Industrial Production and Field Evaluation of Transparent Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) Film for Water-Free Cleaning of Solar Collectors

Mazumder, Malay K.; Bones, Joshua; Morales, Cristian; Acuña, H.; Elinger, Carolyn; O’Connor, Kevin; Eriksen, Ryan; Bernard, Annie; Horenstein, Mark N.; Yellowhair, Julius E.; Joglekar, Nitin; Garner, Sean

doi:10.1109/pvsc40753.2019.8980599

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“…Mazumder et al [159] reported similar experimental results and highlighted the low cost and energy consumption of EDS, namely $0.005 and 0.2 Wh per m² per cleaning cycle. After 3 years of study (2017-2020), Mazumder et al [160] reported that the dust removal efficiency and reflectivity restauration of EDS are both high and that EDS can operate under various temperatures and relative humidity; the authors concluded after an economic analysis that EDS technology is on a commercial level.…”

Section: Electrodynamic Screens "Eds"mentioning

confidence: 63%

Dust impact on concentrated solar power: A review

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Gama

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et al. 2021

Environmental Engineering Research

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Many sites with high solar radiation face high dust loads that reduce energy generation by concentrated solar power plants. This review presents the attenuative impacts of atmospheric aerosols, as well as reflectivity losses due to soiling of solar reflectors, by covering both experimental investigations and numerical studies; along with presenting the theoretical background. The chemical nature of aerosols, and the physics of soiling and atmospheric extinction phenomena (scattering and absorption) are also reviewed. Suspended particles like aerosols result in atmospheric extinction of the solar radiation that reaches the concentrators, and the deposition of these particles on the solar reflectors provokes decreases up to 80% in their reflectivity, and thus enhances the cumulus of optical losses and the reduction of energy production. Even though dust affects both CSP and photovoltaics, CSP technologies suffer more losses. The impact of dust should be particularly considered during the planning phase of solar thermal plants, since its consequent reduction in energy output can be severe. While there have been multiple papers to review dust-related problems for PV, the present paper is the first literature review dedicated to the impact of soiling on concentrated solar power.

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Section: Electrodynamic Screens "Eds"mentioning

confidence: 63%

Dust impact on concentrated solar power: A review

Zereg

Gama

Aksas³

et al. 2021

Environmental Engineering Research

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“…Experimental investigation and numerical simulation of dust mitigation used on Earth or in space has received increasing attention and has been conducted by many researchers, notably the group of Calle at the NASA Kennedy Space Center [18,19,48,49,56,59,60], the group of Mazumder in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock [2,15,20,22,26,31,32,41], the group in Qian Xuesen laboratory of space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology [64,65], the group of Kawamoto in the University of Waseda [16,47,[52][53][54], the group of Noureddine in the University of Poitiers [27,34,45,67], the group of Guo in Texas A&M University [28,29,33,36,44], and the group of Amar in Djillali Liabes University of Sidi-Bel-Abbes [43,89]. The research and findings are classified into following sections.…”

Section: Dust Mitigation (Eds)mentioning

confidence: 99%