{"title":"Fault Detection in Photovoltaic Systems Using Optimized Neural Network","authors":"Partha Kayal, Abdul Vasih T. V.","doi":"10.3103/S0003701X22600850","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0003701X22600850","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fault detection in photovoltaic (PV) arrays is one of the prime challenges for the operation of solar power plants. This paper proposes an artificial neural network (ANN) based fault detection approach. Partial shading, line-to-line fault, open circuit fault, short circuit fault, and ground fault in a PV array have been investigated, and a data set is synthesized to evaluate the impact on maximum power amplitude and number of power peaks under various exposure of irradiance and temperature. The ANN model has been trained considering irradiance, temperature, maximum power, and the number of power peaks corresponding to the different faulty conditions and non-fault situations. The considered ANN model has been optimized in order to increase the accuracy of fault identification. A particle swarm optimization-based algorithm has been employed to find the optimum number of neurons in the hidden layers to achieve the highest possible prediction accuracy on the test data set. The performance of the optimized neural network has been further cross-validated by an arranged data set containing all the types of faulty conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is verified by comparing the results with existing methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41088847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. A. Zgliui, M. S. Tivanov, N. N. Curmei, L. V. Dermenji, L. I. Bruc, D. A. Serban
{"title":"Structure of Ag-Containing Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films, Obtained by Spray Pyrolysis","authors":"A. A. Zgliui, M. S. Tivanov, N. N. Curmei, L. V. Dermenji, L. I. Bruc, D. A. Serban","doi":"10.3103/S0003701X23600790","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0003701X23600790","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kesterite Cu<sub>2</sub>ZnSnS<sub>4</sub> thin films were synthesized by the spray pyrolysis method with subsequent annealing at temperatures in the range from 425 to 525°C. To understand the impact of Ag on the Cu<sub>2</sub>ZnSnS<sub>4</sub> structural properties, changes in the elemental and phase composition, as well as microstructure were studied by electron microanalysis, X-ray phase and Raman analysis, scanning probe microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The obtained samples have a compact morphology without appreciable voids and pores and crystallize in the tetragonal structure of kesterite CZTS. Phase analysis indicated incorporation of Ag in different concentrations without formation of other impurity compounds. An increase in the annealing temperature leads to an increase in the coherent scattering region, while the stoichiometric ratio of metals to chalcogen approaches 1, remaining close to that upon Ag alloying.</p>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41088852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
U. A. Shaislamov, A. S. Esbergenova, K. Mukimov, O. N. Ruzimuradov
{"title":"Design and Development of Novel Nanostructured Visible-Light Active Photoelectrodes based on TiO2 Nanorods for Solar Hydrogen Generation","authors":"U. A. Shaislamov, A. S. Esbergenova, K. Mukimov, O. N. Ruzimuradov","doi":"10.3103/S0003701X23600339","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0003701X23600339","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Single crystalline rutile TiO<sub>2</sub> nanorods were synthesized by using low temperature hydrothermal synthesis method. Activity of the TiO<sub>2</sub> nanorods in the visible light range was achieved by introducing low bandgap semiconductor materials, such as CdS, CdSe, and CdS/CdSe and their photoelectrochemical performances were comparatively investigated. Morphological, microstructural and photocatalytic characterization results revealed that TiO<sub>2</sub>/CdS/CdSe composite photoelectrode demonstrated superior photocatalytic performance compared to others owing to single crystalline TiO<sub>2</sub> core component as well as favorable band alignment of the sensitized CdSe/CdSe nanoparticles.