EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DUST ACCUMULATION EFFECT ON PHOTOVOLTAIQUE SOLAR MODULE PERFORMANCE IN ZIGUINCHOR, SENEGAL
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2019-05-01
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university of eloued -جامعة الوادي
Abstract
The present work focuses on a study of dust accumulation effect on a photovoltaic solar
module performance in the environment of Ziguinchor, Senegal. Two polycrystalline
photovoltaic modules 0.75 W were exposed to the outdoor environment on rooftop of the
Chemistry and Materials Physics Laboratory (LCPM) at Assane Seck University, Ziguinchor,
Senegal (12 ° 34 N, 16 ° 16 E ). The two PV panels were exposed for 70 days to the outdoor
environment from March 20, 2018 until May 30, 2018, where, the dusty PV panel was left
without cleaning for natural dust accumulation, and the reference PV panel was cleaned daily.
The results showed that after 70 days of outdoor exposure without rain, the dust surface
density ranged from 0 (g/m2
) at the beginning to 13.84 (g/m2
) at the end of the experiment;
which resulted in a 92.3 (%) reduction in the reference module efficiency
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Photovoltaic, Dust accumulation, Efficiency reduction
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A. Sidibba1* , D. Ndiaye1 , D. Kobor2 , E. Menny3,EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DUST ACCUMULATION EFFECT ON PHOTOVOLTAIQUE SOLAR MODULE PERFORMANCE IN ZIGUINCHOR, SENEGAL. Journal of Fundamental and sciences. vol.11, no 2. May 2019. Faculty of exact sciences. university of el oued. [visited in 01/May/2019]. available from [[email protected]]