TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication, Computing, Electronics and Control
Robotic dry cleaner for photovoltaic solar panels: an implemented design that evaluated in iraq's weather

TELKOMNIKA Telecommunication, Computing, Electronics and Control
Robotic dry cleaner for photovoltaic solar panels: an implemented design that evaluated in iraq's weather

Dust
Embedded system
IoT
Photovoltaic system
Portable PV cleaner
PV power mitigation

Arabian desert areas are suffered from high mitigation in the produced
photovoltaic (PV) power due to high dusty weather. This article presents a
robotic cleaner that will significantly reduce the impact of dust on the installed
PV systems in these areas. The proposed robotic cleaner is simple, low cost,
standalone, self-powered, portable, and connected to the cloud. ESP32 used as
a controller that manages the cleaning process and monitors its PV power
production, the battery's state of charge, time of the day, and weather
conditions. Thanks to the ESP32 features and its ability to connect to the cloud,
as an internet of things (IoT), via the ThingSpeak website. All the electrical,
mechanical, and electronic design aspects are presented and implemented in
this article. The results show the effectiveness and performance enhancement
due to periodic cleaning using the proposed robotic cleaner. The results also
show that the total percentage of the monthly normalized accumulated losses
for the two scheduled cleaning photovoltaic strings with a performance
improvement of 15.54% for the weekly cleaned string (WCS) 83.04% for the
never cleaned string (NCS) through the tested month.

Mahmood H. Salman, Ahmed J. Abid, Adel A. Obed

http://journal.uad.ac.id/index.php/TELKOMNIKA

Jul 5, 2021

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