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Representing Heat Emissions in Solar Panels with Thermal Images

Akash Singh Chaudhary, D.K. Chaturvedi

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Energy generation from solar radiations is one of the preferable technique among other renewable methods due to its numerous of advantages. The smallest element presents in solar panel known as solar cell are used for converting solar radiations into electrical energy through photoelectric effect. Solar panels develop certain problems in them when exposed to open environment, these problems include defects and degradation in various components of solar panels which can identified by physical observation. Deposition of dust and dirt, shading of a tree or building, junction box heating, etc. cause some problems of heating the surface of solar panels which cannot be identified physically and become severe if neglected. The heat generated due to these problems can cause a fault in solar panels so to identify them thermal imaging is used. Thermal imaging camera based on thermal imaging is used to capture thermal images which show temperature variation of the heated component in solar panels. This paper shows that a thermal image obtained from thermal camera represent the heat emitted by dust, depositions, shading and other degradation in solar panels.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijacs.v3i2.630

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