Iranian Engineers Develop Solar Panel Cleaning Robots
“The robot is the result of technological collaboration between an investment firm and our company which led to the production of a sustainable product to be used in the solar power plants,” said Mohammad Salehi Nasab, the managing-director of the knowledge-based company active in the field of renewable energies.
Noting that using robots requires less manpower and reduces the time of washing solar panels, he described the 50 percent reduction in the cost of cleaning the solar panels as another advantage of this type of robots.
Salehi Nasab explained that existence of dust on solar panels in farms can reduce the daily generation of 10 megawatts of renewable electricity taken from the sun to eight megawatts per day, and added, “Until now, France-made robots had been presented to the market which had defects and we produced a panel cleaning robot with more capabilities by settling them.”
He also said that while using the France-made cleaning robots, the solar panels should be horizontal and taken out of generation mode, adding, “But our robots are placed on the panels without removing the solar panels from the production circuit and at the same angle that the panel is installed and carry out their mission.”
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.
Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and solar tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight to a hot spot, often to drive a steam turbine.
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