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A
Seminar
on

“ SOLAR POWER SATELLITES”

Presented By
PAVAN M.MALI

Guided by
Prof. R.R.BARSHIKAR SIR

AY 2019-20
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Introduction
➢ The exponential increase in population has led to the global crisis
such as global warming,environmental pollution and rapid decrease of
fossil reservoirs.
➢ The new millennium has introduced increased pressure for finding
new renewable energy sources.
➢ Building a power sration in space to transmit electricity to earth by
way of radio waves.
➢ Solar power satellites convert solar energy into electrical energy and
then to microwaves and send them as a beam to a receiving antenna
on the earth for conversion to ordinary electricity.
➢ Solar power satellite is a clean, large-scale, stable electric power
source
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SPACETENNA:[THE ANTENNA ON SATELLITE]
➢ An Antenna is an electrical device which
converts electric power into radio waves.
➢ The transmitting antenna on the horizontal
under surface faces the Earth and the other two
sides of the prism carry solar arrays.
➢ The microwave produced are travels through
atmosphere and is collected by RECTENNAS on
Earth.
➢ The Spacetenna has a square shape whose
dimension is 2.4×2.5km and which is regularly
filled with 1936 segments of sub array.
➢ There will be about 2.6 million antenna
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RECTENNA
➢ An antenna comprising a
mesh of dipoles and diodes
for absorbing microwave
energy from a transmitter
and converting it into
electrical power.
➢ Microwaves are received with
about 85% efficiency and
95% beam will fall on the
Rectenna.
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Literature Review
Author Publication Title of Paper Parameters Outcome
Lyle M.Jekins IEEEAC paper Concepts for 1.SPS concept update 1.The strucure can be minimize
#1184 Version Demonstration of 2.DESIGN OF SPS with same power.
6 ,2011 wireless power 3.POWER 2.Transmission can be easily
transfer for space TRANSMISSION OF held without harming
based solar power. SPS environment.

Space based solar 1.More power save in satellite

Suvin Nair,Ravneet International and less power loss due to
power plant in a 1.Satellite to convert
Kaur,Prashant Journal of conversuon.
heliocentric orbit. solar enegy to
Singh Aerospace and
Mechanical microwave.
Engineering
2016
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REFERENCES
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Peace,”Electrical World and Engineer. Jan. 7, p. 21, 1905.
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Wireless”.
[3] Matsumoto, H., “Research on Solar Power Station and Microwave Power Transmission in
Japan : Review and Perspectives”, IEEE Microwave Magazine December 2002, pp.36-45.
[4] Sivan, L., “Microwave Tube Transmitters Microwave Technology Series 9-“,Chapman &Hall,
1994.
[5] Hatsuda, T., K. Ueno, M. Inoue, “Solar power satellite interference assessment” IEEE
Microwave Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, Dec. 2002, pp.65-70.
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