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Evaluation of the performance and degradation of crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic modules in the Saharan environment
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Author:
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Silvestre Bergés, Santiago; Tahri, Ali; Tahri, Fatima; Benlebna, Soumiya; Chouder, Aissa
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. MNT - Grup de Recerca en Micro i Nanotecnologies |
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© <2018>. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Abstract:
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The aim of this paper is to present three years of an evaluation of the performance and degradation rate of three different crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) modules in the Saharan environment. The
PV modules are: mc-Si (multi-crystalline), c_Si (mono-crystalline, back contacted) and HiT (heterojunction with intrinsic thin-layer); they are installed in Saida which is located at the proximity of Algeria’s Sahara. Two methods were used to calculate the degradation rate; the effective peak power of the PV modules and the temperature corrected performance ratio. It was found that the HIT technology performs worse than the other technologies with the highest degradation rate, ranging from -1.53%/year to -1.92%/year. The mc_Si PV and c_Si PV module technologies present a lower degradation rate than the
HIT technology in the range of -0.74%/year to -0.83%/year and -0.58%/year to -0.79%/year respectively. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies::Energia solar fotovoltaica -Photovoltaic power generation -PV modules -Performance -Degradation rate -Sahara -Energia solar fotovoltaica |
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
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Article - Submitted version Article |
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