Design and Performance Analysis of a Solar Powered Dough Maker

All the domestic loads in the kitchen are powered by AC supply. Usages of domestic loads are drastically increasing each day and the power needs are also increasing, but generation of power is not sufficient to meet the demand. Because of the non-availability of the fuel and coal, the world focuses on generating power from renewable energy resources. Renewable energy in general and Photovoltaic (PV) in particular are generating DC supply. Hence, PV cannot be directly used, because our domestic loads are AC. DC to AC convertion causes losses and the efficiency is reduced. This system is proposed which comprises a PV generator, a Permanent Magnet Direct Current motor for driving a dough maker smart system for automated motion which can be controlled by any Smart phone. The main part of our system architecture has a micro-controller Atmega328P which drives the various directions of the dc motor for forward and reverse motion of the dough maker. Also, the proposed system is analyzed to obtain the performance ratio and average efficiencies for total system. Further, obtaining the optimum PV array size based on the Life Cycle Cost analysis for the dough maker is presented. The complete operation and implementation of this scheme is also shown and steady state results are presented.