Optimizing water usage in a mechanical solar panel cleaning device

优化机械太阳能电池板清洁装置的用水量

• 批准号: 565228-2021
• 负责人: Toews, Maureen
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Red Deer Polytechnic
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=723983
• 关键词: Optimizing; water; usage; mechanical; solar

Wash-Bots Canada Ltd. is a small (less than 50 employees) Canadian company located in Edmonton, Alberta.Wash-Bots has expanded their large vehicle cleaning business into cleaning solar panels. Through exposure tomany different large mega-Watt solar fields, they decided to develop a simpler device to address the challengeof cleaning fields in which the panels track the sun. These fields have power cables running along the groundthat pose a difficulty to tractor-operated cleaning systems that must drive along the rows of panels. Wash-Botshas created their first prototype but require some technical research to reduce water usage and optimizecleaning. Red Deer College's Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing -Technology Access Centre (CIM-TAC)will help them with these technical issues. Once developed, Wash-Bots will manufacture, maintain, and sellthese units to solar fields across the world.

Wash-Bots Canada Ltd. 是一家小型（员工少于 50 名）加拿大公司，位于艾伯塔省埃德蒙顿。Wash-Bots 已将其大型车辆清洁业务扩展到清洁太阳能电池板。通过接触许多不同的大型兆瓦太阳能场，他们决定开发一种更简单的设备来解决清洁太阳能电池板跟踪太阳的场地的挑战。这些场地的电力电缆沿着地面延伸，这对拖拉机操作的清洁系统造成了困难，因为拖拉机操作的清洁系统必须沿着成排的面板行驶。 Wash-Bot 创建了他们的第一个原型，但需要一些技术研究来减少用水量并优化清洁。红鹿学院的制造创新中心-技术访问中心（CIM-TAC）将帮助他们解决这些技术问题。一旦开发完成，Wash-Bots 将制造、维护这些装置并将其出售给世界各地的太阳能发电场。