Progress in floating photovoltaic systems /
Progress in Floating Photovoltaic Systems reflects the huge growth underway in floating photovoltaic (PV) systems, covering the latest technologies, new ideas, and practical solutions-currently available in the sector-to support further development and implementation. This book begins by introducing...
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2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Progress in Floating Photovoltaic Systems
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- About the authors
- 1 Third pillar of photovoltaics: floating photovoltaics
- Evolution of electric energy market up to 2023 and projections for 2030
- Hydroelectric sector
- Wind sector
- Concentrated solar power sector
- Biofuel and geothermal energy
- Renewable energy sources and photovoltaic sector
- Main challenge for renewable energy sources: problem of intermittency
- Forecast for floating photovoltaics
- Photovoltaic utility-scale and rooftop systems: is floating photovoltaics the third pillar?
- New York
- Rome
- Beijing
- Advantages and limitations of floating photovoltaics
- Advantages of floating photovoltaics
- No land occupancy
- Limiting greenhouse and albedo effects
- Hybrid systems and coupling to wind and hydroelectric power plants
- Reduction of specific energy costs
- Installation and decommissioning
- Water saving
- Cooling and tracking
- Biofouling control
- Limitations of floating photovoltaics
- Photovoltaic module lifecycle
- Disasters due to wind gusts or waves
- Birds and aquatic soiling
- Conclusion
- References
- 2 Floating structures material and design
- Class 1: HDPE pipes plus metal elements
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Class 2: Full plastic rafts supporting a single photovoltaic module
- Class 3: Photovoltaics supported by pontoons
- Class 4: Submerged and membrane floating photovoltaics
- Submerged photovoltaic modules
- Semisubmerged systems
- Flexible floating photovoltaic solutions
- Membranes supporting photovoltaic modules
- Class 5: Bifacial modules and photovoltaic sails for shallow water and nearshore plants
- Bifacial modules
- Photovoltaic sail on poles/minipiles wind direction oriented
- Fixed sails with vertical bifacial photovoltaic modules.
- Appendix 1: Accidents due to wind gusts in FPV plants
- References
- 3 Tracking systems for floating photovoltaics
- Introduction
- Advancements in FPV tracking systems: challenges, solutions, and future directions
- Vertical axis tracking
- Vertical axis tracking inside a confinement structure
- Vertical axis tracking with a partial confining structure
- Vertical axis tracking without a confining structure
- Horizontal axis trackers
- Tracking floating photovoltaic energy performance analysis
- Sites and photovoltaic systems data
- Thermal losses
- Horizontal axis tracker North-South
- Vertical axis tracking
- Economical comparison of tracking floating photovoltaic
- Methodology
- CAPEX
- Revenues
- OPEX
- Levelized cost of energy
- Sensitivity of levelized cost of energy
- References
- 4 Mooring systems for floating photovoltaics
- Premise
- Mooring systems
- Rigid mooring systems
- Taut mooring systems
- Catenary mooring systems
- Compliant mooring systems
- Examples of existing mooring systems
- Design parameters for reliable mooring applications
- Taut elastic mooring systems
- Viscoelastic properties
- Composite elastomers
- Taut elastic mooring systems
- Reliable mooring systems for floating photovoltaic plants
- Conclusion
- References
- 5 Hydroelectric coupling with floating photovoltaics
- Hydroelectric power plants versus solar photovoltaics
- Why this slowdown?
- Maturity of technology
- Environmental impact
- Comparison with wind and photovoltaic technologies
- Decreasing equivalent hours for hydroelectric power plants
- Advantages of coupling floating photovoltaic and hydroelectric power plant systems
- Grid connection
- Reduction of power fluctuation
- Installation and management
- Water saving
- Hybrid FPV-HPP and power and energy density
- Worldwide analysis.
- Future trends, sustainable potential, and hidden opportunities for hydropower sector in European Union
- Conclusions
- References
- 6 Wind load and snow impact on floating photovoltaics
- Introduction
- Qualitative analysis of computational fluid dynamics: a naive physical approach
- Drag coefficient
- Full plant
- Numerical simulation of computational fluid dynamics
- CFD simulations: results for South-oriented tilted PV platform with 50 m/s wind coming from the rear
- Velocity analysis
- CFD Simulations: results for gable structure with wind at 0 and 45 degrees
- Wind at zero degrees
- Wind at 45 degrees
- Cut plot-vorticity and relative pressure
- Rafts: global forces acting
- Snow management
- Adding ohmic resistance to photovoltaic modules
- Direct current on photovoltaic diodes
- Using hot air for heating
- Cold water as thermal source
- Ice melting
- Snow melting
- Conclusions
- References
- 7 Offshore solutions for floating photovoltaics
- Introduction
- Wave impact and wave load
- Proposed solutions
- Small size pontons solutions
- Large pontoons following wave motions
- Large pontoons raised above sea level
- Photovoltaics Sails: vertical photovoltaic modules on buoy (Tina et al., 2024)
- Photovoltaics sails: vertical photovoltaic modules on rafts
- Conclusions
- References
- 8 Measurements on floating photovoltaic plants
- Introduction
- Albedo
- Photovoltaic module temperature
- Cooling
- Testbed description
- Description of photovoltaic systems
- Performance indexes
- Energy
- Energy yield of photovoltaic array
- Reference yield
- Performance ratio
- Results of tests conducted on floating photovoltaic systems
- Ground versus floating photovoltaic systems
- Portrait versus landscape
- Tracker versus gable
- References
- 9 Impact of floating photovoltaics on the inland aquatic ecosystem.
- Introduction
- Sandpit lakes
- Food web: eat and be eaten
- Phytoplankton and zooplankton
- Aquatic vegetation
- Macrofauna
- Fish
- Birds and bats
- Observations-monitoring
- Impact on oxygen and photosynthesis
- Light availability
- Oxygen concentration
- Chlorophyll-a
- Impact on stratification
- Impact on evaporation
- Other observations
- Modeling
- 0D models
- 1D models
- 2D models
- 3D models
- Conclusions
- Light availability
- Oxygen concentration
- Chlorophyll-a
- Effects on thermal stratification
- Recommendations
- Knowledge gaps
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 10 Economic and financial analysis of floating photovoltaics
- Introduction
- Components of floating photovoltaic plants
- Investment cost and environmental impact of floating photovoltaic plants
- Available surface and preparation
- Electric material costs
- Supports of land-based photovoltaics and floating photovoltaics (CAPEX)
- Class 1
- Class 2
- Class 3 and Class 4
- Human work for assembly and connection operation
- Managing and decommissioning
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Back Cover.