Solar Panels Cleaning Frequency for Maximum Financial Profit

Autor:	Mohammad Abu-Naser
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Engineering business.industry 021105 building & construction Photovoltaic system 0211 other engineering and technologies Environmental engineering Revenue ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 021108 energy 02 engineering and technology business Process engineering Profit (economics)
Zdroj:	Open Journal of Energy Efficiency. :80-86
ISSN:	2169-2645 2169-2637
DOI:	10.4236/ojee.2017.63006
Popis:	Allowing the dust to accumulate on solar panels without adequate cleaning leads to huge monetary losses. Proper judgment of when to call for washing of solar panels is a compromise between gross costs of cleaning the panels and how much reduction in efficiency of solar panels can be tolerated. In this paper, we derive a formula for the optimal number of days between cleaning cycles of a solar array by minimizing the cost of cleaning the array and the lost revenue from the unclean panels. The formula will aid in deciding cleaning periods based on the environment in which the solar panels are installed and cost incurred from undertaking the washing process.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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