Effect of micro cracks on photovoltaic output power: case study based on real time long term data measurements

Dhimish, Mahmoud, Holmes, Violeta, Dales, Mark and Mehrdadi, Bruce (2017) Effect of micro cracks on photovoltaic output power: case study based on real time long term data measurements. Micro & Nano Letters. ISSN 1750-0443

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Abstract

This study analyses the impact of micro cracks on photovoltaic (PV) module output power performance and energy production. Electroluminescence imaging technique was used to detect micro cracks affecting PV modules. The experiment was carried out on ten different PV modules installed at the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom. The examined PV modules which contain micro cracks shows large loss in the output power comparing with the theoretical output power predictions, where the maximum power loss is equal to 80.73%. LabVIEW software was used to simulate the theoretical output power of the examined PV modules under real time long term data measurements.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering T Technology > TR Photography
Schools:	School of Computing and Engineering
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Depositing User:	Mahmoud Dhimish
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2017 08:44
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2018 09:30
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/33463

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