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Extending Life of Solar Panels by Doing Real-Time Diagnostics of Health Data

posted by chromas on Monday September 10 2018, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the solar-panel dept.

karthika qpt writes:

Extending Life of Solar Panels by doing Real-time diagnostics of Health Data:

Purdue researchers created an algorithm using the physics of panel degradation that can analyze solar farm data from anywhere, essentially as a portable EKG for solar farms. [...] Real-time diagnostics would ultimately inform better panel designs – the cost-saving "treatment" that could prolong lifespan and continue to cut electrical bills.

[...] The algorithm is in an experimental stage, but already downloadable for other researchers to use through a National Science Foundation-funded platform called Digital Environment for Enabling Data-driven Science (DEEDS) at https://datacenterhub.org/resources/14754.

[...] In the long term, the researchers hope the algorithm could show how much energy a solar farm produces in 30 years by looking at the relationship between weather forecast data and projection of electric circuit parameters. Integrating the algorithm with other physics-based models could eventually predict the lifetime of a solar farm.

doi: 10.1002/pip.3043

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday September 10 2018, @09:26PM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Monday September 10 2018, @09:26PM (#732921) Journal

    Deom TFA

    Integrating the algorithm with other physics-based models could eventually predict the lifetime of a solar farm.

    Miissing: "if we can convince manufacturers to change things based on our findings, and if our models match real-world experience in any current solar farm"

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 10 2018, @09:38PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday September 10 2018, @09:38PM (#732926)

    But, but ... they have great backronym for their study, so they have to be right !
    Just ask congress.