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T1 Effect of the self-cleaning coating surface in the temperature and soiling losses of photovoltaic modules.
A1 Cañete-Torralvo, Cristina
A1 Moreno-Sáez, Rafael Jesús
A1 Piliougine Rocha, Michel
A1 Sidrach-de-Cardona-Ortin, Mariano
A1 Carretero-Rubio, Jesús Eduardo
A1 Hirose, Jun-ichi
A1 Ogawa, Shuichiro
K1 Energía fotovoltaica
AB Soiling on photovoltaic modules has a straight effect on the transmittance and hence significant energy losses. The economic cost due to these losses can be important in the case of large-scale plants, especially for those located in dry areas. Asahi Kasei Corporation has designed and developed a new coating for photovoltaic modules with self-cleaning and anti-reflectiveness properties. The deposition of such coating on the surface of the modules has a positive effect on their global performance. The objective of this paper is to evaluate this coating by comparing the energy produced by several modules of the same model, some of them with anti-soiling coating and other without it. Obtained results quantify the relationship between soiling and energy losses. During long periods without rain, these losses grow up gradually until first rainfalls. Modules with the coating have experimented mean daily energy losses around 2.7%, whereas in the case of the modules without the coating this value reaches 3.6%.
PB WIP Munich
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34677
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34677
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026