Solar Energy Project Ideas

 

Solar energy is a form of energy which is widely available in abundance and have many different uses. Energy provided by sun in 1 hour, if measured; is equivalent to energy consumed on earth in one whole year. And for this reason, their is ample opportunity to work and use this energy in comparison to any other form.

It is radiant light and heat from the sun, has been harnessed by humans since ancient times from drying clothes to generating electricity using a range of ever-evolving technologies.
Though it has many uses,but we often this energy as solar power, which is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP) with the help of lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam.

Solar Powered Motor

This project has 12V DC water pump,12V 7ah battery that was charged by my 6.5 watt solar cell and was able to pump water. This system seems to work really well.



Solar Water Heater

We can save large amount of electricity if we start using solar water heater at the place of traditional heaters. If we implement it using cogeneration, it would be really effective.

What wiki says about Solar Water Heater?

Related Pdf :
Parabolic Trough Water Heating System ( pdf )
Complete detail of this project with photos, outline and drawings. 

Sun Tracker Project : devices that orient various payloads toward the sun.

Produce Fuel using Sun Energy: harness energy from the sun to produce synthetic gas consist of water, CO₂ and Water.

Remote Control Plane : Flying Solar RC Plane's Panels, Batteries and Motors. Working on this project is easy, for experiment purpose, you can purchase electrical aircraft and replace it source of charging from batteries to solar.

3D Solar Cells : New form of cells, that capture nearly all of the light that strikes them. When used in the place of traditional cells, efficiency of the cell improves considerably.

LED Lights : Light emitting diodes are very reliable and can works in extreme conditions.When powered by sun, they can be installed at the distant places in minutes.

Stirling Engine Generator 

Solar Cooker
Solar cooker is a device which uses solar energy to heat and cook our food. It is very simple device and works on basic concept of concentration of energy at one point.It takes only 45 minutes to build a simple cooker.

Why it is important?
Energy plays a vital role in human development and welfare.Solar energy is the cheapest, inexhaustible
and can be used for cooking as well as various other activities.

Things you will need:
• shoe box
• aluminum foil
• string
• tape
• straws
• manila folder
• marshmallows (white and
chocolate, or other color)

How to build solar oven?
Pizza Box Solar Cooker (pdf)
Design, Development and Testing of Paraboloidal Solar Cooker
Build Reflective solar cooker(pdf file)

Solar Powered Mobile Charger

Solar Toy Car

 

A solar vehicle is an electric vehicle powered completely or significantly by direct solar energy. Usually, photovoltaic (PV) cells contained in solar panels convert the sun's energy directly into electric energy. The term "solar vehicle" usually implies that solar energy is used to power all or part of a vehicle's propulsion. Solar power may be also used to provide power for communications or controls or other auxiliary functions.

What is Solar Car ?
How can solar panels power a car?

How Solar Car Works ?

Solar car works on a very simple concept. It has solar panels on its top, which charge battery attached to it via wire. This battery is connected with small DC motor installed in the chassis of the car. This motor is connected to the wheels of the car via gears. In simple words, it is basic Remote control cars with only difference is that its battery gets charged via solar panels instead of traditional sources.

How to make Solar Powered Toy Car(Video) :




Solar Powered Refrigerator

Solar Chimney

Beam Circuit Solar Engines

Solar Powered Bird Scarer 

Steam engine powered by sun light

Solar Turbine generator

Solar Powered Path Finding vehicle

Solar Powered Generator 

Solar Powered Bicycle

Solar Powered Bag 

Solar Insect Robot

Solar powered automatic rain operated wiper

Air Conditioner 

Water Pumps

Solar Powered Boat 

Water Purification System : Filter water anywhere, at the place of camping or in a village where electricity is not available easily.

Carbon Solar Cells

Nanowires : New Innovation in solar energy

Other Webpages:

Stanford Solar Car Projects

Bob Solar Project Blogs

Solar Power Demonstration Projects

High Tech Projects

Creative Projects

1.Painting with three colors : Art tips by Nita Leland

2.You can write your autobiography :

Writing Autobiography is one of the best things in the world. It lets us know about ourselves, and we get to know both positives and negatives of our life, who are our true friends and who are not! Sometime in our hectic life, we forget about many important parts and beings related of our lives and this project will help you in doing the same.


