Determining the Effects of Environment and Atmospheric Parameters on PV Field Performance

Leonardo Micheli; Matthew Muller; Sarah Kurtz

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749919

Determining the Effects of Environment and Atmospheric Parameters on PV Field Performance

Leonardo Micheli, Matthew Muller, Sarah Kurtz

Materials Science

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

24 Scopus Citations

Abstract

The performance losses due to soiling occurring on any photovoltaic (PV) device are caused by a complex mechanism that involves numerous factors and their interactions. For this reason, the present work analyzes the outputs of reference PV cells installed in various locations, with the aim of contributing to the identification of the most important factors influencing the accumulation of dust on a PV surface. Parameters such as the air-quality indexes, the recurrence and the amount of rainfall and the climate zone are investigated and related to the soiling losses of the PV device.

Original language	American English
Pages	1724-1729
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749919 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749919
State	Published - 18 Nov 2016
Event	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016 - Portland, United States Duration: 5 Jun 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

Conference

Conference	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	5/06/16 → 10/06/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5J00-66512

Keywords

dust
performance analysis
photovoltaic systems
soiling

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

Cite this

@conference{728b698b3df74071a6965ee435fd4504,

title = "Determining the Effects of Environment and Atmospheric Parameters on PV Field Performance",

abstract = "The performance losses due to soiling occurring on any photovoltaic (PV) device are caused by a complex mechanism that involves numerous factors and their interactions. For this reason, the present work analyzes the outputs of reference PV cells installed in various locations, with the aim of contributing to the identification of the most important factors influencing the accumulation of dust on a PV surface. Parameters such as the air-quality indexes, the recurrence and the amount of rainfall and the climate zone are investigated and related to the soiling losses of the PV device.",

keywords = "dust, performance analysis, photovoltaic systems, soiling",

author = "Leonardo Micheli and Matthew Muller and Sarah Kurtz",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016 ; Conference date: 05-06-2016 Through 10-06-2016",

year = "2016",

month = nov,

day = "18",

doi = "10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749919",

language = "American English",

pages = "1724--1729",

}

TY - CONF

T1 - Determining the Effects of Environment and Atmospheric Parameters on PV Field Performance

AU - Micheli, Leonardo

AU - Muller, Matthew

AU - Kurtz, Sarah

PY - 2016/11/18

Y1 - 2016/11/18

N2 - The performance losses due to soiling occurring on any photovoltaic (PV) device are caused by a complex mechanism that involves numerous factors and their interactions. For this reason, the present work analyzes the outputs of reference PV cells installed in various locations, with the aim of contributing to the identification of the most important factors influencing the accumulation of dust on a PV surface. Parameters such as the air-quality indexes, the recurrence and the amount of rainfall and the climate zone are investigated and related to the soiling losses of the PV device.

AB - The performance losses due to soiling occurring on any photovoltaic (PV) device are caused by a complex mechanism that involves numerous factors and their interactions. For this reason, the present work analyzes the outputs of reference PV cells installed in various locations, with the aim of contributing to the identification of the most important factors influencing the accumulation of dust on a PV surface. Parameters such as the air-quality indexes, the recurrence and the amount of rainfall and the climate zone are investigated and related to the soiling losses of the PV device.

KW - dust

KW - performance analysis

KW - photovoltaic systems

KW - soiling

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85003634457&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749919

DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749919

M3 - Paper

AN - SCOPUS:85003634457

SP - 1724

EP - 1729

T2 - 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016

Y2 - 5 June 2016 through 10 June 2016

ER -

Determining the Effects of Environment and Atmospheric Parameters on PV Field Performance

Abstract

Conference

Bibliographical note

NREL Publication Number

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this