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Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells

The environmental and economical merits of converting solar energy into electricity via photovoltaic cells have caused an ever increasing interest among developed and developing countries to allocate more budget on photovoltaic systems in order to boost up their efficiency in recent years. Besides t...

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Main Authors:	Mekhilef, Saad, Saidur, Rahman, Kamalisarvestani, Masoud
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Published:	Elsevier 2012
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/4711/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.02.012
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spelling	my.um.eprints.47112019-11-27T08:43:59Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/4711/ Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells Mekhilef, Saad Saidur, Rahman Kamalisarvestani, Masoud TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The environmental and economical merits of converting solar energy into electricity via photovoltaic cells have caused an ever increasing interest among developed and developing countries to allocate more budget on photovoltaic systems in order to boost up their efficiency in recent years. Besides the material and design parameters, there are several omnipresent factors such as dust, humidity and air velocity that can influence the PV cell's performance. There have been a handful of studies conducted on the effect of various influential parameters on the efficiency and performance of photovoltaic cells; however none has taken all these three parameters into account simultaneously. In this study the impact of dust accumulation, humidity level and the air velocity will be elaborated separately and finally the impact of each on the other will be clarified. It is shown that each of these three factors affect the other two and it is concluded that in order to have a profound insight of solar cell design, the effect of these factors should be taken into consideration in parallel. Elsevier 2012 Article PeerReviewed Mekhilef, Saad and Saidur, Rahman and Kamalisarvestani, Masoud (2012) Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16 (5). pp. 2920-2925. ISSN 1364-0321 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.02.012 doi:10.1016/j.rser.2012.02.012
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topic	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Mekhilef, Saad Saidur, Rahman Kamalisarvestani, Masoud Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells
description	The environmental and economical merits of converting solar energy into electricity via photovoltaic cells have caused an ever increasing interest among developed and developing countries to allocate more budget on photovoltaic systems in order to boost up their efficiency in recent years. Besides the material and design parameters, there are several omnipresent factors such as dust, humidity and air velocity that can influence the PV cell's performance. There have been a handful of studies conducted on the effect of various influential parameters on the efficiency and performance of photovoltaic cells; however none has taken all these three parameters into account simultaneously. In this study the impact of dust accumulation, humidity level and the air velocity will be elaborated separately and finally the impact of each on the other will be clarified. It is shown that each of these three factors affect the other two and it is concluded that in order to have a profound insight of solar cell design, the effect of these factors should be taken into consideration in parallel.
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author	Mekhilef, Saad Saidur, Rahman Kamalisarvestani, Masoud
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title	Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells
title_short	Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells
title_full	Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells
title_fullStr	Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells
title_full_unstemmed	Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells
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url	http://eprints.um.edu.my/4711/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.02.012
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Effect of dust, humidity and air velocity on efficiency of photovoltaic cells

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