How to start?
Writing Biography is not an easy task, even if it's your own. So, start working towards it as soon as you finish reading this post.
To write your biography, you will need help from lot of people and this is a best part of it as you discuss about your life with others and get their point of view.

1. You need to do discussions with your family, friends and even enemies 
2. Carry pencil and paper during these discussions. 
3. Ask as many questions as you can and without getting offended with their replies.
4. Don't try to edit negatives and things you don't like.(This will help you in long term)
5. Arrange all the text chronologically and do write them in your textbook according to your convenience.
6. Read each conversation twice or more, and find a way and right words to write it interesting.
7. Write it in language you are comfortable in.

3.Prepare a poster report on some decade for eg 90's .

4.You can redecorate your room :

It will not only give you satisfaction, but also some freshness in your life. Before doing anything, you need to start with easiest task first, it will stimulate you for bigger task ahead.

Steps for Redecorating:

1. Take paper and write about changes you want to do with your room.
2. Before shifting anything, do care about your comfort, whether it will increase or not.
3. Arrange room in a way, by which you can save your time; for ex. if you like reading books on bed,make necessary arrangements, so you can grab your books right from your bed.
4. Redecorating needs time, try to do it on Saturday evening, where you will get Sunday as an extra day.You can either finish your job or if you will have finished it already, you will get a time for rest.

5.Prepare greeting cards for different occasions

Yes, you can purchase them but still handmade card is more precious gift for its receiver than any card purchased.

As you know, making cards requires creativity and various items, you should not wait for the occasion to start. Whenever you get time , make one or two of them for different occasions and give them to your loving one's when occasion arrives.

Starting early has added benefit of getting enough time to purchase things required for card making such as gum, sheets, colors etc.

6.Project about World War 2

World War 2 is one of the most important event of our history and it still affects our lives in one or other way. You can write about reasons, and long term effects of this war. You should try to find answers of questions such as How it changed the dynamics of world politics? What was the reasons behind it? Was it possible to stop it from happening?

7.Write about world most influential and important leaders

Computer Final Year Project Ideas

Computer scie nce is the scientific approach to computation and its applications.As a discipline, computer science spans a range of topics from theoretical studies of algorithms and the limits of computation to the practical issues of implementing computing in hardware and software.Due to its range sometime it gets difficult to find topic or idea for final year project.Though I have tried to share as many ideas as possible but it is difficult to cover all the projects on single page.For that reason I have divided this subject into different subsections such as PHP,Java,VB etc. and their links are available at the bottom of post. I hope you will find them useful.

Attendance Management:Using this project you can maintain attendance of the employees.Moreover it can generate monthly and daily report of their attendance and salary slips.Source code
GEMINI: Generic Monitoring Infrastructure for Grid computing and Applications
What is grid Computing?
Details about Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics

District collect orate office information integration
Project Details

Jquery Simple Income Tax Calculator 

Automation of ticket booking for performances(ASP.net)
Ticket Booking by Jignesh Desai

Automation of Stock market operations
Stock Market Application

IR Based video streaming on mobile phones
Project Information
Source Code of video Streaming in Pocket PC

Security using IP camera
Video Surveillance using C#
Article about this project

Pervasive Computing
What is pervasive Computing
More about the project

Online recruitment(ORS)
Download

Embedded web server for remote access
Free embedded Ethernet
CodeProject Embedded Server Project

Online on-request courses coordination (ORS)
Templete of Various Documents of this Project from Sourcecodeworld.com (doc)

College management software
Download

Help Desk (OHD) for the facilities in the campus
Download

Development of a micro controller module for a mobile feed dispenser

Call Center Management
Download

8085 Simulator
Download Source Code and Application

2D and 3D Games
Download

Campaign Information System
Download Project Document and Student kit

Pocket Dictionary
Download Open Source Project

Voice over IP
Download Project

File Transfer using PSTN
Download

Security using IP Camera
Download

Virtual Router
Let us find out more about it

Auto- summarize tool
Download Report of this Project ( Pdf) <- Right click and save target as or save link as

