Electrostatic Removal of Particles and its Applications to Self-Cleaning Solar Panels and Solar Concentrators

Mazumder, Malay K.; Sharma, Rohit; Biris, A.S.; Horenstein, Mark N.; Zhang, J.; Ishiga, Hiroaki; Stark, Jeremy W.; Blumenthal, Sam; Sadder, Omar

doi:10.1016/b978-1-4377-7885-4.10005-3

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“…The solar panel is dusting by electrodynamic screen (EDS) this screen placed on pv module can grantee the automated and constant removal of dry dust deposition without use of liquid or any moving hardware parts [34]. This is known as active erasing of dirt process that consumes high potential difference to supplying the conductors (for producing electric field) of a clean screen that supports in removing the charge and upcharge dirt particle of substance from the PV Module by fluctuating them over edges of the module screen.…”

Section: E Electrodynamic Screens (Eds)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Photovoltaic Module Efficiency Optimizing Techniques: A Review

Jamali¹,

Bhutto²,

Saand

et al. 2021

Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences

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The solar irradiation falling on PV-module that converted into heat hence the reducing efficiency. The dust deposition decreases efficiency and resist the amount of solar radiation interacting on surface of PV-panel. The mismatch position placed of PV string can make the mutual shading between the PV-Module, Due to this reason of shading the totally efficiency of PV system falls. To overcome all mentioned problem, in this paper the review of environmental factor and their latest minimizing techniques for optimizing performance of PV-Module is discussed. This paper merely focused on the review of cooling, Cleaning and shading effect techniques.

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Section: E Electrodynamic Screens (Eds)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Photovoltaic Module Efficiency Optimizing Techniques: A Review

Jamali¹,

Bhutto²,

Saand

et al. 2021

Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences

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“…Frequency of oscillation is set in such a way that dust particle moves along the line of an electric field to one of the edges of the module thereby cleaning the surface. Uncharged particles failing to form the electric curtain are soon charged through either polarisation or electrostatic induction process and hence removed from the module [62]. An Electro-Dynamic Screen (EDS) is one of a kind which uses the same principle of standing wave-type electric current.…”

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confidence: 99%

Current Practices of Solar Photovoltaic Panel Cleaning System and Future Prospects of Machine Learning Implementation

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Solar Photovoltaic System (SPV) is one of the growing green energy sources having immense penetration in the national grid as well as the off-grid around the globe. Regardless of different solar insolation level at various regions of the world, SPV performance is also affected by several factors: conversion efficiency of PV cell technology, ambient temperature and humidity, soiling and seasonal/weather patterns. The rise in PV cell temperature and soiling is found to be detrimental issues regarding power plant performance and life expectancy leading alterations in the levelised cost of energy (LCoE). In this paper, authors present a short glance about factors affecting the performance of photovoltaic modules and re-discuss their usability in cleaning intervention decision-making models. With some highlights on the essence of cleaning to mitigate the soiling issues in PV power plants, this paper presents the existing cleaning techniques and practices along with their evaluations. The need for an optimal cleaning intervention by using advanced scientific tools rather than by visual inspection is drawing the attention of PV experts. The authors finally suggest a schematic of a decision-making model which involves the use of probable parameters, data processing techniques and machine learning tools. The implementation of data science and machine learning in a solar PV panel cleaning system could be a remarkable advancement in the field of renewable energy.

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“…Large scale PV systems are immensely precious on solar panels. Conventionally, the panels are proven to be expensive in large scale PV system [5]. Accumulation of dust particle increases the temperature of solar panel up to 10% resulting decrease in net output power [6].…”

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IoT Based Self-Cleaning and Automated Fault Detection of Solar Panel System

2019

IJITEE

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Solar photovoltaic panel tends to lose its performance, when foreign particles start accumulating over it. To get panel at its best, frequent cleaning action is required by some means. It would be beyond imagination, if there comes a task to clean entire solar farm covering miles squares and more, hence a better solution is required. Solar photovoltaic panel cleaning system is a robotic system designed to clean solar panel surface; in order to sustain the efficiency. To avoid frequent site visits, robots can be placed in each array, and by further deploying Internet of Things (IoTs), distant monitoring and cleaning can be achieved. The command for the robots can be given by distant operator through the cloud they are connected with. To make this system even smarter, a separate sensing unit shall be installed along with different sensors that can detect the limit of dust deposition and shall automatically order to perform cleaning action. This study presents the need of cleaning system, which is followed by design and fabrication of robot that meets the design specification and required performance. A month-long data is collected and analyzed to formulate and validate the automatic cleaning algorithm in real environment. From this study, it is concluded that, the IoT can be implemented in the solar PV cleaning system which can improve the system performance significantly.

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Electrostatic Removal of Particles and its Applications to Self-Cleaning Solar Panels and Solar Concentrators

Cited by 36 publications

References 8 publications

Photovoltaic Module Efficiency Optimizing Techniques: A Review

Photovoltaic Module Efficiency Optimizing Techniques: A Review

Current Practices of Solar Photovoltaic Panel Cleaning System and Future Prospects of Machine Learning Implementation

IoT Based Self-Cleaning and Automated Fault Detection of Solar Panel System

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