Non-coherent detection of dust in photovoltaic systems in series configuration using Lipschitz exponent

Diego Seuret-Jiménez; Eduardo Trutié-Carrero

doi:10.56845/rebs.v2i2.27

Authors

Diego Seuret-Jiménez Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Centro de Investigación en Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas; Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Eduardo Trutié-Carrero Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Centro de Investigación en Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas; Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56845/rebs.v2i2.27

Keywords:

fault detection, photovoltaic system, Lipschitz exponent, dust detection

Abstract

Failures in photovoltaic systems are a problem of great importance because they cause a deterioration in the production of electrical energy, among which is the dust on the surface of the photovoltaic system. This paper proposes a method to detect dust on the surface of a photovoltaic system in series configuration. In addition, shows by visual inspection that the IV characteristic of a photovoltaic panel is equal to the IV characteristic of a photovoltaic system. To obtain the results, 120 signals were used, 60 for the design of the method and the rest for the validation of the method. The proposed method only yielded 2 false positives out of 30 signals where there was no fault present.

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