</p>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41088853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Solar Inverter Performance for both Stand-Alone and Grid Connected Systems","authors":"Md. Ehtesham, Mohmmad Ahmad, Sheeraz Kirmani, Majid Jamil","doi":"10.3103/S0003701X22601259","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0003701X22601259","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents a detailed performance analysis of multilevel inverter for both stand-alone and grid connected PV systems. Here, converter circuit is not only tested for parameters like total harmonic distortion (THD), power output and system efficiency by connecting the non-linear load but the variations of power factor is also considered which is not found commonly. First the simulated results for THD, power output and efficiency are tabulated with variation of load power factor individually for both systems and best operating power factor is found with respect to distortions and efficiency respectively. For Stand-alone system, circuit efficiency as high as 96.8% is achieved when operated at 0.85 power factor. Then the analytical analysis has been carried out for grid connected system where efficiency of 84.3% is achieved for 60<sup>o</sup> grid phase angle and 75.8% for 10<sup>o</sup> and thus proposing operation at higher grid phase angle. Harmonic components have been further reduced and brought below 5% level by means of passive filters. Finally, to validate the proposed outcome, simulated results have been compared with analytical results and corresponding plots have been shown.</p>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41088830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Abdalla, W. El-Osta, Y. F. Nassar, W. Husien, E. I. Dekam, G.M. Miskeen
{"title":"Estimation of Dynamic Wind Shear Coefficient to Characterize Best Fit of Wind Speed Profiles under Different Conditions of Atmospheric Stability and Terrains for the Assessment of Height-Dependent Wind Energy in Libya","authors":"A. Abdalla, W. El-Osta, Y. F. Nassar, W. Husien, E. I. Dekam, G.M. Miskeen","doi":"10.3103/S0003701X23600212","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0003701X23600212","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Assessment of wind potential at a certain site requires an accurate estimate of wind speed at different heights other than that at the measured altitudes. Extrapolating wind data is affected, among other parameters, by the spacing height of the measured wind data. An estimate of the wind shear coefficient (WSC) is needed in order to develop the predicted wind speed profile. In this paper, the effect of spacing height of wind speed measurements on the WSC estimation is investigated using the power-law model, while taking into consideration the effect of the atmospheric stability. Estimation of WSC that would give the nearest value of the extrapolated wind speed to the measured value was performed at three different terrains and promising wind farm locations in Libya. The obtained results indicate the undeniable fact that WSC depends on time, altitude and the spacing height. The value of WSC of the lower measuring spacing height of 20–40 m gives best estimate to wind speed profiles for all atmospheric stability conditions for the two southern cities, while the second spacing height (40–60 m) gave best estimate of wind speed profile for the coastal site. Adopting the proposed WSC instead of the value of seventh in wind potential assessments, leads to an increase in the productivity of wind turbines at rates of 8 and 16% at hub heights of 50 and 100 m, respectively. This in turn will reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and enhance the competitiveness of wind energy in the energy market.</p>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41088835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Energy Performance of Nanofluid-Based Spectral Splitting Photovoltaic/Thermal Collectors of Different Designs","authors":"Guoqing Yu, Linghao Dai, Lin Gu","doi":"10.3103/S0003701X2360039X","DOIUrl":"10.3103/S0003701X2360039X","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nanofluid-based spectral splitting photovoltaic/thermal (SSPV/T) system is an emerging means of achieving full-spectrum utilization of solar energy. In this paper, one-dimension models for nanofluid-based spectral splitting photovoltaic/thermal collectors designs are presented and validated by the experimental results. The energy performance of SSPV/T collectors of different structural designs is analyzed and compared with conventional collectors. The results show that for SSPV/T or conventional photovoltaic/thermal collectors, an insulated cover is very important, especially for thermal efficiency. The thermal efficiency of Design C (cover-insulated SSPV/T) is nearly four times of Design A (non-cover-insulated SSPV/T), while the electrical efficiency is only reduced by 0.7%. The analysis indicates that at present technologies, the spectral splitting PV/T collectors have no obvious advantages than conventional PV/T collectors whether for non-cover-insulated or cover-insulated PV/T collectors. Additionally, Design F (conventional cover-insulated PV/T with low-e coating) performs better than Design C (cover-insulated SSPV/T), low-e coating (high transmittance) is very promising in improving PV/T thermal efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41088869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biogas Production based on Thermophilic Methanogenic Fermentation of Chicken Manure","authors":"","doi":"10.3103/s0003701x23601874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3103/s0003701x23601874","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>The paper presents data on the study of the kinetics of gas formation from chicken manure under thermophilic conditions. It was shown that the volume of biogas for 30 days in the control variant did not exceed 85 dm<sup>3</sup>, whereas with the addition of 10 and 20% of the balanced thermophilic methanogenic association as an inoculate was 150 and 180 dm<sup>3</sup>, respectively, and the methane content in the biogas composition reached up to 70 and 65%, respectively. It was shown that bacteria belonging to the Enterobacteriacea family, as well as some pathogenic bacteria and helminths, were not found in the fermentation system under thermophilic conditions.