Automatic solar panel cleaning system Design

Abstract

This paper aims to develop an automatic1 cleaning system for Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels installed on the roof of University Al-Zaytoonah faculty of IT in Jordan. The experiments were done at University Badji Mokhtar Annaba Algeria. We designed a dust detector and perform tests on it for calibration. The brain of the system is an Arduino Uno microcontroller, which gets data from the dust sensor then makes treatment and sends instructions to the system to perform the cleaning process. The cleaning process is based on-power circuit that controls the speed and direction of a motor to scan all surface of the PV panel. GUI was developed to monitor the system and sensor status. The collected data is transmitted to the central unit. Finally, the primary results obtained to meet our expatiations for optimizing the efficiency of the solar panels.