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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Solar Powered"”.
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Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods
Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has been steadily expanding over the past decade. While decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels will be beneficial for the environment, increasing our exposure to an intermittent renewable resource could have negative consequences on the electric grid. There can …
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Low cost solar powered water pump
… study describes the development of a prototype solar energy powered water pump. The system was developed in an attempt to meet the following requirements and constraints: Cheap, convenient and easy manufacture, reliability and low maintanance of the system, no auxiliary power requirements, and …
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Development of an asynchronous solar-powered cooker
One reason that solar cookers have not gained widespread acceptance is because their use has proved inconvenient and impractical. Users are restricted to cooking when, and where, the sun is shining. Furthermore, the cooking temperature can not readily be raised or lowered as desired. In contrast, …
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Solar-powered carousel for hands-on teaching
This thesis is the design of a solar-powered carousel that informs the public about the setup and capabilities of solar-powered systems. It is designed as a mobile tool that can be moved among college campuses, businesses, and residential neighborhoods to provide hands-on demonstrations about solar …
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Investigations into solar powered diffusion-absorption cooling machines
Solar thermal driven or assisted absorption cooling machines are gaining increasing importance due to the continually growing demand for airconditioning in domestic housing as well as office and hotel buildings. Presently there are no thermally driven absorption cooling machines available on the …
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A cost effective solar powered led street light
A cost effective solar powered LED street light was designed based on the current solar powered street light installed at Masjid Nurul Huda, Kampung Gentisan, Sepanggar, Sabah, Malaysia. A new load profile is obtained based on a thirty day data collection at site utilizing motion sensor to record …
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Aerodynamic optimization of a solar powered race vehicle
… optimization was performed on Tesseract, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team's 2003-2005 solar car using Wind Tunnel 8 at Jacobs/Sverdrup Drivability Test Facility in Allen Park, MI. These tests include angle of attack and ride height optimization, as well as vehicle-level details such as wheel …
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Investigations on Solar Powered Direct Contact Membrane Distillation
… the investigation, focus is moved to waveguide solar energy collector. The idea behind an ideal waveguide is to reduce the complexity of modeling solar energy collection. The mathematical model provided in this analysis can be extended to a family of non-imaging optics in solar energy and serves …
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Towards building reliable solar-powered remotely-deployed sensing systems
… and rely on unstable energy sources (e.g., solar energy). Therefore, building remote sensing systems and collect data of interests from them are confronted with unique challenges. First, data collection is subject to loss in communication because wireless links that such systems rely on are …
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Optimizing the performance of solar-powered absorption cooling systems
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1980
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A cost optimization of solar-powered, drip irrigation systems
… presents a design and cost optimization for solar-powered, drip irrigation systems. Historical irradiance data and crop consumption data are considered and modelled during these design steps. A cost optimization is utilized in order to determine low-cost, optimum configuration that meets the …
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Cost optimization of a solar-powered electrodialysis desalination system
… operation and low environmental impact, solar photovoltaics (PV) are an attractive power source for off-grid systems. One application of PV is for powering village-scale desalination systems, which are needed in regions with a saline drinking water supply and an unreliable electric grid. …
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Improving electrical performance of reliable solar-powered irrigation system
A solar-powered irrigation system has been developed to address the lack of affordable irrigation solution for the marginal farmers in India. An MIT spinout, Khethworks, has designed an efficient water pump with low power rating, and created a low-cost irrigation system with the pump, a …
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A prototype energy management system for a solar powered cycle
Bibliography: leaves 92-93.
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A maximum power point tracker optimized for solar powered cars
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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GreenGlove: A Solar Powered Heated Glove to Help Maintain Comfortable Temperatures
… is a heated glove that operates using flexible solar panels. While conventional heated gloves currently on the market rely on battery power to operate, GreenGlove harvests 100 percent of its energy using solar power. Through this, GreenGlove is able to provide a more sustainable alternative to …
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Supercapacitor assisted LED (SCALED) converter technique for solar powered DC-microgrids
… and industrial buildings are presently AC powered. However, they contain electronic equipment that is internally dependent on a bulk DC power rail with multiple DC-DC converters or DC-AC converters to supply motors controlled by variable speed drives. The overall efficiency of an electronic …
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Exploring the Concept of a Deep Space Solar-Powered Small Spacecraft
… modest payload requirements to study the outer Solar System (OSS) with the capabilities of low-power nano-satellites may enable much more affordable access to deep space. This paper explores a design concept for a low-cost, small spacecraft, designed to study the OSS and satisfy mission …
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Feasibility and Design of Solar-Powered Electrodialysis Systems for Agriculture Applications
This paper presents photovoltaic-powered electrodialysis reversal (PV-EDR) as a promising desalination technology for agricultural applications in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Water scarcity in MENA has led to reliance on brackish water for irrigation of crops. Irrigating crops with …
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A strategy planning program for the MIT solar powered racing vehicle
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989.
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