Failures of Photovoltaic modules and their Detection: A Review

MW Akram, G Li, Y Jin, X Chen - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) has emerged as a promising and phenomenal renewable energy
technology in the recent past and the PV market has developed at an exponential rate …

Deep residual network based fault detection and diagnosis of photovoltaic arrays using current-voltage curves and ambient conditions

Z Chen, Y Chen, L Wu, S Cheng, P Lin - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Automatic fault detection and diagnosis techniques for photovoltaic arrays are crucial to
promote the efficiency, reliability and safety of photovoltaic systems. In recent decades …

CNN based automatic detection of photovoltaic cell defects in electroluminescence images

MW Akram, G Li, Y Jin, X Chen, C Zhu, X Zhao… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Automatic defect detection is gaining huge importance in photovoltaic (PV) field due to
limited application of manual/visual inspection and rising production quantities of PV …

Progress in module level quantitative electroluminescence imaging of crystalline silicon PV module: A review

VE Puranik, R Kumar, R Gupta - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Electroluminescence (EL) imaging is a prominent tool for obtaining qualitative and
quantitative information of defects and degradations in a crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV module …

Automatic detection of photovoltaic module defects in infrared images with isolated and develop-model transfer deep learning

MW Akram, G Li, Y Jin, X Chen, C Zhu, A Ahmad - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
With the rising use of photovoltaic and ongoing installation of large-scale photovoltaic
systems worldwide, the automation of photovoltaic monitoring methods becomes important …

Power loss and hotspot analysis for photovoltaic modules affected by potential induced degradation

M Dhimish, AM Tyrrell - npj Materials Degradation, 2022 - nature.com
Potential-induced degradation (PID) of photovoltaic (PV) modules is one of the most severe
types of degradation in modern modules, where power losses depend on the strength of the …

Degradation analysis of a photovoltaic generator after operating for 15 years in southern Brazil

JEF da Fonseca, FS de Oliveira, CWM Prieb… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic modules long-term reliability is a key requirement to keep this technology a
commercially interesting option for energy production. The investment return on PV …

Rapid testing on the effect of cracks on solar cells output power performance and thermal operation

M Dhimish, Y Hu - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This work investigates the impact of cracks and fractural defects in solar cells and their
cause for output power losses and the development of hotspots. First, an …

Identifying defective solar cells in electroluminescence images using deep feature representations

AS Al‐Waisy, DA Ibrahim, DA Zebari… - PeerJ Computer …, 2022 - peerj.com
Electroluminescence (EL) imaging is a technique for acquiring images of photovoltaic (PV)
modules and examining them for surface defects. Analysis of EL images has been manually …

[HTML][HTML] A benchmark dataset for defect detection and classification in electroluminescence images of PV modules using semantic segmentation

L Pratt, J Mattheus, R Klein - Systems and Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Electroluminescence (EL) images enable defect detection in solar photovoltaic (PV)
modules that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye, much the same way an x-ray enables …