New approach towards mitigating photovoltaic panels soiling by dew flowing

Autor: Dounia Dahlioui, Bouchra Laarabi, Lassana Traore, Samira Belihi, Abdelfettah Barhdadi
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29:48975-48985
ISSN: 1614-7499
0944-1344
Popis: Soiling has a crucial importance regarding its impact mainly for countries that have high soiling levels, dust storms, water scarcity and a great solar energy potential as the case of Morocco. Soiling mitigation is therefore mostly required during spring, due to higher pollen concentration, and summer, due to the lack of heavy precipitation. In this work, systematic measurements of soiling ratio were made in Rabat, city of north-western Morocco, during almost 1 year. Soiling has been evaluated considering the effect of dual-axis tracking that was compared to photovoltaic (PV) on fixed structure. A soiling rate of about 0.22%/day has been found for static PV while only 0.1% was found for PV on tracker. An additional approach of cleaning has been proposed in this paper which aims to use dew water. Using glass samples that were exposed to real environmental conditions, similar to the exposure conditions of PV panels, the soiling ratio was determined. At sunrise time, the subsequent change of the glass sample, from the horizontal position at night into the position of 30° tilt angle during the day, is performed to promote dew flow by the force of gravity acting on the droplets of dew. It has been found that relying only on the change of tilt angle, the average soiling losses were only 3.8% compared with 11.8% for fixed PV. This approach can reduce soiling similarly to solar trackers.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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