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Why environmental dust influences solar energy harvesting
摘要： In order to minimize dust effects on optical surfaces related to the solar energy harvesting, adhesion between the active surface of energy harvesting device and the dust particles needs to be lowered. Consequently, the pinning force for the dust particles reduces, and the dust particles can be removed via creating the self‐cleaning effect. The wetting state of the active surface becomes critical towards reducing the pinning force. In this case, hydrophobic surfaces remain favorable reducing the dust adhesion on the surfaces. In the present perspective, characteristics of the environmental dust particles and their effects in humid air ambient are presented. The methods for dust removal from the surfaces and the optical transmittance reduction by the dust particles are discussed. The challenges and future perspectives of surface texturing towards achieving hydrophobicity and optical transmittance are also introduced.
关键词： environmental dust,solar energy harvesting,optical transmittance
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Novel bio-inspired memetic salp swarm algorithm and application to MPPT for PV systems considering partial shading condition
摘要： This paper proposes a novel bio-inspired optimization method named memetic salp swarm algorithm (MSSA). It is developed by extending the original salp swarm algorithm (SSA) with multiple independent salp chains, thus it can implement a wider exploration and a deeper exploitation under the memetic computing framework. In order to enhance the convergence stability, a virtual population based regroup operation is used for the global coordination between different salp chains. Due to partial shading condition (PSC) and fast time-varying weather conditions, photovoltaic (PV) systems may not be able to generate the global maximum power. Hence, MSSA is applied for an effective and efficient maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of PV systems under PSC. To evaluate the MPPT performance of the proposed algorithm, four case studies are undertaken using Matlab/Simulink, e.g., start-up test, step change of solar irradiation, ramp change of solar irradiation and temperature, and field atmospheric data of Hong Kong. The obtained PV system responses are compared to that of eight existing MPPT algorithms, such as incremental conductance (INC), genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), artificial bees colony (ABC), cuckoo search algorithm (CSA), grey wolf optimizer (GWO), SSA, and teaching-learning-based optimization (TLBO), respectively. Simulation results demonstrate that the output energy generated by MSSA in Spring in HongKong is 118.57%, 100.73%, 100.96%, 100.87%, 101.35%, 100.36%, 100.81%, and 100.22% to that of INC, GA, PSO, ABC, CSA, GWO, SSA, and TLBO, respectively. Lastly, a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experiment using dSpace platform is undertaken to further validate the implementation feasibility of MSSA.
关键词： Solar energy harvesting,virtual population,MPPT,memetic salp swarm algorithm,partial shading condition
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Perfect metamaterial absorber with high fractional bandwidth for solar energy harvesting
摘要： A new perfect metamaterial absorber (PMA) with high fractional bandwidth (FBW) is examined and verified for solar energy harvesting. Solar cells based on perfect metamaterial give a chance to increase the efficiency of the system by intensifying the solar electromagnetic wave that incident on the device. The designed structure is mostly offered in the visible frequency range so as to exploit the solar’s energy efficiently. Parametric investigations with regard to the measurements of the design structure are fulfilled to characterize the absorber. The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method-based CST simulator was used to keep the pattern parameters and absorbance analysis. The metamaterial shows almost 99.96% and 99.60% perfect absorption at 523.84 THz and 674.12 THz resonance frequencies. Moreover, absorption’s FBW is studied, and 39.22% FBW is found. The results confirm that the designed PMA can attain very high absorption peak at two modes such as transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) mode. Other than the numerical outcomes demonstrated that the suggested configuration was also polarization angle insensitive. In addition, the change of absorbance of the structure has provided a new kind of sensor applications in these frequency ranges. Therefore, the suggested metamaterial absorber offers perfect absorption for visible frequency ranges and can be used for renewable solar energy harvesting applications.
关键词： solar energy harvesting,polarization angle insensitive,perfect metamaterial absorber,visible frequency range,high fractional bandwidth
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Recent progresses in the design of BiVO4-based photocatalysts for efficient solar water splitting
摘要： Photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis are both considered as promising routes to solve energy and environmental crises. Particularly, photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has been extensively studied in the search for sustainable ways of converting solar energy into chemical energy to produce energy-dense fuel with minimal carbon footprint. Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has attracted a lot attention in recent years due to its visible-light activity, favorable conduction and valence band edge positions, and low-cost facile synthesis route. However, BiVO4 still suffers from low carrier separation efficiency and slow oxygen evolution kinetics on its surface. To overcome these weaknesses, various modification strategies, including nanostructural morphology control, element doping, heterostructures (particularly Z-scheme), plasmonic enhancement and surface passivation, have been proposed and implemented to improve its PEC activity. This short review summarizes the most recent advances on the designs of BiVO4-based photocatalysts and photoanodes. Some of the best-performing BiVO4–based photo-electrode structures to date are demonstrated, and the critical parameters that contribute to these outstanding performances are discussed.