SMS Games

SMS based Juke Box

SMS ticket Reservation

Sms Source Code Website

Universal Remote using IR on Pocket PC
Download

Canteen Automation
Download

Library Management(LMS)
Download

Electricity Billing  - Visual Basic , VB.NET
Medical Billing - Visual Basic , VB.NET
SMART BILLING 1.0 - Visual Basic , VB.NET
Card Billing - Visual Basic , VB.NET
Billing and Customer Account Maintenance - Visual Basic , VB.NET

Software Defined Radio

Quiz Application

Discussion Forums 

Income tax Calculator 

Digital Audio Processing 

Spam filter for Search Engine

Hostel Management 

Hospital Management

Personal Finance Management System

Online Auctioning Shop for a campus/organization
Download

Network Print Spool er
Download

HTTP Caching Proxy Server

Vehicle Access Control

Intelligent car transportation

Online leave management

Online Library management ( Download )

Online Sales and Inventory management

Employee Transfer Application 

Feature-rich, Resume Builder Application

Safe and secure Internet banking

Online internet knowledge management for the college (KMS).

Online application for the Training and Placement Dept. of the college

Sixth Sense Technology of Pranav Mistry

Repository and Search Engine for Alumni of College (RASE)

Split scree application for the data entry of the shipments. 

e-Post Office

Lost Articles and Letters Reconciliation

Student Project Allocation management with online Testing (SPM)

Practical online Testing (OTS).

Resource management (RMS)

Online Tickets reservation system for Cinema halls.

Time table generation system for a college.

User friendly ,feature-rich, practical Appraisal Tracker

Development of Effort Tracker

Feature-rich, practical “Web Enabled Estate Agent”

Web Based Mail Client

Work flow based Complaint management (where the complaints are received through emails)

Application for receiving orders for printing digital photographs

work flow based purchase request approval

Defect Tracking System (DTS)

Product Master maintenance

Recipe management

Employee Separation System (E-Separation)

Miles Acquisition System (MAS)

Network packet sniffer

Web Based Meeting Scheduler

Employee Cubicle management

Web based Stationery management

Online Course Portal for a campus

Online Polling System

Design and development of Point Of Sale [ POS ]

Design and development of Speed Cash System [ SCS ]

practical online Survey Tool (OST)

Web/Email based Search Engine

Human Resource Management System 

Optical Character Recognition 

Online Auction System

Web-based Recruitment Process for the HR group for a company

Online Learning System

MetaSearch Engine 

Online Health Monitoring

Meeting Room Booking System

A Tutor: is an Open Source Web-based Learning Management(LMS), designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind.

Lifi Project : It is similar to wifi but twice as faster.For example WIFI has speed of 54 Mb/s it has around 100 Mb/s speed. It use light to transmit data. It has LED which transmit digital data as 0 (light switch off) or 1(light on) .
Knowledge sharing system

Related Projects :
Computer Engineering Project ideas
Java Project Ideas

Python Projects
Php Project

Iphone Applications

C++ Projects
VB 

How to answers Projects

Mechanical engineering Project Ideas

Robotics 
Robotics would be a good choice for mech students because topics based on robots are very new and innovative in comparison to any other project idea.Moreover, If your robot works as expected on final day, it will definitely make you win.

Though I  have written separate post about robotics but for a starting point I have given all the important links in this section. Using these links you can strengthen your basics before designing some complex machine.

• How to build a Robot
• Robot Basics(pdf)
• Computer Controlled RC Car
• Robotic Spider
• Solar Insect Robot: You can build a insect robot powered by solar as your project. It will help you to understand the concepts of both Robotics and Solar power.
• Fire Fighting Robot
• Cleaning Robots
• Line Follower Robot
• Robotics
• Autonomous Agile flying machines

Solar Energy 
Solar energy is one of my favorite topics because though its working is easy to understand but ideas related to this topic are very useful for our future energy needs.

Concept : Generally they work on this concept:

Solar Energy --->Solar Panel---> Electricity--->Machine(Grinder, Juicer, Mobile Charger, Bag etc.) or Storage(Battery)
Solar Energy-->Heat-->Cooking, Boiling, Water Filter etc .

