Aerial Infrared Thermography of a Utility-Scale PV Plant after a Meteorological Tsunami in Brazil

Aline Kirsten Vidal De Oliveira; Mohammadreza Aghaei; Uzoma Edward Madukanya; Lucas Nascimento; Ricardo Ruther

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548019

Aerial Infrared Thermography of a Utility-Scale PV Plant after a Meteorological Tsunami in Brazil

Aline Kirsten Vidal De Oliveira, Mohammadreza Aghaei, Uzoma Edward Madukanya, Lucas Nascimento, Ricardo Ruther

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Aerial Infrared Thermography (aIRT) is a nondestructive and cost-effective method for detecting faults in largescale PV plants. In this paper, a 1 MW multi-crystalline PV plantblock that was hit by a meteorological tsunami in Brazil in 2016, is inspected systematically using the aIRT method. The main objective was to validate this inspection technique for commercial application. Various failures like hotspots, bypassed substrings, short-circuited and disconnected PV strings were detected at the PV plant using aIRT inspection in less than one hour. The results have proven that this semi-autonomous method is very fast, reliable and effective for large scale PV plants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	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
Pages	684-689
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538685297
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548019
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - Waikoloa Village, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

Conference

Conference	7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikoloa Village
Period	10/06/18 → 15/06/18

Funding

RR wishes to acknowledge with thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a Research Linkage project grant that allowed the acquisition of the IR camera used in this work.

Keywords

Aerial Infrared thermography (aIRT)
Fault Inspection.
Photovoltaic (PV) Plant
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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De Oliveira, A. K. V., Aghaei, M., Madukanya, U. E., Nascimento, L., & Ruther, R. (2018). Aerial Infrared Thermography of a Utility-Scale PV Plant after a Meteorological Tsunami in Brazil. In 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC (pp. 684-689). Article 8548019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548019

De Oliveira, Aline Kirsten Vidal ; Aghaei, Mohammadreza ; Madukanya, Uzoma Edward et al. / Aerial Infrared Thermography of a Utility-Scale PV Plant after a Meteorological Tsunami in Brazil. 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018. pp. 684-689

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De Oliveira, AKV, Aghaei, M, Madukanya, UE, Nascimento, L & Ruther, R 2018, Aerial Infrared Thermography of a Utility-Scale PV Plant after a Meteorological Tsunami in Brazil. in 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC., 8548019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 684-689, 7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018, Waikoloa Village, United States, 10/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548019

Aerial Infrared Thermography of a Utility-Scale PV Plant after a Meteorological Tsunami in Brazil. / De Oliveira, Aline Kirsten Vidal; Aghaei, Mohammadreza; Madukanya, Uzoma Edward et al.
2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018. p. 684-689 8548019.

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