关键词： Solar energy harvesting,BiVO4,Photocatalyst,Photoelectrochemical water splitting
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Low Complexity Dimensioning of Sustainable Solar-enabled Systems: A Case of Base Station
摘要： Solar-enabled systems are becoming popular for provisioning pollution-free and cost-effective energy solution. Dimensioning of a solar-enabled system requires estimation of appropriate size of photovoltaic (PV) panel as well as storage capacity while satisfying a given energy outage constraint. Dimensioning has strong impact on the user’s quality of experience and network operator’s interest in terms of energy outage and revenue. In this paper, dimensioning problem of solar-enabled communication nodes is analyzed in order to reduce the computation overhead, where stand-alone solar-enabled base station (SS-BS) is considered as a case study. For this purpose, hourly solar data of last ten years has been taken into consideration for analysis. First, the power consumption model of BS is revised to save energy and increase revenue. Using the hourly solar data and power consumption profile, the lower bounds on panel size and storage capacity are obtained using Gaussian mixture model, which provides a reduced search space for cost-optimal system dimensioning. Then, the cost function and energy outage probability are modeled as functions of panel size and number of battery units using curve fitting technique. The cost function is proven to be quasiconvex, whereas energy outage probability is proven to be convex function of panel size and number of battery units. These properties transform the cost-optimal dimensioning problem into a convex optimization framework, which ensures a global optimal solution. Finally, a Computationally-efficient Energy outage aware Cost-optimal Dimensioning Algorithm (CECoDA) is proposed to estimate the system dimension without requiring exhaustive search. The proposed framework is tested and validated on solar data of several cities; for illustration purpose, four cities, New Delhi, Itanagar, Las Vegas, and Kansas, located at diverse geographical regions, are considered. It is demonstrated that, the presented optimization framework determines the system dimension accurately, while reducing the computational overhead up to 94% and the associated energy requirement for computation with respect to the exhaustive search method used in the existing approaches. The proposed framework CECoDA takes advantage of the location-dependent unique solar profile, thereby achieving cost-efficient solar-enabled system design in significantly less time.
关键词： computation efficiency,cost-optimal system dimensioning,Sustainable solar-enabled system,solar energy harvesting,energy outage,Gaussian mixture model,convex optimization,curve fitting
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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A Paper-Based Biological Solar Cell
摘要： A merged system incorporating paperfluidics and papertronics has recently emerged as a simple, single-use, low-cost paradigm for disposable point-of-care (POC) diagnostic applications. Stand-alone and self-sustained paper-based systems are essential to providing effective and lifesaving treatments in resource-constrained environments. Therefore, a realistic and accessible power source is required for actual paper-based POC systems as their diagnostic performance and portability rely significantly on power availability. Among many paper-based batteries and energy storage devices, paper- based microbial fuel cells have attracted much attention because bacteria can harvest electricity from any type of organic matter that is readily available in those challenging regions. However, the promise of this technology has not been translated into practical power applications because of its short power duration, which is not enough to fully operate those systems for a relatively long period. In this work, we for the first time demonstrate a simple and long-lasting paper-based biological solar cell that uses photosynthetic bacteria as biocatalysts. The bacterial photosynthesis and respiration continuously and self-sustainably generate power by converting light energy into electricity. With a highly porous and conductive anode and an innovative solid-state cathode, the biological solar cell built upon the paper substrates generated the maximum current and power density of 65 μA/cm2 and 10.7 μW/cm2, respectively, which are considerably greater than those of conventional micro-sized biological solar cells. Furthermore, photosynthetic bacteria in a 3-D volumetric chamber made of a stack of papers provided stable and long-lasting electricity for more than 5 h, while electrical current from the heterotrophic culture on 2-D paper dramatically decreased within several minutes.
关键词： photosynthetic bacteria,microbial fuel cells,paper-based point-of-care diagnostic devices,solar energy harvesting,paper-based biological solar cells
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04