</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140033821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Degradation and Performance Changes of the Pap-Namangan Solar Photovoltaic Plant","authors":"","doi":"10.3103/s0003701x23601497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3103/s0003701x23601497","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>This article presents the results of degradation studies and performance changes (for 7 years) of solar panels of a solar photovoltaic plant located in the Pap district of the Namangan region of Uzbekistan using the IEC 61724 standard. The solar photovoltaic plant is located in a zone of sharp continental climate, built from polycrystalline photovoltaic panels and has a power of 130 kW. The analysis of monitoring system data showed that the average degradation rate of solar panels is 0.224%/year, which is comparable to the values obtained by the same method for other power plants with similar characteristics. The degradation value is determined from the slope of the annual temperature-adjusted productivity factor. The annual productivity ratio varies from 75.89 to 93.54%, depending on the season, i.e., the value is higher in spring and summer, lower in autumn and winter, with an average value of 87.22%. The average annual changes in the reference and final generation are 4.12 and 3.67 h, respectively.</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140033817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Photovoltaic Cell Generations and Simplified Overview of Bifacial Photovoltaic Cell Technology","authors":"","doi":"10.3103/s0003701x23600911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3103/s0003701x23600911","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Throughout this article, we explore several generations of photovoltaic cells (PV cells) including the most recent research advancements, including an introduction to the bifacial photovoltaic cell along with some of the aspects affecting its efficiency. This article focuses on the advancements and successes in terms of the efficiencies attained in many generations of photovoltaic cell and discusses the challenges of each generation. Monocrystalline silicon dominates the solar cell market, and other technologies are still being developed in order to commercialize them. As an illustration, recent solar cell technology, known as the fourth generation and containing graphene, has been discussed. To determine if the damaged solar panel pieces would function or not, a test was conducted, it showed that even after being cut into small pieces, the open circuit voltage had not changed. The bifacial photovoltaic technology has been briefly reviewed in the review, including the substrates used, cell texturing, antireflection coating, cell reflectors, etc. Bifacial photovoltaic (PV) performance will continue to profit from studies on higher conversion efficiencies linked to monofacial PV cells. It is important to do studies within the area of bifacial PV modules in order to boost their performance, efficiency, and market value globally.</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140033567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of the Sb/Se Ratio on the Structural and Electrical Properties of SbxSey Films","authors":"","doi":"10.3103/s0003701x23600959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3103/s0003701x23600959","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Sb<sub><em>x</em></sub>Se<sub><em>y</em></sub> thin films were obtained from precursor of pure antimony and selenium granules evaporated in the temperature ranges from 980 to 1025°C for Sb and 415 to 470°C for Se by chemical molecular beam deposition method on glass substrates. It was found that the films consist mainly of the Sb<sub><em>x</em></sub>Se<sub><em>y</em></sub> phase and have a different Sb/Se ratio in the range from stoichiometry to 0.89. Controlling the fraction of components allows to change the orientation of crystallites, which, in turn, leads to changes in electrical conductivity.</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":475,"journal":{"name":"Applied Solar Energy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.204,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140033684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}