Article: Automatic and portable cleaning photovoltaic solar panels mechanism Journal: International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion (IJPEC) 2023 Vol.14 No.1 pp.75 - 91 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. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Automatic and portable cleaning photovoltaic solar panels mechanism

Authors: Fulton Carlos Reategui-Ordoñez; Fernando Paredes Marchena; Juan Eduardo Reategui-Ordoñez; Hugo Guillermo Jimenez Pacheco

Addresses: Universidad Católica de Santa María, Urbanización San José s/n Yanahuara Arequipa, Peru ' Universidad Católica de Santa María, Urbanización San José s/n Yanahuara Arequipa, Peru ' Universidad Católica de Santa María, Urbanización San José s/n Yanahuara Arequipa, Peru ' Instituto de Investigación e Innovación en Energías Renovables y Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencias e Ingenierías Físicas y Formales, Perú; Universidad Católica de Santa María, Urbanización San José s/n Yanahuara Arequipa, Perú

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.

Keywords: panel solar; panel cleaning; photovoltaic; dust; mechanism.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEC.2023.133629

International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, 2023 Vol.14 No.1, pp.75 - 91

Received: 28 Nov 2022
Accepted: 08 Jun 2023
Published online: 25 Sep 2023 *

Title: Automatic and portable cleaning photovoltaic solar panels mechanism

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