IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Smart solar photovoltaic panel cleaning system Smart solar photovoltaic panel cleaning system (original) (raw)
Related papers
Smart Solar Photovoltaic Panel Cleaning System
Peer Review Journal of Solar & Photoenergy Systems, 2019
With the increasing demand for renewable energy, solar photovoltaic technology is being a topic of concern. However, due to the accumulation of dust and dirt over the panel surface, the performance of the photovoltaic system degrades to a noticeable number. To address this issue: a fully automated, cost worthy and efficient system needs to be invented. This paper presents the design and fabrication process of a prototype able to clean the panel surface. The prototype of this system comprises of a cleaning robot and a cloud interface: the cleaning robot is mobile and able to clean the entire solar array back and forth, with its separately driven cleaning rotatory brush; whereas, the cloud interface is a human-machine interface featuring the distant monitoring and control of the robot. Additionally, to notify the performance of distantly placed solar farm, a sensing unit consisting of sensors was added to this system. Furthermore, to add an automatic cleaning feature, a month-long data of totally clean and dusty panel was processed with regression analysis, and the developed regression model was programmed into the sensing unit. The sensing unit added with the regression model is named as an autonomous unit, as it predicts the suitable time for cleaning action. According to the system evaluation done on a demonstration PV module, it was found that the designed system can clean dry dust accumulated over the panel's surface. Moreover, by attaching the metal rail tracks on a long solar array, the system seems to be implementable on a large scale solar farm.
Design and Development of Automated Solar Panel Cleaning Device
journal of emerging ideas and technology, 2019
The increasing awareness about the utilization renewable sources has helped solar energy to reach its pinnacle. The solar energy has grabbed the eyeball attention of much research organization to improve its efficiency. However the maintenance issue still remains ignored. This causes significant decrease in solar PV panels efficiency .The accumulated dust on solar panel block the cell from the sun's radiation and act as an adverse screening effect, it is necessary to keep the solar cells in pristine condition. The current solar panel cleaning methods like manual cleaning, water jet cleaning and robots used in large scale industries. But every cleaning method mentioned above have their own set of limitations to find its application in domestic sector. In this research the automated cleaning device is developed to fulfill the requirements of domestic sector. The main feature of this device is that it ensures three times cleaning of PV panels in its every pass. The device operates on electricity generated by the solar PV panels. The regular cleaning of PV panels using this device will increase the efficiency by 24-29 %. Thus the device positions itself as an economical alternative for domestic sector.
Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 2023
A solar photovoltaic (PV) array is part of a PV power plant as a generation unit. PV array that are usually placed on top of buildings or the ground will be very susceptible to dirt and dust. Thus, this dirt and dust will be able to reduce the performance and work efficiency of the generation unit. Cleaning PV arrays by manpower requires high effort, cost, and risk, especially in higher location. This study presents the design of a mobile robot that is used to replace human labor to clean PV arrays. That way, the PV array maintenance steps can reduce operational costs and risks. This intelligent controlled mobile robot can maneuver safely and efficiently over PV arrays. gyroscope and proximity sensors are used to detect and follow the sweep path over the entire PV array area. Proportional integral derivative (PID) control test makes the robot can stabilize in about 5.72 seconds to keep on the track. The smart PV cleaning robot has average operation time about 13 minutes in autonomous mode and 20-24 minutes in manual mode. The operation of the robot is effective to give more efficiency on the use of energy, time, and maintenance costs of PV array system.
Artificial Intelligence Based Solar Panel Cleaning Robot
2019
The abstract should summarize the content of the paper. Try to keep the abstract below 200 words. Do not make references nor display equations in the abstract. The journal will be printed from the same-sized copy prepared by you. The efficiency of Solar PV panel is greatly affected due to the accumulation of dust, dirt and sea salt on panel. This paper aims at developing a low-cost automatic robot which will smartly clean the panel. The project is divided into two parts: Cleaning System and Monitoring System. Cleaning task is completed according to the data received from monitoring system. Wireless technology has been implemented in order to collect all the data from individual panel. The power output of each panel is monitored thoroughly and depending on the information collected at each node, the cleaning action is triggered. This system is also able to detect breakage of panel. The system can be operated remotely and user can access all the information on field from any part of t...
