1. Solar Thermal Plant Design and Operation Suite of Tools Date: 04/30/09 Presented By: Team #3

2. Team Information Team #3 Members: Soumya Dhama E-mail: soumya.dhama@gmail.com Deepthi Mudunuri Email: deepthiathrayasa@gmail.com Sushma Korrapati E-mail: sushmakorrpati@gmail.com Ramya K Poligari E-mail: ramya.poligari@gmail.com Instructor: Dr. Kwok Bun Yue Email: yue@uhcl.eduyue@uhcl.edu Mentors: Dr. Michel Izygon Email: mIzygon@tietronix.com Mr. Peter Armstrong Email: peter.armstrong-1@tietronix.com

3. Table of Contents Introduction Shading and Blocking Solar Computation Program Project Proposal Project Requirements System Architecture Application Architecture Use Case Diagram UI Design Database-ER Diagram Database Design Demo Project Timeline Conclusion Team Roles References

4. Introduction A solar thermal power plant harnesses energy from sun to generate electricity. It uses a field of heliostats to converge electricity onto a central receiver. The entire energy is used to heat a medium and produce steam to rotate the turbines

5. Shading and Blocking Location of the heliostat is important parameter for optimization Shading – It occurs when a heliostat casts a shadow on the neighboring heliostat Blocking – It occurs when a heliostat blocks the view of the receiver of neighboring heliostat

6. Shading and Blocking

7. Solar Computation Program The Solar Computation program was developed by the Tietronix company It calculates the shading and blocking factors for a heliostat Many executions of the program generates huge volumes of data.

8. Solar Computation Program cont’d Outputs OpenGI_Helio_Dyn.txt Results.xls Run_info.txt NeighbourDistances.txt dataSar.txt The technique, process and tools to store, manage and recall information is required

9. Project proposal To develop a database to efficiently store the output data of the solar computation program The information is retrieved by various key identifiers It allows the addition and deletion of records The program is delivered as a standalone executable via a Graphical User Interface

10. Project Requirements Store the output data from the Solar Computation Program to the database Delete and update sets from storage by providing the field identifier Prevent duplicate entries in the database Facilitate multi user interaction with the database Request statistics on the sets in storage

11. System Architecture Database Client 1 User Interface Client 2 User Interface Business Logic Data Tier 1Tier 2 Tier 3 request response Data transfer Application Server

12. Application Architecture Business Logic Layer Data Access Layer Database Insert Set Delete Set Update Comments Update Set Presentation Layer

13. Use Case Diagram

14. User Interface Design C# Windows application MDI (Multiple Document Interface) –It is a way of displaying windows from where there is at least one parent and many child windows. –Why MDI? Child windows are easily managed from a single parent form A single menu and menu toolbar can be shared for other windows Possibility to work with multiple documents in one window

15. Database Design - Tables

19. Stored Procedures A total of 17 stored procedures are used in the project The advantages of using the stored procedures are: –Helps promote code reuse –Can encapsulate logic –Consistent and safe data modification

20. Demo

21. Project Time Line

22. Conclusion Database has been successfully created. The graphical user interface that was exclusively developed for this project is successfully integrated to the database. All the user and function requirements have been achieved.

23. Team Roles Team MembersRoles Soumya Dhama (Team Leader)Database design and implementation, Documentation, Website maintenance, Communication with the professors and mentors. Ramya K PoligariDatabase design and implementation, Website creation and Documentation. Deepthi MudunuriDatabase design and implementation, User Interface design, Communication with the professors and mentors and Documentation. Sushma KorrapatiDatabase design and implementation, Website creation and maintenance, User interface design.

24. References http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/classDiag ram.htmhttp://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/classDiag ram.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_modeling