Solar Panel Racking Design

Week 4:                                     Solar Panel Racking Design

For this week, I continued reading the existing research  and  related projects to have a better picture of the solar panel racking design and to find a solution for solar panel position. In term of racking design for solar panel, since we have to build a 18m long track that only have two supported poles at each end of the track, my team and I thought that it would be better to change the direction of the roof rack so that the weight of the roof would act upon the two supported poles rather than along the tracking itself. To have a better visualization, the following sketch can explain it all. In addition, the new design could help support an upward force on the track. Therefore, the track would be more stable.

 For solar panel position, the best solution is to have a curved design with an tilted angle of 37 degree. There other solutions such as solar trackers; however, these solutions are more expensive than the stable design.



(New solar panel racking design)


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