Design And Development of Cost-Effective Automatic Solar Panel Cleaning System

Abstract

The main aim of this work is to design and develop an automatic solar cleaning system for preventing the soiling effect on PV panels. This soiling effect hinders sunlight from reaching PV panels, and it also shortens the life of solar panels in the long run. To optimize the overall function of the PV panel system, the constant soiling effect must be cleaned at regular intervals. To clean the natural dust the solar panel cleaner has been designed and implemented. The cleaning system consists motor controlled wiper and a water pump controlled by a microcontroller circuit. It has been proved that the performance of the solar panel with a cleaning system has been improved.