{"id":8116,"date":"2019-12-13T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T04:23:00","slug":"innovation-researchers-develop-technique-to-remove-98-per-cent-of-solar-panels-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=8116","title":{"rendered":"INNOVATION: Researchers develop technique to remove 98 per cent of solar panels dust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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INNOVATION: Researchers develop technique to remove 98 per cent of solar panels dust – ET EnergyWorld<\/h2>\n
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\"INNOVATION:New Delhi: Taking a cue from the self-cleaning properties of the lotus leaf, researchers at Israel based\u00a0Ben-Gurion University<\/a>\u00a0(BGU) of the Negev have shed new light on microscopic forces and mechanisms that can be optimized to remove dust from solar power panels to maintain efficiency and light absorption.<\/p>\n

This new technique removes 98 per cent of dust particles. In a new study published in the journal ACS Langmuir the researchers confirmed that modifying the surface properties of\u00a0solar panels<\/a>\u00a0may greatly reduce the amount of dust remaining on the surface, and significantly increase the potential of\u00a0solar energy<\/a>\u00a0harvesting applications in the desert.<\/p>\n

“Dust adhesion on solar panels is a major challenge to energy harvesting through\u00a0photovoltaic cells<\/a>. New solutions are necessary to maintain maximum collection efficiency in high dust density areas such as the Negev desert in Israel,” the university said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Under natural conditions, the lotus leaf remains dust and pathogen free due to its nanotextured surface and a thin wax, hydrophobic coating that repels water. \u201cIn the desert, dust accumulates on the surface of solar cells and it is labor-intensive to clean them constantly, so we are trying to mimic this behaviour on a solar cell,” said Tabea Heckenthaler, a master’s student at the BGU Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research.<\/p>\n

The researchers explored the effect of modifying a\u00a0silicon substrate<\/a>\u00a0(Si), a semiconductor used in photovoltaic cells, to mimic the self-cleaning properties of the lotus leaf, as water rolls down the leaves and removes contamination. It is known that super-hydrophobicity reduces the friction between water droplets and the surface, thus allowing water drops to slide clean particles from surfaces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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INNOVATION: Researchers develop technique to remove 98 per cent of solar panels dust – ET EnergyWorld New Delhi: Taking a cue from the self-cleaning properties of the lotus leaf, researchers at Israel based\u00a0Ben-Gurion University\u00a0(BGU) of the Negev have shed new light on microscopic forces and mechanisms that can be optimized to remove dust from solar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}