Progress in floating photovoltaic systems / Marco Rosa-Clot and Giuseppe Marco Tina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosa-Clot, Marco, author.

Marco Tina, Giuseppe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photovoltaic power generation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2025]

Summary:

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 floating PV, its potential, and its role as.

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

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

Economical comparison of tracking floating photovoltaic

Methodology

CAPEX

Revenues

OPEX

Levelized cost of energy

Sensitivity of levelized cost of energy

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

Reliable mooring systems for floating photovoltaic plants

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

Hybrid FPV-HPP and power and energy density

Worldwide analysis.

Future trends, sustainable potential, and hidden opportunities for hydropower sector in European Union

Conclusions

6 Wind load and snow impact on floating photovoltaics

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

7 Offshore solutions for floating photovoltaics

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

8 Measurements on floating photovoltaic plants

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

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

Effects on thermal stratification

Recommendations

Knowledge gaps

Acknowledgments

10 Economic and financial analysis of floating photovoltaics

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

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780443219733

0443219737

9780443219726

0443219729

OCLC:

1500483552