Analysis of the Potential for Use of Floating PV Power Plant on the Skadar Lake for Electricity Supply of Aluminium Plant in Montenegro

Durković, Vladan; Đurišić, Željko

doi:10.3390/en10101505

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“…Therefore, if the effect of the water bodies on the air temperature in the photovoltaic system is known [63,85,89], this study opens new scenarios about the effects of the presence of vegetation between and around the photovoltaic panels. However, it should be noted that for the sake of simplification, the analysis has been carried out without considering the presence of panels and their arrangement difference between the simulations, which is left to future evaluations.…”

Section: Boundary Conditions Cyclicmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Their environmental impact, energy consumption and management costs are significantly reduced compared to other purification systems [82][83][84]. From an economic point of view, the positioning of the panels in the artificial basin allows the increase of energy produced compared to the ground photovoltaic system because the photovoltaic panels can exploit the solar radiation reflected by the water's surface (albedo) [63,[85][86][87][88][89]. Furthermore, the presence of water and vegetation reduces the panels' overheating, which is one of the main causes of efficiency loss of GPV systems, and improves their ecological and cultural value [56,[88][89][90].…”

Section: Step 2 Identification Of the Priority Ecosystem Services Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Conceptual Framework to Design Green Infrastructure: Ecosystem Services as an Opportunity for Creating Shared Value in Ground Photovoltaic Systems

Semeraro

Aretano²,

Barca

et al. 2020

Land

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This paper presents a conceptual framework that looks at photovoltaic systems in synergy with ecosystem services. The focus is to connect business success with social and ecological progress based on the operative concept of multifunctional land use. Such an approach attempts to harmonise the needs of the industrial processes of photovoltaic systems and the ecological and social needs of the landscape context. Different from the usual design of ground photovoltaic systems in farmlands or brownfields, a new framework is proposed, combining photovoltaic panels and vegetation. A case study is considered, applying the framework to existing photovoltaic systems in the Apulia region (southern Italy). The analysis shows how the framework has, among others, the major functions of increasing solar energy production, recycling wastewater, creating raw material for biofuel, as well as providing animal habitat and mitigating air temperature. The latter is preliminarily evaluated by means of modelling simulations performed with a computational fluid dynamics and microclimate model, ENVI-met. This approach opens up a new vision of the infrastructure design of photovoltaic systems which can produce new social and economic income.

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Section: Boundary Conditions Cyclicmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Step 2 Identification Of the Priority Ecosystem Services Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Framework to Design Green Infrastructure: Ecosystem Services as an Opportunity for Creating Shared Value in Ground Photovoltaic Systems

Semeraro

Aretano²,

Barca

et al. 2020

Land

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“…Fortunately, energy harvesting technologies for lake applications are in development, which have the potential to benefit Lake Atitlan if invested in when available. Examples of these are sediment microbial fuel cells tested in Taihu Lake, China, a process of generating electricity from carbohydrate and protein-rich cyanobacteria [65]; a technology added to a wastewater treatment plant to treat dissolved organic matter from raw lake water while simultaneously generating electricity using a microbial fuel cell [66]; or thirdly, a study in Skadar Lake, Montenegro, testing the potential use of floating photovoltaic cells for renewable electricity supply [67]. Another promising renewable energy in the basin is geothermal energy, a resource yet to be exploited, and the Atitlan basin is indicated as an area of interest for investment in the renewable energy [68].…”

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confidence: 99%

Lake Atitlan: A Review of the Food, Energy, and Water Sustainability of a Mountain Lake in Guatemala

2021

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This paper summarizes the findings of an extensive review of literature that was conducted to understand the historical state of the food, energy, and water nexus in the Lake Atitlan basin and to recommend incentive-based, long-term sustainable policies to become a significant driver to Guatemala’s tourism industry and GDP growth. The SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) was implemented in the basin to work towards the goal of simulating nutrient loading. A key conclusion of this review study is for the local population to have advocacy for the “zero wastewater discharge to Lake Atitlan” initiative to bring long-term benefits to lake water quality. One of the recommended policy decisions is to seek external financing from international agencies like the World Bank at low-cost interest (IDA Loans) to implement waste management systems and pay this external debt by putting a small but affordable tax on tourists visiting the lake. Once a culture of zero municipal effluent discharge to Lake Atitlan is adopted by the local population, the livelihood of residents will become sustainable and the standard of living will increase because of improved water and air quality, making Lake Atitlan a haven of tourism for Guatemala and lifting its economy.

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“…Moreover, the application of explicit and implicit temperature correlations is not limited to performance assessment of PV systems only. The temperature correlations also facilitate performance evaluation of PV-Thermal (PVT), 26,27 building integrated PV (BIPV), 3,28 concentrated PV (CPV) 29 bifacial PV 30 and floating PV (FPV) systems 25,31 ; however, such installations are very less in comparison with ground installations for which these temperature correlations have been reported. For a BIPV system operational at a site in Thailand, Trinurku et al 3 compared the effectiveness of two correlations and found that the heat exchange between module and environment is greatly influenced by air gap and tilt angle between the rear surface of PV module and roof.…”

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Assessment of different correlations to estimate distinct technology PV module operating temperature for Indian site

Mohammed

Gupta

Sastry

et al. 2019

Energy Science & Engineering

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India is implementing one of the world's largest solar PV program. For better performance assessment of large PV installations, module temperature plays an important role. Estimation of power generation in hot climatic countries like India can be improved by the use of appropriate module temperature correlation. The accuracy of module temperature correlations has been observed to be related with climatic conditions. In this work, different explicit and implicit correlations have been evaluated in different temperature ranges based on frequency of occurrence of three very different technology PV modules: amorphous silicon, hetero‐junction intrinsic thin layer, and multicrystalline silicon at Indian site. Results show that Faiman correlation is most efficacious for all technology PV modules under highest frequency of occurrence temperature range. It has been observed that accuracy of correlations decreases from low module temperature range toward high module temperature range for all technology PV modules, except in case of Faiman correlation. In case of multicrystalline silicon, which is most widely used technology, the variation in accuracy of correlations was highest. This frequency of occurrence‐based comparison of correlation's accuracy is efficient and beneficial for better performance assessment of PV systems, especially in Indian context due to its large solar mission.

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Analysis of the Potential for Use of Floating PV Power Plant on the Skadar Lake for Electricity Supply of Aluminium Plant in Montenegro

Cited by 54 publications

References 23 publications

A Conceptual Framework to Design Green Infrastructure: Ecosystem Services as an Opportunity for Creating Shared Value in Ground Photovoltaic Systems

A Conceptual Framework to Design Green Infrastructure: Ecosystem Services as an Opportunity for Creating Shared Value in Ground Photovoltaic Systems

Lake Atitlan: A Review of the Food, Energy, and Water Sustainability of a Mountain Lake in Guatemala

Assessment of different correlations to estimate distinct technology PV module operating temperature for Indian site

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