129 results about "Solar access" patented technology

Methods and devices are provided for improved environmental protection for photovoltaic devices and assemblies. In one embodiment, the device comprises of an individually encapsulated solar cell, wherein the encapsulated solar cell includes at least one protective layer coupled to at least one surface of the solar cell and the protective layer may be formed from a substantially inorganic material. The protective layer has a chemical composition that prevents moisture from entering the solar cell and wherein light passes through the protective layer to reach an absorber layer in the solar cell.

Methods and devices are provided for improved environmental protection for photovoltaic devices and assemblies. In one embodiment, the device comprises of an individually encapsulated solar cell, wherein the encapsulated solar cell includes at least one protective layer coupled to at least one surface of the solar cell and the protective layer may be formed from a substantially inorganic material. The protective layer has a chemical composition that prevents moisture from entering the solar cell and wherein light passes through the protective layer to reach an absorber layer in the solar cell.

A Solar Access Measurement Device (“SAMD”) located at a predetermined position is disclosed. The SAMID may include a skyline detector enabled to detect a skyline of a horizon relative to the SAMD, an orientation determination unit enabled to determine the orientation of the skyline detector, and a processor in signal communication with the skyline detector and orientation determination unit.

A solar insulation capturing and transporting system includes a solar insulation receiving member configured in combination with a dual walled conduit. Fluid is flowed through one portion of the conduit and into the solar insulation receiving member and thence into a second portion of the conduit. Heat energy captured in the fluid is then transferred, in the flowing fluid, to a use location where the energy may be usefully exploited.

A solar panel is disclosed that can be daisy-chained with other solar panels. The solar panel automatically generates output alternative current (AC) power that is in parallel with input AC power coming into the solar panel when the solar panel senses the input AC power so that the solar panel operates as a slave in this state. The solar panel automatically generates standalone AC output power when the solar panel fails to detect input AC power coming into the solar panel where the solar panel operates as a master in this state. The solar panel generates the standalone output AC power without any reliance on input AC power generated by a utility grid and / or other AC power sources external to the solar panel.

Methods and devices are provided for improved environmental protection for photovoltaic devices and assemblies. In one embodiment, the device comprises of an individually encapsulated solar cell, wherein the encapsulated solar cell includes at least one protective layer coupled to at least one surface of the solar cell. The protective layer may be a hybrid organic / inorganic material that has a chemical composition that prevents moisture from entering the solar cell and wherein light passes through the protective layer to reach an absorber layer in the solar cell.

A method of determining solar radiation exposure at a predetermined location is provided. The method may include generating a first two-dimensional (2D) matrix including a plurality of elements, wherein each element of the plurality of elements of the first 2D matrix includes an elevation / azimuth pair representing a light ray extending from the predetermined location to one or more positions in the sky. The method may further include generating a second 2D matrix including a plurality of elements, wherein each index of the second 2D matrix includes an associated elevation / azimuth pair of the first 2D matrix. Each element of the plurality of elements of the second 2D matrix represents an amount of solar radiation to impinge on the predetermined location from a direction of a respective elevation / azimuth pair.

System for providing a secure file service includes an MLS file service module (300) comprised of a cryptographic processor (302). The MLS file service module also includes an MLS file system (301) hosted by the cryptographic processor. A secure user processor (402) includes programming and communications hardware for requesting at least one classified file from the MLS file service module. The cryptographic processor includes cryptographic hardware and software to decrypt the classified file. The cryptographic processor is also performs an integrity check on the classified file. Once the file is decrypted and its integrity checked by the cryptographic processor, the MLS file service module serves the classified file to the secure user processor in decrypted form. If the classified file is an executable file, the method also includes selectively enabling a write function for program memory of the secure user processor. This write function is disabled immediately after the classified executable file has been loaded into the program memory to guard against self modifying programs.

A solar panel is disclosed that can be daisy-chained with other solar panels. The solar panel automatically generates output alternative current (AC) power that is in parallel with input AC power coming into the solar panel when the solar panel senses the input AC power so that the solar panel operates as a slave in this state. The solar panel automatically generates standalone AC output power when the solar panel fails to detect input AC power coming into the solar panel where the solar panel operates as a master in this state. The solar panel generates the standalone output AC power without any reliance on input AC power generated by a utility grid and / or other AC power sources external to the solar panel.

