Electrostatic cleaning system for removal of sand from solar panels

Kawamoto, Hiroyuki; Shibata, Takuya

doi:10.1109/pvsc.2013.6744107

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“…This method is traditional in comparison with the rest of the tested methods. The authors (Kawamoto and Shibata 2015) have been developed an improved cleaning system that uses electrostatic force to remove sand from solar panel surface. The designed cleaning system is demonstrated and found that more than 90% of the adhering sand is repelled from the PV module surface.…”

Section: Dust Cleaning Methods On Solar Pv Panel Surfacementioning

confidence: 99%

An experimental study on effect of dust on power loss in solar photovoltaic module

2017

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In the present study, a detailed investigation on air dust particles effect on photovoltaic (PV) model performance has been carried out. The scanning electron microscope analysis of the collected dust samples was being carried out, and the obtained images were being analyzed in order to observe the character and topography of the dust sample particles. The data for dust samples of different weights with change in power loss in a PV module at three solar irradiations levels of 650, 750 and 850 W/m 2 have been collected. In present study, the effect of environmental dust particles on power loss in PV module has been evaluated by measuring the electrical performance index such as voltage, current and power. The minimum power value of 3.88 W has been observed during the accumulation of rice husk on PV module.

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Section: Dust Cleaning Methods On Solar Pv Panel Surfacementioning

confidence: 99%

An experimental study on effect of dust on power loss in solar photovoltaic module

2017

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“…Because the charged or uncharged lunar dust has a negative influence on the operation of mechanical system, lunar dust simulant was used in the series of experiments. Also, other researchers investigated removal of the fine particles from the surface of solar cells [20,21], the transport of toner particles by traveling wave [51,52] and the decontamination of the silicon wafer [53,54]. Due to its advantages such as low discharge voltage of about 1 kV and scalability of electrode size, microplasma was used for particle removal [55].…”

Section: Particle Removalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The removal or transfer of fine particles is important for global environmental problems such as PM 2.5, semiconductor industry dust contamination, [16] or for the exploration activities on the moon [17,18]. Due to the electrostatic and dielectrophoretic forces, particles can be removed from surfaces of solar cells or from components in electronic industry in the case of dust contamination [19][20][21].…”

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confidence: 99%

Applications of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Microplasma

Shimizu¹,

Krištof²,

Blajan³

2019

Atmospheric Pressure Plasma - From Diagnostics to Applications

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Dielectric barrier discharge microplasma is a nonthermal plasma discharge at atmospheric pressure which due to the micrometer size dielectric layer between the grounded and high-voltage energized electrodes enables to drive the device at less than 1 kV. Microplasma is an economical and ecological alternative for conventional technologies used for NOx removal, indoor air cleaning, surface treatment of polymers, biomedical applications such as transdermal drug delivery, or as an actuator. In this chapter, microplasma applications such as indoor air purification, skin treatment for drug delivery, particle removal, and flow control are presented.

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“…So they are just doing primitive cleaning and the efficiency of working in this direction is low. Moreover, other academic studies are not at the desired level in terms of the overall system efficiency, although these studies focus on the new concept of mechanical, electrostatic or chemical cleaning of the PV panel surface [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. In this case, it is necessary to utilize artificial intelligence and it is thought that the system efficiency will increase and the operating costs will decrease.…”

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A new intelligent system design for cleaning the photovoltaic solar panel surface

Mutluer

Erat

2019

International Journal of Energy Applications and Technologies

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Nowadays electricity is generated by solar energy through photovoltaic solar cells and the system efficiency developed in this direction is being investigated. The efficiency of the photovoltaic panels used to transform solar energy into electricity is utmost importance. Dusting, equipment which are used for photovoltaic systems (DC conductors, inverter, panel interior design, etc.), shadowing, amount of radiation and many other factors affect to the efficiency of photovoltaic panels. Some of these are resolved in the installation of the system, while others are changed over time. For a good efficiency of the system during operation, at bottom, photovoltaic panel surface must be kept clean and so it can be absorb more effective solar radiation. The surface cleaning is empiric in many studies which manual or automatic; it can actually be by an intelligent system. In this study, an intelligent cleaning system based on fuzzy logic with arduino microcontroller was designed to automatically clean the photovoltaic panel surfaces. Thanks to the membership functions of the fuzzy logic as temperature, shadowing, dusting and output current of the panel, the designed system is enabled to operate efficiently. Two membership functions of each of these input functions have been determined. Detailed information about the membership functions of the inputs of the system is given in the system design section. These membership functions decide whether the system will be activated or not. The design purpose is to minimize the efficiency losses due to dusting and dirt on the panel surface and to allow for maximum electrical energy production. As a result, without waiting for the cleaning period, the loss of energy production is eliminated and the efficiency was increased by 15-20 percent.

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Electrostatic cleaning system for removal of sand from solar panels

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

An experimental study on effect of dust on power loss in solar photovoltaic module

An experimental study on effect of dust on power loss in solar photovoltaic module

Applications of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Microplasma

A new intelligent system design for cleaning the photovoltaic solar panel surface

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