Characterization of Electrodynamic Screen Performance for Dust Removal from Solar Panels and Solar Hydrogen Generators

Mazumder, Malay K.; Horenstein, Mark N.; Stark, Jeremy W.; Girouard, Peter; Sumner, Robert C.; Henderson, Brooks; Sadder, Omar; Ishihara, Hidetaka; Biris, Alexandru S.; Sharma, Rohit

doi:10.1109/tia.2013.2258391

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“…The categories of cleaning solutions considered in the study included the following: manual cleaning, mechanized cleaning, hydraulic cleaning, installed robotic cleaning and deployable robotic cleaning. The review also revealed various researchstage technologies such as electrostatic curtain technologies (Mazumder et al, 2013(Mazumder et al, , 2007Biris et al, 2004) and hydrophobic nanocoatings (He et al, 2011;Parkin and Palgrave, 2005;Zhu et al, 2010;Park et al, 2011;Niu et al, 2009). The comparative survey indicated that the overall cost of installed robotic systems could be, at least in some cases, the lowest of all the systems.…”

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Impact of dust deposition and brush-based dry cleaning on glass transmittance for PV modules applications

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Impact of dust deposition and brush-based dry cleaning on glass transmittance for PV modules applications

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“…On the other hand in arid area it is found to be lower. So rain plays a very important role in reducing both temperature and dust of PV module [3,4]. …”

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Solar PV Performance-Issues and Challenges

Kumar¹,

Kaur²

2014

International Journal of Innovative Research in Electrical, Ele

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Abstract:The output of the solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays is not constant throughout the day. It varies with time. Output change with the climatic condition, it varies in summer winter and rainy season. So we cannot get the maximum output all the time. This paper discuss the factor that effect solar PV performance in different environment condition and location of PV module. These factors may be orientation of the PV module, tracking the sun, temperature of PV module, incidence/tilt angle of the PV panel, shading of the panel, mounting rooftop material, mounting height, solar irradiance, type of PV module, and dust on module. Above said are some important factor that significantly affects the performance of solar photovoltaic cells. So need to be discussed.

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“…Although cost is a function of many parameters, including inflation and geographical location, Table II provides a good representation of the percentage of each sector toward the total cost. [21], consisting of a series of transparent interdigitated electrodes embedded in a transparent dielectric film, can be used as a viable dust mitigation system for removing dust particles from solar-collector surfaces. Unlike the aforementioned methods of actively cleaning for maintaining a clean surface, the EDS method requires no mechanical movement or expensive and interruptive manual cleaning.…”

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Mitigation of soiling losses in concentrating solar collectors

Sayyah

Horenstein

Mazumder

2013

2013 IEEE 39th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)

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The adverse impact of soiling (dust deposition) on solar collectors, and the mitigation of the related energy yield losses, are the main scopes of this paper. While soiling related losses have been studied more extensively for flat-plate photovoltaic (PV) panels, this study focuses primarily on the impact of dust accumulation on concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) systems. We report on different methods used for cleaning solar collectors: (i) natural cleaning by rain and snowfall, (ii) manual cleaning by water and detergent, and (iii) an emerging method of dust removal by electrodynamic screens (EDS). Development of EDS technology as an automated, low-cost dust removal method which does not require any water or manual labor is presented.

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Characterization of Electrodynamic Screen Performance for Dust Removal from Solar Panels and Solar Hydrogen Generators

Cited by 115 publications

References 18 publications

Impact of dust deposition and brush-based dry cleaning on glass transmittance for PV modules applications

Impact of dust deposition and brush-based dry cleaning on glass transmittance for PV modules applications

Solar PV Performance-Issues and Challenges

Mitigation of soiling losses in concentrating solar collectors

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