Currently the number of fire incidents involving photovoltaic (PV) systems are increasing as a result of the strong increase of PV installations. These incidents are terrible and immeasurable on life and properties. It is thus very important to understand the causes, effects and how prevent the occurrence of incidents.
In order to minimize the risks of fire accidents in large scale applications of solar panels, this review focuses on the latest techniques for reducing hot spot effects and DC arcs. The risk mitigation solutions mainly focus on two aspects: structure reconfiguration and faulty diagnosis algorithm.
The hot spot effect and aging of PV panels were found responsible in previous fire accidents can be caused by the dust density around the PV array, the ambient temperature, and the material structure of the PV array. Preventive solutions to the fire accident can be distinguished into solar panel reconfiguration and fire fault detection algorithm.
Fires on roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems are rare. When they do happen, however, a combination of electrical hazards, combustible components and limited access can result in significant losses. As the technology becomes more common, this paper discusses how building owners and occupiers should approach and minimise the risks of PV systems.
The causes, effects and preventions of solar electric fire incident to the user, in some cases, are not known, but understanding them is important to obtain a valuable solar power.
Existing approaches to avoid solar PV fire accidents mainly include preventive actions. The preventive actions include array recombination and detection algorithm research. The studies [40-50] illustrate the reconfiguration of PV modules or PV arrays, and the studies [51-78] introduce algorithm to detect the faulty PV modules. FIGURE 9.
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