@inproceedings{a351120e59094afb85c0564df209463c,
title = "Design and Operation of a Waterless PV Soiling Monitoring Station",
abstract = " ASU-PRL has developed an autonomous, waterless, and wireless soiling monitoring station for photovoltaic (PV) plants. This soiling monitoring station is a 4 th generation design, featuring: Two split-cell coupons as sensors coplanar to the PV arrays (two soiled half-cells and two covered clean half-cells), utilizing remote web-monitoring, and capable of providing data for up to 13 different useful ratios. This design employs built-in heat sinks which eliminates the need for temperature correction of the monitored short-circuit current. This paper presents the design and operation of a waterless PV soiling monitoring station and how it differs from currently available soiling monitoring stations on the market as well as a data set obtained from different PV plants located in diverse climates to quantify the operation and methodology. ",
keywords = "Isc, PV, Pmax, monitoring, rain coefficient, sensor ratios, soiling loss factor",
author = "Telia Curtis and Sai Tatapudi and {Tamizh Mani}, {Govinda Samy}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 ; Conference date: 10-06-2018 Through 15-06-2018",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547820",
language = "English (US)",
series = "2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3407--3412",
booktitle = "2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC",
}