Deterioration diagnosis of solar module using thermal and visible image processing
- Authors
- Jeong H.; Kwon G.-R.; Lee S.-W.
- Issue Date
- Jun-2020
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Keywords
- Deterioration; Hot spot; Image processing; Photovoltaic module; Thermal image
- Citation
- Energies, v.13, no.11
- Journal Title
- Energies
- Volume
- 13
- Number
- 11
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/67535
- DOI
- 10.3390/en13112856
- ISSN
- 1996-1073
- Abstract
- Several factors cause the output degradation of the photovoltaic (PV) module. The main affecting elements are the higher PV module temperature, the shaded cell, the shortened or conducting bypass diodes, and the soiled and degraded PV array. In this paper, we introduce an image processing technique that automatically identifies the module generating the hot spots in the solar module. In order to extract feature points, we used the maximally stable extremal regions (MSER) method, which derives the area of interest by using the inrange function, using the blue color of the PV module. We propose an effective matching method for feature points and a homography translation technique. The temperature data derivation method and the normal/ abnormal decision method are described in order to enhance the performance. The effectiveness of the proposed system was evaluated through experiments. Finally, a thermal image analysis of approximately 240 modules was confirmed to be 97% consistent with the visual evaluation in the experimental results. © 2020 by the authors.
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