JODHPUR INSTITUTIONS OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY

ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING

WIRELESS POWER
TRANSMISSION
VIA
SOLAR POWER SATELLITE

GUIDED BY:ROF. CHANDRA SHEKHER

BY:ABHISHEK SUNDRANI

WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION

(WPT)

transmission of energy from one place to anot

out using wires.

ventional energy transfer is

wires

the wireless transmission is made possible by

us technologies..

HISTORY

kola Tesla in late 1890s

oneer of induction techniques
s vision for World Wireless System
e 187 feet tall tower to broadcast energy
people can have access to free energy
ue to shortage of funds, tower did not
perate

HISTORY (Cont.)

a was able to transfer energy from

e coil to another coil

managed to light 200 lamps from a

tance of 40km

idea of Tesla is taken in to research after 100

a team led by Marin Soljai from MIT. The pr
named as WiTricity.

Why not wires???

As per studies, most electrical energy transfer

through wires.

Most of the energy loss is during transmission

On an average, more than 30%

n India, it exceeds 40%

Why WPT ???

eliable
fficient
ast
ow maintenance cost
an be used for short-range or long-range

How Safe is WPT????

man beings or other objects placed between the

nsmitter and receiver do not hinder the transm
ower.

gnetic field tend to interact very weakly with t

logical tissues of the body, and so are not pron
use any damage to any living being.

WPT BASICS:-

e are mainly 3 major types of wireless energy transfer

rt range INDUCTIVE COUPLING

dium range RESONANT INDUCTION

g range
ower transfer ELECTROMEGNETIC WAVE

Types of WPT
1) Ground based power
transmission
2) Space based power
transmission

ace-based power transmission

ower transmission

is

preferred

is (obviously) cheaper per noontime watt, but:

gets full power 24 hours a day

more Watt-hours per day per peak watt
rage required for nighttime power
gets full power 7 days a week no cloudy days
gets full power 52 weeks a year
g winter nights, no storms, no cloudy seasons
delivers power where its needed

round solar sites (deserts) are rarely near users

takes up less, well, space
nnas are 1/3 to 1/10 the area of ground arrays
nnas can share land with farming or other uses.

over

SPS

Solar Power Satellite

Power Satellites (SPS) have proposed to collect sola

gy in space and beam it down to the Earth.

WHY TO USE SPS????

ere is no air in space, so the satellites would receive somewhat more intense sun
naffected by weather.

e SPS concept is simpler than most power systems here on earth.

lar radiation can be more efficiently collected in space, where it is roughly three
mes stronger than on the surface of the Earth and it can be collected 24 hours p
ince there are no clouds or night in high Earth orbit).

S does not use up valuable surface area on the Earth

asic steps involved in the conversion of solar energy

city and delivery are:
Capture solar energy in space
and convert it to electricity

Transform the electricity to radio

frequency energy and transmit it
to Earth

Receive the radio frequency energy on

Earth and convert it back to electricity

Provide the electricity to the utility grid

How SPS works?????

ADVANTAGES.

mited energy resource

rgy delivered anywhere in the world

fuel cost
CO2 emission

mum long-range environmental impact

r radiation can be more efficiently collected in

DISADVANTAGES.

h costs

al cost even given cheap launchers

d require a network of hundreds of satellites

ble health hazards

ze of the antennas and rectennas

ynchronous satellites would take up large sections of s

erence with communication satellites