Condition Monitoring, Field Inspection and Fault Diagnostic Methods for Photovoltaic Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Fault Diagnosis & Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 29101
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Interests: PV performance modeling; PV diagnostics; electroluminescence imaging; PV reliability
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Interests: modelling; characterisation; diagnostics; power conversion and grid and energy storage integration for photovoltaic systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the deployment of millions of solar panels along with the expectation for photovoltaic (PV) systems to operate for 25+ years with minimal maintenance, there is a growing need for more accurate and cost-effective condition monitoring, field inspection, and diagnostic sensors and methods for PV systems. These are necessary to drive down operation and maintenance costs, prolong the useful life of PV systems, and increase investor confidence in solar PV as a safe investment.
Accurate and intelligent condition monitoring sensors and systems are necessary to detect degradation and failures early on by monitoring the electrical performance parameters of the PV system at the panel, string, and array or inverter levels. Such monitoring systems need to be partially or fully automated and consider the size of the PV installation.
The localization and identification of the type of PV failure and its severity is typically time consuming, and requires a high level of expertise. Therefore, more accurate and efficient field inspection methods and tools are necessary to drive down labor costs and inspection times. Infrared thermography and electroluminescence imaging have shown great potential—especially as they can be performed by aerial drones—for the fast inspection of a large number of solar panels. Nonetheless, more research and novel approaches are necessary to improve and automate the inspection and diagnostic process of PV systems.
Dr. Spataru Sergiu
Prof. Dr. Dezso Sera
Dr. Gisele Alves dos Reis Benatto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- condition monitoring
- fault detection
- fault identification
- photovoltaic systems
- performance monitoring
- diagnostics
- field inspection
- electroluminescence imaging
- infrared thermography
- inverter measurements
- I–V characteristic
- UAV inspection
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