{"id":1217670,"date":"2022-10-06T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/knust-students-develop-cost-effective-instrument-to-measure-temperature-and-light-energy-from-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:30:18","slug":"knust-students-develop-cost-effective-instrument-to-measure-temperature-and-light-energy-from-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/knust-students-develop-cost-effective-instrument-to-measure-temperature-and-light-energy-from-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"KNUST students develop cost-effective instrument to measure temperature and light energy from the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some students at the Mechanical Engineering Department of KNUST have developed a relatively cost-effective digital instrument for measuring ambient temperature and light energy from the sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The instrument is designed to ease the daunting and expensive task of students accessing readily-available digital instruments for such purpose.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The annual energy output and effectiveness of solar photovoltaic systems may gradually reduce due to heat and other environmental factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thus, the need for scientific measurements to deepen the understanding of the global change to better design and size PV systems for enhanced performance and economic benefit.<\/p>\n

The variables are essential for research and design of solar photovoltaic (PV) and other renewable energy systems for clean and carbon neutral electricity generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Currently, most digital instruments for scientific measurements are imported into the country and they come with high initial and maintenance costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Under the supervision of Prof. George Yaw Obeng, the user-friendly and multi-metric prototype instrument was developed, employing a solar cell and other locally-acquired components.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overall accuracy of the device stands at +\/-0.053 and +\/-0.086 for the ambient temperature and solar irradiance respectively,\u201d\u00a0Prof. Obeng said.<\/p>\n

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When fully developed and commercialized, this device will be locally available and accessible at a relatively low cost to universities, high schools and STEM schools for scientific study and capacity development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This would facilitate the design and sizing of renewable energy systems, particularly solar PV systems for local electricity generation for households and industrial uses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some students at the Mechanical Engineering Department of KNUST have developed a relatively cost-effective digital instrument for measuring ambient temperature and light energy from the sun.\u00a0 The instrument is designed to ease the daunting and expensive task of students accessing readily-available digital instruments for such purpose.\u00a0 The annual energy output and effectiveness of solar photovoltaic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6849,3984,2635,5268,8907,6027,1338,1951,3264,26785],"class_list":["post-1217670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-costeffective","tag-develop","tag-energy","tag-instrument","tag-knust","tag-light","tag-measure","tag-students","tag-sun","tag-temperature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}