Minadohona Maxime Capo-Chichi, Basile Bruno Kounouhéwa, Vianou Irénée Madogni & Macaire Agbomahéna·Advances in Research·2018
Dust is the lesser acknowledged factor that significantly influences the performance of the PV cells/modules. We investigated analytically from optical models, the performance degradation of the BPS150-36 Polycrystalline silicon module, caused by the natural dust deposition effec...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2018/43283
Temperature is extremely significant to the PV modules degradation process, especially hot spots, encapsulant bleaching, delamination failure on interconnections, corrosion, discoloration, and bubbles on the panel’s surface. We investigated the degradation of crystalline silicon...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/42864
Guy Hervé Hounguè, Basile Bruno Kounouhéwa, Mathias Adjimon Houékpohéha, Bernard Noukpo Tokpohozin & Vianou Irénée Madogni·Physical Science International Journal·2018
Wave energy recovery in coastal zones can provide mitigation of flooding and play a very important role in the protection of the coastline. Wave energy potential off the coast of Benin has been investigated from ECMWF ERA reanalysis (ERA40 + ERA-Interim). ERA data have been adjus...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/44226