Optimizing water usage in a mechanical solar panel cleaning device

Wash-Bots加拿大有限公司是一家位于艾伯塔省埃德蒙顿的小型加拿大公司(不到50名员工)。Wash-Bots已将其庞大的车辆清洁业务扩展到清洁太阳能电池板。通过曝光许多不同的大型兆瓦太阳场，他们决定开发一种更简单的装置来解决清洁太阳能电池板跟踪太阳的场的挑战。这些田野的电源线沿着地面延伸，这给拖拉机操作的清洁系统带来了困难，这些系统必须沿着一排排的电池板行驶。WASH-Botshas创造了他们的第一个原型，但需要一些技术研究来减少用水量和优化清洁。红鹿学院的制造创新中心-技术获取中心(CIM-TAC)将帮助他们解决这些技术问题。一旦开发出来，Wash-Bots将制造、维护并向世界各地的太阳能领域销售这些设备。

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.