The present invention is a desiccant system for controlling moisture in a solar collector. The desiccant system has a desiccant bed enclosed within a housing, and is thermally coupled to the solar collector as well as being fluidly coupled to it through an orifice. Waste heat from the solar collector is conducted to the desiccant system and is used to regenerate the desiccant bed. The desiccant system includes moisture barriers which cause moisture from the desiccant to preferentially be released to the external environment rather than entering the solar collector.

A solar collector panel is disclosed for heating of air, in which the conventional insulation material on the back panel facing away from the sun is replaced by a spacing between a permeable back panel and a permeable heat absorber means, so that a heat convection airflow through the back panel and into the interior of the solar energy panel against the temperature gradient prevents the convection heat loss in the opposite direction. The back panel also reduces the radiation heat loss from the heat absorber means. Furthermore, in case the flow of air through the solar energy panel is stopped, the convection-insulation will no longer be effective, and a photovoltaic cell panel placed within the solar energy panel and generating electricity from the solar radiation will not be subjected to the damaging high stagnation temperature of a traditionally insulated solar collector panel.

Methods and devices are provided for improved environmental protection for photovoltaic devices and assemblies. In one embodiment, the device comprises of an individually encapsulated solar cell, wherein the encapsulated solar cell includes at least one protective layer coupled to at least one surface of the solar cell. The protective layer has a chemical composition that prevents moisture from entering the solar cell and wherein light passes through the protective layer to reach an absorber layer in the solar cell.

System for providing a secure file service includes an MLS file service module (300) comprised of a cryptographic processor (302). The MLS file service module also includes an MLS file system (301) hosted by the cryptographic processor. A secure user processor (402) includes programming and communications hardware for requesting at least one classified file from the MLS file service module. The cryptographic processor includes cryptographic hardware and software to decrypt the classified file. The cryptographic processor is also performs an integrity check on the classified file. Once the file is decrypted and its integrity checked by the cryptographic processor, the MLS file service module serves the classified file to the secure user processor in decrypted form. If the classified file is an executable file, the method also includes selectively enabling a write function for program memory of the secure user processor. This write function is disabled immediately after the classified executable file has been loaded into the program memory to guard against self modifying programs.

An improved solar collector pipe that directly conveys fluid to be heated and collects and transfers solar energy efficiently and directly to the internal fluid, thereby maximizing both the amount of energy transmitted to the internal fluid and the peak temperature attainable by that fluid. The solar collector pipe includes a transparent portion for admitting solar energy into the solar collector pipe. Internal to the solar collector pipe is an absorbing portion for absorbing solar energy. A conduit portion is also included and comprises a reflecting surface thereon for reflecting solar energy received through the transparent portion onto the absorbing portion. In embodiments of the invention, the transparent portion, the conduit portion, and the absorbing portion together define at least one fluid passageway for conveying the fluid. In other embodiments of the invention, an internal conduit defines a fluid passageway for conveying the fluid. The internal conduit may be supported within the solar collector pipe and supported by heat-absorbing portions, or may be placed between two solar collector pipe sections to form a single solar collector pipe with an internal conduit extending therethrough.

Methods and devices are provided for improved environmental protection for photovoltaic devices and assemblies. In one embodiment, the device comprises of an individually encapsulated solar cell, wherein the encapsulated solar cell includes at least one protective layer coupled to at least one surface of the solar cell. The protective layer has a chemical composition that prevents moisture from entering the solar cell and wherein light passes through the protective layer to reach an absorber layer in the solar cell.

An extrapolation system includes acquiring a first orientation-referenced image at a first position, acquiring a second orientation-referenced image at a second position having a vertical offset from the first position, and processing the first orientation-referenced image and the second orientation-referenced image to provide an output parameter extrapolated to a third position that has an offset from the first position and the second position.

The invention relates to a solar tube cleaning device and belongs to the field of mechanical cleaning. The solar tube cleaning device is composed of a solar tube transmission device and a cleaning device. A motor drives a planar slot type cam to rotate, and a cylindrical bump is driven by the rotation of the cam to move down to drive a solar tube in an insertion slot to slide down. During working, a hairbrush of the cleaning device is enabled to be matched with the solar tube transmitted by the insertion slot, and the positions of the hairbrush and the solar tube are fixed. An inner hairbrush enters the inner part of the solar tube and conveys descaling fluid at the same time, and an outer hairbrush covers the outer ring of the solar tube to clean the surface of the solar tube. The solar tube cleaning device has the beneficial effects that the transmission device is relatively slow in running and high in stability; the hairbrush of the cleaning device is designed into an inner layer and an outer layer, which efficiently clean the inner surface and the outer surface of the solar tube simultaneously; the inner brush is hollow and can convey the descaling fluid for the solar tube.