Solar Panel Dirt Detection and Cleaning System
African Journal of Biological Sciences, 2024
The proposed solar panel dirt detection and cleaning system improves the efficiency in generating output voltage that integrates Arduino micro-controller with voltage recognition technology to enhance the efficiency of solar energy harvesting. The system utilizes voltage divider circuit to identify dirt or debris on the solar panel surface by analyzing changes in output voltage produced by the solar panel. Along with voltage divider circuit, LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) sensor is utilized to enable the cleaning process only in day time when the intensity level of the LDR is more than threshold value. Upon detection, the Arduino micro-controller triggers a cleaning mechanism to remove the identified dirt. The cleaning mechanism can be designed using actuators, brushes and other appropriate tools. The Arduino's programmability allows for customization of cleaning intervals, ensuring timely maintenance. The output voltage measurement plays a crucial role in spotting dirt accumulation on the solar panel. This ensures accurate detection, minimizing false positives and optimizing the cleaning process. Additionally, the system can be enhanced with data logging capabilities, enabling users to monitor the cleanliness status of the solar panels over time. This information can be valuable for predictive maintenance and overall system performance analysis. The voltage analysis for detecting dirt with integration of Arduino offers an intelligent and automated solution for solar panel maintenance, ensuring consistent energy output by keeping the panels free from surface contaminants.
AUTOMATIC SOLAR PANEL CLEANING SYSTEM
Energy is one of the major issues that the world is facing in India, the supply of energy has been one of the major problems for both urban and rural households. About 60% to 70% of the energy demand of the country is met by fuelwood and agriculture residues. Solar energy is a renewable source of energy, which has a great potential and it is radiated by the sun. Renewable energy is important to replace the using of electric energy generated by petroleum. Solar power has become a source of renewable energy and solar energy application should be enhanced. The solar PV modules are generally employed in dusty environments which are the case tropical countries like India. The dust gets accumulated on the front surface of the module and blocks the incident light from the sun. It reduces the power generation capacity of the module. The power output reduces as much as by 50% if the module is not cleaned for a month. The cleaning system has been designed cleans the module by controlling the Arduino programming. To remove the dust in the PV modules to improving the power efficiency.
Design and Optimization Technique for Best Suited Solar Panel Cleaning System
International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET), 2022
The project is about the design and development of a PV panel cleaning system. The main object of this design prototype is to clean the solar panel using an Automatic mechanism, such that efficiency or quality of solar panel is not compromised. If the cleaning is performed manually will be very costly and time consuming. This Solar Panel Cleaning Robot aims to maintain the efficiency of Solar power production by making sure the Solar panels are kept clean regularly.
International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education, 2020
Solar energy is one among the most important source of energy with high potential due to radiation of sun. The energy generated by solar having many applications in commercial and industrial areas. And nowadays there’s need of using solar power rather than other sources to scale back the adverse effects on environment. Solar panels typically contains photovoltaic (PV) cells covered by a protective glass coating, which generate electricity when subjected to radiations. Sand and mud particles accumulating on solar array , which ends up in reduction of the general power output of the solar plant i.e. efficiency decreases. Dust and dirt particles accumulating on PV panels decrease the solar power reaching the Photovoltaic cells, thereby reducing their overall power output. It’s observed that there’s about up to 40% of efficiency decreases by deposition of dust and dirt on solar PV cell panel. Hence, cleaning the PV panels may be a problem of great practical engineering interest in solar...
Design and development of solar panel cleaning system
Mantech Publications Pvt Ltd, 2019
The main method for harnessing solar power is with arrays made up of photovoltaic (PV) panels. Accumulation of dust and debris on even one panel in an array reduces their efficiency in energy generation considerably and emphasizes the need to keep the panel's Surface as clean as possible. In this Project a novel design is to be develop a AC current based automatic cleaning of solar panels. A tool is designed based on the array size, and water pumping/sprinkling mechanism is designed based on the amount/nature of dust accumulated. In terms of daily energy generation, the presented automatic-cleaning scheme provides about 30% more energy output when compared to the dust accumulated PV module.
Automated Solar Panel Tracking Cum Cleaning System
Accumulation of dust on the surface of the solar panels is a natural phenomenon. These accumulated dust particles act as an obstrucle and obstruct the rays from reaching the panel. These particles act as external resistance. The amount of accumulated dust on the surface of the PV module effects the overall energy. Environment is one of the main contributing factor which affects the functioning of the panel. Shading of the panel can decrease the output reducing the overall solar photovoltaic performance of the cell. Hence by cleaning the module periodically can improve the efficiency by increasing the output by almost 50%.