Understanding the effects of sand and dust accumulation on photovoltaic modules

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“…We also repeated the experiments multiple times, successfully testing and ensuring the reproducibility of the results. The effect of heterogeneous dispersion, or clustering (Beattie et al, 2012) was not investigated further. Output voltage and current were measured and graphed as they were also used in previous studies (Sulaiman et al, 2011) and allow the calculation of the power generated by the PV-module.…”

“…We use these studies to guide our work, the design of our experimental simulations, the power source, recording units and interpretation. Experimental simulations have been proven to be highly illustrative, where different layers of artificial dust could be investigated under controlled conditions (Beattie et al, 2012, Goossens et al, 1993, Jiang et al, 2011, Kaldellis and Kapsali, 2011.…”

“…Experimental setups commonly used PV-modules with either a natural light or with a constant-power light source (Beattie et al, 2012, Cabanillas and Munguía, 2011, Goossens et al, 1993, Jiang et al, 2011, Kaldellis and Kapsali, 2011. Different conditions of dust accumulation could be simulated, reducing the systems efficiency by 50 % or more.…”

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Direct Beam Solar Radiation Received by Parabolic Trough Collector with Dust Accumulated on Its Surface

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