Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures

This report serves as a documentation of the author’s work during his final year of study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with him taking up the solar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) project as his final year project. The author is part of the solar energy team, which comprises of two peopl...

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Main Author: Ong, Zhen Iang.
Other Authors: Ng Heong Wah
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-532482023-03-04T19:33:03Z Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures Ong, Zhen Iang. Ng Heong Wah School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering This report serves as a documentation of the author’s work during his final year of study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with him taking up the solar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) project as his final year project. The author is part of the solar energy team, which comprises of two people, the other person being Andy. The report includes calculation on the mass of solar modules and MPPTs, which is useful in the estimation of the centre of gravity of the solar UAV. It also pushed the solar energy team to think of a new method for encapsulating the solar module, which will be discussed in the report, as the conventional method of encapsulation makes the module too heavy for usage on the UAV. Sub-zero temperature testing of components has also been done. Test methodologies, results, and discussions of test data are to be talked about extensively in this report, and hopefully it will provide a better insight into the performance of each component at the cruise altitude of the solar UAV. Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace Engineering) 2013-05-31T02:25:16Z 2013-05-31T02:25:16Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53248 en Nanyang Technological University 72 p. application/pdf
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Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures
description This report serves as a documentation of the author’s work during his final year of study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with him taking up the solar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) project as his final year project. The author is part of the solar energy team, which comprises of two people, the other person being Andy. The report includes calculation on the mass of solar modules and MPPTs, which is useful in the estimation of the centre of gravity of the solar UAV. It also pushed the solar energy team to think of a new method for encapsulating the solar module, which will be discussed in the report, as the conventional method of encapsulation makes the module too heavy for usage on the UAV. Sub-zero temperature testing of components has also been done. Test methodologies, results, and discussions of test data are to be talked about extensively in this report, and hopefully it will provide a better insight into the performance of each component at the cruise altitude of the solar UAV.
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title Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures
title_short Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures
title_full Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures
title_fullStr Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures
title_full_unstemmed Solar powered UAV-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures
title_sort solar powered uav-solar power system : environmental testing for components at sub-zero temperatures
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