Maintaining a solar power module
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsJames Clyde Hassell, Jr., Luiz Gustavo Do Val
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Abstract
A method for cleaning a solar power system includes operating a solar power system that comprises a plurality of solar power cells mounted on a spherical frame; rotating the spherical frame to move the plurality of solar power cells into a volume of a hemispherical reservoir that is mounted to the spherical frame; rotating the spherical frame to move the plurality of solar power cells into a solar cell cleaning solution fluid enclosed within the volume of the hemispherical reservoir defined between an interior surface of the reservoir and the spherical frame; and removing, with the solar cell cleaning solution, a plurality of particulates attached to the plurality of solar power cells.
Claims20
A method for cleaning a solar power system, comprising:
- operating a solar power system that comprises a plurality of solar power cells mounted on a spherical frame, where the plurality of solar power cells are mounted on an upper hemispherical portion of the spherical frame;
- rotating the spherical frame to move the plurality of solar power cells into a volume of a hemispherical reservoir that is mounted to the spherical frame, the hemispherical reservoir mounted to the spherical frame to enclose a lower hemispherical portion of the spherical frame;
- rotating the spherical frame to move the plurality of solar power cells mounted on the upper hemispherical portion of the spherical frame into a solar cell cleaning solution fluid enclosed within the volume of the hemispherical reservoir defined between an interior surface of the reservoir and the spherical frame;
- rotating the spherical frame to move another plurality of solar power cells mounted to the lower hemispherical portion of the spherical frame out of the solar cell cleaning solution;
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- removing, with the solar cell cleaning solution, a plurality of particulates attached to the plurality of solar power cells.
A method for cleaning a solar power system, comprising:
- operating a solar power system that comprises a plurality of solar power cells mounted on a spherical frame;
- rotating the spherical frame to move the plurality of solar power cells into a volume of a hemispherical reservoir that is mounted to the spherical frame;
- rotating the spherical frame with at least one motor mounted to the spherical frame to move the plurality of solar power cells into a solar cell cleaning solution fluid enclosed within the volume of the hemispherical reservoir defined between an interior surface of the reservoir and the spherical frame;
- removing, with the solar cell cleaning solution, a plurality of particulates attached to the plurality of solar power cells;
- flowing solar cell cleaning solution from a source of the solar cell cleaning solution to the volume of the reservoir;
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- flowing solar cell cleaning solution and at least a portion of the particulates from the reservoir to a solar cell cleaning solution waste tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.