Methods and devices are provided for improved environmental protection for photovoltaic devices and assemblies. In one embodiment, the device comprises of an individually encapsulated solar cell, wherein the encapsulated solar cell includes at least one protective layer coupled to at least one surface of the solar cell. The protective layer may be a hybrid organic / inorganic material that has a chemical composition that prevents moisture from entering the solar cell and wherein light passes through the protective layer to reach an absorber layer in the solar cell.

An improved solar collector pipe that directly conveys fluid to be heated and collects and transfers solar energy efficiently and directly to the internal fluid, thereby maximizing both the amount of energy transmitted to the internal fluid and the peak temperature attainable by that fluid. The solar collector pipe includes a transparent portion for admitting solar energy into the solar collector pipe. Internal to the solar collector pipe is an absorbing portion for absorbing solar energy. A conduit portion is also included and comprises a reflecting surface thereon for reflecting solar energy received through the transparent portion onto the absorbing portion. The transparent portion, the conduit portion, and the absorbing portion together define at least one fluid passageway for conveying the fluid.

The invention discloses a solar energy and fuel coal coupled flexible power generation system and a running method. The system comprises a coal-fired power generation unit thermodynamic system and a high-temperature heat storing system which comprises a solar heat collection system, cold and hot heat storing medium tanks, a heat storing medium pump, a heat storing medium and feed water heat exchanger and the like and is coupled with solar thermal power generation; a heat storing medium heater is arranged in a boiler flue; the flow of a heat storing medium entering the solar heat collection device and the heat storing medium heater is adjusted through cooperation of a solar heat storing medium adjusting valve and the heat storing medium pump, therefore, influences of sunlight irradiation changes are eliminated, and the output power is kept stable; peak regulation is conducted through the heat storing medium tank, and the steam turbine output power is reduced under the stable combustioncondition of a boiler; and the flow and temperature of feed water entering the heat storing medium and feed water heat exchanger are adjusted through opening and closing of a high-pressure heater adjusting valve group, and then the system meets the requirements of the quick load changing rate of a unit. According to the solar energy and fuel coal coupled flexible power generation system and the running method, solar energy and fuel coal power generation coupling can be achieved, coal consumption is reduced, and the flexibility and economical efficiency of the unit are significantly improved.

A solar panel is disclosed that generates standalone alternative current (AC) output power where the standalone output AC power is generated from direct current (DC) power stored in a battery bank included in the solar panel. The solar panel generates the standalone output AC power without reliance on input AC power generated by a utility grid and / or other AC power sources external to the solar panel. The solar panel automatically generates the standalone AC output power when the solar panel fails to detect input AC power coming into the solar panel where the solar panel operates as a master in this state. The solar panel automatically terminates the generation of the standalone AC power when the solar panel detects input AC power coming into the solar panel where the solar panel operates as a slave in this state.

A solar cell module of the present invention is provided with a reflector that reflects incident light to a solar cell, and a reflecting surface of the reflector is in a concave-convex shape. The reflector is constructed with a diffuse reflective material that diffusely reflects light. Some of sunlight that enters the solar cell module hits a front surface of the solar cell, and the rest passes through a gap between the solar cells and then enters the diffuse reflector. The sunlight that enters the diffuse reflector is diffusely reflected, and thus an amount of light that enters a back surface of the solar cell increases. Thereby, the solar cell module can increase power generation efficiency.

A method for determining solar access at a position includes: obtaining an image of a horizon that includes a skyline; determining the azimuth orientation and the inclination of the obtained image; and determining solar access based on the skyline within the obtained image, the measured azimuth orientation and inclination of the obtained image, and a position associated with the image of the horizon. Other features and embodiments relating to solar access measurement are disclosed.

The solar desalination system is a hybrid system combining a Fresnel solar concentrator with a solar desalination still. The solar still includes an absorber base, at least one sidewall, and a hollow cover. The hollow cover has an inlet port for receiving seawater such that the seawater passes through an interior of the hollow cover and exits through at least one outlet port into an open interior region of the solar still. At least one collection duct is secured to an inner face of the at least one sidewall for collecting pure water condensate. A vacuum pump is in communication with the open interior region of the solar still through a vacuum port for selectively lowering the pressure within the open interior region of the solar still. The solar still is suspended above a linear Fresnel reflector array such that the absorber base is positioned at a focal point thereof.