Important thing to consider in your assignment is that how you can improve its efficiency either for boiling purpose or for heating. For ex.  Recently discussed Spherical cell concentrate more sun light at one place and therefore generates more power similarly scientist have found out that nano solar cells are more flexible and more efficient than any other cell available.

Solar Compressor:
You can build something which gets its power from Sun Energy. For e.g., power your AC of a small room using compressor which get its power from solar panel.Such as Solar Powered Air Conditioner
In this example, it is a small room. Half ton capacity will be sufficient. You will need at least kWh/24 hours. This may require 10 to 12 square meter solar panel plus battery and inverter.

• Solar Power Air Compressor
• Uses of Solar Power Air Compressor
• Solar Water Heater
• Solar Energy Project Ideas
• Solar Energy Science Topics
• Green House Project Video
• Home based energy ppt in pdf format(239 kb file)
• Build your own Solar Powered Water Pumping Station
• Solar Powered Live Stock Watering System
• Solar Powered Automatic head light Dim/Bright Controller
• Solar Powered Boat
• Solar Powered Steam Engine
• Solar Turbine Generator : How we can use solar powered steam engine to generate electricity.
• Solar Powered Water Pumps
• Solar Powered Bicycle : Power your electrical cycle using solar energy
• Solar Powered Bag
• Solar Powered Water Purification System
• Solar Powered Remote Control Aircraft
• Solar Powered Rain operated Wiper 

Books on Solar Energy (pdf): 
Solar
Solar2
Hovercraft

Hovercraft definition by wiki : click here
It would be awesome if you design a hover car using tools of your house.

How to Build my own Hovercraft?

Engines 
Stirling Engine :

Video's and Complete Explanation of Stirling Engine Project

Stirling Engine Mini RC Car: We had discussed both Stirling Engine and Remote control cars in two separate posts. In this post we will combine these two technologies.

Solar Powered Stirling Engine Generator:

Steam engines 
These engines are powered by steam and building them will help you to understand the concept and working of steam engines.Though steam engines are most ancient engines, but it is still one of the most widely used engine.Thermal power plants are one of such use.Nowadays, due to the problem of global warming, we should find a way to produce steam using renewable sources of energy.Couple of renewable steam engines, I discussed on this blog are Solar Powered steam engine and Solar Turbine Generator.

Related:

Homemade Steam Engine
Steam engine powered bicycle

Wind Energy:

Wind Mill Water Pump :
How to build wind mill pump?

Related links :
How to make model of Wind Mill?
Wind Mill Power Generation System
Wind turbine kites

Wind Powered Drip irrigation System
Wind Mill Pump

Remote Control Cars

Building Fast Remote Control Cars
RC Control Computer Cars

Related links :
Demolition RC Car
RCC
Hydrogen cell operated remote control car
Computer controlled car

Trains
Maglev Trains
Propeller Monorail
3D Solar Cells  : Very Effective Design of solar cell. Used to enhance the efficiency of Solar Cell Significantly.

Hydraulic Car Lift : This project deals with fluid and how we can use it to lift the car.
Power Generation using Footsteps : Piezoelectric techniques used to convert energy of our footsteps in electricity.
Stair climbing Hand Cart : Handcart which would help you carry heavy materials upstairs.
Car Monitoring System
Highway Wind Turbines : Simple demonstration of how to use wind turbines at the divider of the road to generate electricity.
Power generation using Railway Tracks : See how we can use Variable capacitor for generating electricity.This is latest project in the field of renewable energy.
Stirling Engine Mini RC Car
Nitro Cars  : Cars powered by methane and nitro methane.
Fruit Picking Robot : Do you think robot should work in the garden? If yes , then this project is for you!
Soccer Playing Mini robot : Do you like robots and soccer both then you would like this idea too.
Produce fuel using solar energy : Produce synthetic gas using CO2, oxygen and water.
Pedal Powered Water Filter: Filter water throughout the year ,day or noon using the simple concept of evaporation and condensation.
Pedal Powered Juicer Grinder
Light Weight Floating Wind Turbine This simple project demonstrate the power of floating turbines.
Bio gas Powered Water Heater 
Bicycle Powered Cell Phone Charger : Have you thought about charging your cell phone using your cycle. This idea would discuss about all that.
Steam engine powered Bicycle : Whenever we thought about steam engines, the first thought comes to our mind is train engine,but have you ever thought of steam engine powered by cycle?
Mechanical Sprayer : Spray pesticides using mechanical energy instead of fossil fuel or electricity.
Mechanical Creeper for Disable Person
Waste Management Machine
Water Powered Generator
Air Exchanger Ventilation System
Fuzzy logic approach for Traffic signals control of an isolated intersection( Project Report in PDF)
Synchromesh gear

