Analisa Pemanfaatan Energi Surya sebagai Sumber energi pada Mesin Pengeruk Sampah Otomatis

Abstract

The title of this final project is “The Analysis towards The Use of Solar Energy as The Energy Source in Automatic Garbage Dredging Machine”. This machine is a prototype of an automatic garbage dredging machine which applies solar cell as the energy source to operate; that is by a process of energy conversion. One of big problems happening in electrical energy field is about the limited sources of fossil energy which in this case appears as the main electrical energy source in Indonesia. In order to reduce the impact of electricity dependence on the fossil fuels availability, It is a need to get a new source of renewable electrical energy. Solar cell is one of electrical energy sources which comes from the unlimited sun light, and of course it is environmentally friendly. And since the solar cell itself is about the sun, its output is possible to be unstable because it changes based on the climate change that happens around it. So, the best solution in this case is an energy storage to hold the electrical energy from the solar cell. Batteries are perfect tools to keep electrical energy and also to hold output energy from the solar cell. This research was done to explain the process of energy conversion in details, so that the electrical energy produced by the solar cell can be used to operate the machine. This machine also uses micro controller Atmega8 component as the controller so that the electrical energy that comes in it can be totally monitored.