Search results for: Vidyashree Rajasekar
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IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics > 2015 > 5 > 6 > 1727 - 1734
Spectral and angle of incidence (AOI) losses on naturally soiled crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules have been investigated in this study. The test modules designated as “moderately soiled (3 g/m2 )” and “heavily soiled (74.6 g/m2)” showed short-circuit current ( $I_{{\rm sc}}$ ) losses of about 10% and 41%, respectively. The spectral reflectance and quantum efficiency (QE) losses were also...
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Solar glass coatings for photovoltaic (PV) modules include antireflection and antisoiling coatings. There are increasing number of claims related to dust resistant, abrasion resistant (during cleaning) and self-cleaning solar glass coatings. Currently, there is no standardized way of verifying the validity of such claims. As a first step towards validating such claims, the industry needs to develop...
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Higher the angle of incidence (AOI), lower will be the photovoltaic (PV) module performance. The AOI investigation for cleaned modules of five different technologies with air/glass interface has already been reported by our research group. However, the modules that are installed in the field would invariably develop a soil layer with varying thickness depending on the site condition, rain fall and...