Latest Projects:

Formula One Racing Car : Students of Amity University, Noida manufactured a car which can make anyone proud. It weights around 340 kg including driver and its top speed is 105km/hr.M More Info

Protective Gloves: Another project which I have seen recently is electric gloves which can be used by girls for their protection. They are easy to wear and protect the wearer by giving electric shock.

More :
CAD Project Ideas & Catia Projects  (Design project for students)
Thermal Engineering Projects
HydroPower Project 
Aeronautical Projects 
Design and Development of Smoke flow Visualization system
Tricycle powered by pedal and electricity
Design and fabrication of Sub Marine
Car Locator Project
Generate Electricity from Dance Floor
Human Power Harvesting
Hydraulic Regenerative Braking System
Mini Bio Gas Fuel Turbine
Power generation using footsteps
mini homemade wood lathe machine
Perpetual Motion Machine 
Pedal powered refrigerator
Jaipur Foot
Automatic Car Parking 
Self Balancing Cycles and Unicycles
IE Engine Projects
Electronic Fuel Injection
Study of cooling Tower
Air Compressed Cars 
Air Bike 
Mini Scooter 
Hydrogen Powered Vehicle
Escalator Compatible Wheel Chair
Fuel Energizer
Thermal Engineering Projects
Automobile Projects 
RC Helicopter
Carbon Solar Cells
Autonomous aerial vehicle
Build Electric Two Wheeler Bike
Biogas Powered Vehicle
Non Conventional Energy Projects
Manual Pump
Cogeneration 
Kinematic Project
Bicycle Sprayer 

Solar Object Lifting Jack : It is motorized electronic lifting jack which is powered by solar energy.

Paddle powered mobile charger : It is based on dynamo chain concept.We have been using dynamo in bicycle from years. The best part about this project is, mobile charger kits are available at online stores. You can learn the whole concept by purchasing a kit online to disassemble it. 

Lean Manufacturing and value stream mapping

Lean manufacturing is about reducing waste spending in an operation, such as long lead times,
defects and material waste . This principle was first used in Toyota around 1988 and sometime also referred as Toyotism.

Why it is relevant now?

Competition in manufacturing sector is intense and it is increasing with each passing day. Companies are shifting their manufacturing base from developed countries to developing countries to become cost effective. To survive in this stiff competition lean manufacturing can play vital role.

Today we will discuss about major project "Value Stream Mapping for Lean Manufacturing" submitted for fulfillment of their major degrees  by Wolfgang Apel, Jia Yong Li and Vanessa Walton at WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (WPI).

In this report we will see how CIS(Central Industrial Supply), a manufacturing company that produces electro-mechanical components had reduced their production time to almost 50 %.


How it was achieved?
To achieve their target, first they used Value Stream Mapping which is a technique used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer.This map can be drawn using paper and pencil; however more advanced maps are created
using Microsoft Visio as well as Microsoft Excel.Following is a basic drawing example showing how it is done:

At the second step this team uses arena simulation software to simulate possible future states, in third step they studied companies background and working procedure and in fourth step they gave their recommendations which you can read in their report itself.

Other Projects:

Development of a lean operations system in start-up 

Students will be expected to interface with plant management and manufacturing engineers to improve plant layout, production scheduling, process flow, work cell design, and inventory control systems. Since this project involves a start-up operation, student recommendations are expected to contribute to future design and layout of new assembly lines and inventory control systems at the facility.

I hope this article helped you in understanding Lean manufacturing implementation.