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The Performance Loss by the Soiling of Photovoltaic Modules

태양전지 모듈의 소일링에 의한 성능 저하

  • 오원욱 (전자부품연구원 시스템로버스트연구센터) ;
  • 천성일 (전자부품연구원 시스템로버스트연구센터)
  • Received : 2015.03.26
  • Accepted : 2015.04.16
  • Published : 2015.04.30
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Abstract

Soiling is the accumulation of dirt on photovoltaic (PV) modules and can reduce the performance of the PV power plant depending on the site location. Nevertheless, the reason which can not be the great interest to researchers of PV reliability is the phenomenon of performance loss caused by external environmental factors, not the internal degradation of the PV module. In this paper, we provide the phenomenon, history, research overview and mitigation method in order to help understanding of the soiling.

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