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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2015.027</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2015.027</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>A novel way to calculate the light transmittance loss of glass for photovoltaic (PV) modules according to known accumulated dust density</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
        <name><surname>Jiang</surname><given-names>Yu</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        <email>jy293251@sina.com</email>
      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Lu</surname><given-names>Lin</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
      </contrib>
      <aff id="aff1">Renewable Energy Research Group, Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>06</day><month>07</month><year>2016</year></pub-date>
      <volume>14</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-0-85358-313-4</isbn>
      <fpage>292</fpage>
      <lpage>298</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2015.027"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>6 July 2016</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2015 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract><p>Accumulated dust will decrease the light transmittance of glasses for Photovoltaic (PV) modules and thus has a negative effect on the energy conversion efficiency of (PV) modules greatly. However, there has been no model to accurately calculate the change of light transmittance of PV modules based on known accumulated dust density. In this paper, a novel way is built to calculate light transmittance resulting from accumulated dust. This way considers two processes. One is light refraction process and the other is light extinction process. For engineers, if they measure the refraction and extinction parameter of local accumulated dust, the light reduction can be calculated by this model easily. In addition, for Arizona Dust, the refraction parameter is 1.5459 and the extinction parameter is 0.028 based on the experimental results.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Accumulated dust</kwd>
        <kwd>Photovoltaic(PV) modules</kwd>
        <kwd>Light transmittance</kwd>
        <kwd>Dust density</kwd>
        <kwd>Extinction coefficient</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>25 to 27 August 2015</conf-date>
        <conf-name>14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2015</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>14</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Nottingham, United Kingdom</conf-loc>
      </conference>
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