TY - JOUR
TI - Optimized cleaning and cooling for photovoltaic modules based on the output perfrmance
AU - Mohsin Layth
AU - Sakhrieh Ahmad
AU - Aboushi Ahmad
AU - Hamdan Amer
AU - Abdelhafez Eman
AU - Hamdan Mohammed
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2018
VL - 22
IS - 1
SP - 237
EP - 246
PT - Article
AB - This study aimed to design and implement a smart automatic cleaning and  cooling system for photovoltaic modules to be activated based on power drop  resulting from dust accumulation and high temperature conditions. This was  tested by installing two side by side identical photovoltaic modules. The  first module was equipped with the prototype cleaning system while the  second one was considered as standard. An optimized cleaning and cooling  procedure was adopted using data acquisition system. The operational  performance of both panels was recorded and analyzed. An increase in energy  yield of 8.7% was obtained as a result of minimizing the operational  disturbances of dust accumulation and high surface temperature of the  photovoltaic panel.