Analytical Approach for Tracking Control System and its Instrumentation of a 30 KW CL-CSP System at RGPV Bhopal

A solar-powered cross-linear concentrated solar plant for heating and refrigeration system has been designed and implemented behind the boy’s hostel building at UIT RGPV Bhopal. The CL-CSP system is formed by sixty heliostats, rectangular collectors is mounted on a base pillar structure with vertical axis, allowing solar tracking in the Sun azimuthally plane, with the aim of maximizing radiation over the tilted surface of rectangular board that have mirror facets over it . These sixty heliostat’s control and instrumentation has been done so that mirror board could fully concentrate on four receiver line placed above the heliostats. This work describes the control system implemented to achieve accurate solar tracking phenomena. The criteria are to design and implant the control system is to maximize radiation over the tilted surface and thereby at the receiver, and to obtain a reliable and durable structure.