Fulton Carlos Reategui Ordoñez, Fernando Paredes Marchena, Juan Eduardo Reategui Ordoñez, Hugo Guillermo Jimenez Pacheco
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Abstract
This research designed and built an automatic and portable cleaning mechanism for photovoltaic panels (PVs). The climate variation defined the amount of accumulated dust; this modified the load efficiency (η) by 11.05% on average, reaching a maximum of 39.6% in the hour of greatest solar spectrum. The highest value obtained of fill factor (FF) was 0.29 with a clean PV compared to 0.25 of a dirty PV, in all measurements the dust decreases the FF. In this study the power (W) loss should not be greater than 2.17 W, which can be because of dirty panels with dust; and the FF greater than 71%. The amount of accumulated dust decreases the FF, for this reason the cleaning mechanism must be programmable, must be portable and adjustable to different PV sizes.
期刊介绍:
IJPEC highlights the latest trends in research in the field of power generation, transmission and distribution. Currently there exist significant challenges in the power sector, particularly in deregulated/restructured power markets. A key challenge to the operation, control and protection of the power system is the proliferation of power electronic devices within power systems. The main thrust of IJPEC is to disseminate the latest research trends in the power sector as well as in energy conversion technologies. Topics covered include: -Power system modelling and analysis -Computing and economics -FACTS and HVDC -Challenges in restructured energy systems -Power system control, operation, communications, SCADA -Power system relaying/protection -Energy management systems/distribution automation -Applications of power electronics to power systems -Power quality -Distributed generation and renewable energy sources -Electrical machines and drives -Utilisation of electrical energy -Modelling and control of machines -Fault diagnosis in machines and drives -Special machines