The invention discloses a low energy consumption drying treatment technology of residual activated sludge. The treatment technology comprises the following steps: sending the residual activated sludge to a high speed shearing homogenizing tank, adding a treatment agent to the homogenizing tank, shearing and homogenizing the residual activated sludge and the treatment agent at 0-20 DEG C for 0.5-1 h, sending the obtained mixture to a sludge dehydrating machine, dehydrating the mixture to obtain a dehydrated sludge cake and sewage, sending the sewage to a sewage plant, further treating the sewage, sending the dehydrated sludge to a molding machine, extruding the dehydrated sludge to form strips, allowing the strips to enter a solar multilayer mesh belt type low temperature drying box through a conveyor belt, and drying the strips to obtain dried sludge with the water content being less than 15%. The technology decreases the water content of the residual sludge to 15% or less from 97% or above, and greatly reduces the volume of the sludge, and the dried sludge can be used as a further recycling raw material, or can be burnt.

Provided is a heavy salt water treatment device using ultrasonic atomization combined with solar evaporation. The device achieves the simultaneous recovery of fresh water and salt, can be used for middle and small scale desalination treatment of seawater and brackish water, and is applicable to the treatment of concentrated water generated by reverse osmosis. The device includes an ultrasonic atomization system, a solar evaporation system, a low-temperature condensation system and a photovoltaic power generation system, wherein the photovoltaic power generation system provides power for the other systems. The ultrasonic atomization system atomizes the heavy salt water into small liquid droplets, and the small liquid droplets go into the solar evaporation system; the small liquid droplets have large specific surface areas which can make them rapidly gastified in the solar evaporation system, and the salt in the small liquid droplets is separated out into small salt particles; the small salt particles impinge on a baffle and are collected according to the principle of inertial dust collection; hot steam goes into the low-temperature condensation system, a semiconductor cooling chip makes a bionic condensation plate in a low-temperature state, and the hot steam on the condensation plate is quickly condensed to form fresh water and flows into a water storage tank. The whole process is without any adverse effects, the removal rate of salt is high, the structure is simple, and the treatment of the heavy salt water is efficient.

A solar panel is disclosed that can be daisy-chained with other solar panels. The solar panel automatically generates output alternative current (AC) power that is in parallel with input AC power coming into the solar panel when the solar panel senses the input AC power so that the solar panel operates as a slave in this state. The solar panel automatically generates standalone AC output power when the solar panel fails to detect input AC power coming into the solar panel where the solar panel operates as a master in this state. The solar panel generates the standalone output AC power without any reliance on input AC power generated by a utility grid and / or other AC power sources external to the solar panel.

An improved solar collector pipe that directly conveys fluid to be heated and collects and transfers solar energy efficiently and directly to the internal fluid, thereby maximizing both the amount of energy transmitted to the internal fluid and the peak temperature attainable by that fluid. The solar collector pipe includes a transparent portion for admitting solar energy into the solar collector pipe. Internal to the solar collector pipe is an absorbing portion for absorbing solar energy. A conduit portion is also included and comprises a reflecting surface thereon for reflecting solar energy received through the transparent portion onto the absorbing portion. In embodiments of the invention, the transparent portion, the conduit portion, and the absorbing portion together define at least one fluid passageway for conveying the fluid. In other embodiments of the invention, an internal conduit defines a fluid passageway for conveying the fluid. The internal conduit may be supported within the solar collector pipe and supported by heat-absorbing portions, or may be placed between two solar collector pipe sections to form a single solar collector pipe with an internal conduit extending therethrough.

Supporting frame structure for installing plain solar cell module plates and incidental facilities on a house roof is provided. The supporting structure is in the shape of pluralities of slope structured solar cell plate mount accompanied by cleaning accesses mounted on a rectangular cube frame. Side view of the solar cell plate mount forms a rectangular triangle on a square. The angle between the sloped top surface and the horizontal base is 3 to 75 degrees, depending on the latitude of the geometric location of the place where the solar cell plate modules are installed. Pluralities of ‘T’ shape fins are welded to the solar cell module plate mount and adhered to the bottom of the solar cell module plate to eliminate heat accumulated in the solar cell module plates and maintain the temperature of the solar cells therein under 80° C. The maintenance access is a space through which a worker may easily access the solar cell module plates to clean the surface thereof and also to replace the plates.