unified Modeling Language and Object-Oriented Technologies, a formula that has led to the company’s 100 percent software development success rate. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 5

  6. Introduction • Solar thermal power plant generates electricity from energy of the sun. • Field consists of a tower and heliostats. • A receiver located on top of the tower. • iPhone/iPod Touch Application. • Marketing Purpose. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 6

  7. Requirement Specification • Hardware • iPhone/iPOD Touch • Apple Macintosh • Software • iPhone SDK • Unity Indie 3D Game Engine Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 7

  8. Project Requirement • User Input screen • Date, time, heliostat measurement, tower measurement, field layout, tower placement • Grid Layout Screen • 2D grid • Computation of Sun position, heliostat position and blocking/shading • Visualization Screen • Sun View, tower View and heliostat View Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 8

  9. Heliostat The heliostat is composed of several mirror modules rather than having single large mirror. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 9

  10. Heliostat position Field of heliostat. Grid of n rows and m columns. Tower Location. Center of the cell. Representative heliostat. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 10

  11. Shading • Shading occurs at low sun angles when heliostat casts its shadow on a heliostat located behind it. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 11

  12. Blocking • Blocking can be observed in a heliostat field by noting reflected light on the backs of heliostats. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 12

  13. Sun Calculation Position of the sun. Accuracy of 0.01 degrees (36 arc seconds) in celestial longitude 2D grid. Using date, time, north latitude, east longitude and elevation we calculated the vectors Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 13

  14. Demonstration Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 14

  15. Lesson Learned • Professional Approach. • Research Work. • New dimension and view. • Team Work. • Time management. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 15

  16. Future Work • Render multiple cells simultaneously. • Complete day visualization. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

  17. Conclusion • Visualization of Solar Thermal Power Plant is successfully deployed on iPhone/iPod-touch. • The application renders cell containing heliostats. • User can view the cell using three different views. • User-Friendly software. Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 17

  18. Timeline Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 18

  19. References • [1] “An Algorithm for the Shading and Blocking Computations of a Field of Heliostats Arranged in a Grid Layout”, Peter Armstrong, Tietronix Software, Inc September 3 2009. • [2] Unity Web Forum http://forum.unity3d.com/ • [3] The Solar Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project • [4] iPhone Publication http://unity3d.com/unity/features/iphone-publishing Visualization iPhone Fall 2009 19

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