CN110350861B - Self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention belongs to the field of photovoltaic equipment, and particularly relates to a self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel which comprises a panel body, wherein wave-shaped rails are fixedly connected to two sides of the panel body, tooth grooves are formed in the side walls, close to the panel body, of the wave-shaped rails, a shell is arranged on the upper surface of the panel body, two ends of the shell and one side, close to the panel body, of the shell are both arranged in an open mode, two cleaning plates are connected to the inner side wall of the shell in a sliding mode, the two cleaning plates are fixedly connected through a reset spring, and one ends, close to the wave-shaped rails, of the cleaning plates are connected with a driving gear through a wind power driving mechanism in a transmission mode. The solar cleaning board can drive the cleaning board to slide up and down on the surface of the solar panel through intermittent wind power to automatically clean and remove dust, the cleaning board can reciprocate left and right while sliding up and down through the wavy rails, the cleaning effect is better, and fine dust which is difficult to clean is blown through the elastic corrugated pipe.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of photovoltaic equipment, and particularly relates to a self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel.
Background
With the enhancement of environmental awareness of people, the traditional thermal power generation mode and other modes, such as solar power generation mode, wind power generation mode and the like, are gradually replaced by the more environmental-friendly power generation mode. The solar photovoltaic panel is also called as a solar chip or a photovoltaic cell, and is a photoelectric semiconductor slice which directly generates electricity by utilizing sunlight, a single solar cell can not be directly used as a power supply, a plurality of single solar cells are required to be connected in series and in parallel and tightly packaged into a component as the power supply, and the solar power generation mode has two modes, namely a light-heat-electricity conversion mode and a light-electricity direct conversion mode.
The solar photovoltaic board sets up mostly in the comparatively abundant wide area of sunshine, and the wide area is comparatively far away and the wind-dust is great mostly, therefore the easy dust that covers in solar photovoltaic board surface, the dust covers on the solar photovoltaic board subassembly, lead to the holistic luminousness of subassembly to descend, in photovoltaic system operation process, the luminousness descends, the ability nature of accepting illumination reduces, and then influence the generated energy, probably lead to the hot spot effect when serious, then damage the solar photovoltaic board subassembly, cause great loss, and the comparatively far away in wide area, it is comparatively difficult to clean the solar photovoltaic board artificially, waste time and energy, and current automatic cleaning device is not only complicated in structure, therefore, the cost is higher, and can only do the ascending reciprocating motion of folk prescription, play simple effect of scraping the ash, clean effect is not ideal, be unfavorable for using widely on a large scale.
To this end, we propose a self-dusting solar photovoltaic panel to solve the above problems.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems that the solar panel is difficult to clean and has poor cleaning effect, and provides a self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel with low cost and good cleaning effect.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: the utility model provides a from dust removal type solar photovoltaic board, the package rubbing board body, the equal fixedly connected with wave track in plate body both sides, the wave track is close to and is equipped with the tooth's socket on the lateral wall of plate body, the plate body upper surface is equipped with the casing, the both ends of casing and the equal opening setting in one side of being close to the plate body, sliding connection has two to clean the board on the inside wall of casing, two clean through reset spring fixed connection between the board, it is connected with drive gear through the transmission of wind-force actuating mechanism to clean the board near orbital one end of wave, drive gear is connected with the tooth's socket meshing on the wave track.
In the self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel, the wind power driving mechanism comprises a rotating shaft which is coaxially and fixedly connected with the driving gear, a first bevel gear is coaxially and fixedly connected with the upper end of the rotating shaft, a fan is arranged on one side of the cleaning plate, a driving shaft is coaxially and fixedly connected with one side of the fan, one end of the driving shaft extends into the cleaning plate and is coaxially and fixedly connected with a second bevel gear, and the first bevel gear is meshed with the second bevel gear.
In the self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel, the two cleaning plates are fixedly connected through the elastic corrugated pipe, the upper end of the elastic corrugated pipe is fixedly communicated with the one-way air inlet pipe, the lower end of the elastic corrugated pipe is fixedly communicated with the one-way air blowing pipe, and the one-way air inlet pipe and the one-way air blowing pipe penetrate through the shell and extend out of the shell.
Compared with the prior art, this from dust removal type solar photovoltaic board's advantage lies in:
1. according to the invention, the fan is arranged, when wind is strong, the fan rotates under the blowing of wind power, the fan drives the gear to rotate, the sweeping board is driven to move upwards along the track, when the wind power is small, the sweeping board moves downwards under the action of gravity, the automatic sweeping of the board body is realized, and the process utilizes clean wind energy to provide power, so that the energy-saving and environment-friendly effects are achieved.
2. According to the cleaning device, the wavy track is arranged, when the cleaning plates move to wave crests, the reset springs are extruded, the two cleaning plates are close to each other, when the wave crests are reached, the reset springs are reset, the two cleaning plates are far away from each other, the two cleaning plates reciprocate left and right while moving up and down, and the cleaning effect is good.
3. According to the invention, the corrugated pipe is arranged, when the two sweeping plates reciprocate left and right, the elastic corrugated pipe can be repeatedly extruded and stretched, air is sucked in through the one-way air suction pipe when the elastic corrugated pipe is stretched, and the air is blown out from the one-way air blowing pipe when the elastic corrugated pipe is stretched, so that fine dust which is difficult to clean on the plate body is blown off, and the cleaning effect is further improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment 1 of a self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel provided by the invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a wind power driving mechanism in embodiment 1 of a self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel provided by the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic side view of a wave-shaped track in embodiment 1 of a self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel provided by the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel in embodiment 2.
In the figure, a plate body 1, a wavy track 2, a shell 3, a cleaning plate 4, a return spring 5, a driving gear 6, a rotating shaft 7, a first bevel gear 8, a fan 9, a driving shaft 10, a second bevel gear 11, an elastic corrugated pipe 12, a one-way air inlet pipe 13 and a one-way air blowing pipe 14 are arranged.
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The following examples are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1-3, a from dust removal type solar photovoltaic board, which comprises a board body 1, the equal fixedly connected with wave track 2 in plate body 1 both sides, two wave track 2 mirror image settings, wave track 2 is equipped with the tooth's socket on being close to the lateral wall of plate body 1, plate body 1 upper surface is equipped with casing 3, the both ends of casing 3 and the equal opening setting in one side of being close to plate body 1, sliding connection has two cleaning plates 4 on the inside wall of casing 3, cleaning plate 4 and casing 3 are made by the light-duty material of plastics, fixedly connected with brush hair on the lateral wall of cleaning plate 4 and plate body 1 contact, two cleaning plates 4 between through reset spring 5 fixed connection, reciprocating motion about two cleaning plates 4 go on in the up-and-down motion, it is clean effectual.
The one end that cleans board 4 and is close to wave track 2 is connected with drive gear 6 through the transmission of wind-force actuating mechanism, it should be explained, wind-force actuating mechanism includes pivot 7 with the coaxial fixed connection of drive gear 6, the first bevel gear 8 of the coaxial fixed connection in upper end of pivot 7, one side of cleaning board 4 is equipped with fan 9, the coaxial fixedly connected with drive shaft 10 of one side of fan 9, the one end of drive shaft 10 extends to in cleaning board 4 and coaxial fixedly connected with second bevel gear 11, first bevel gear 8 is connected with second bevel gear 11 meshing, drive gear 6 is connected with the tooth's socket meshing on the wave track 2, clean wind energy has been utilized and power is provided, automatically, energy-concerving and environment-protective to plate body 1.
When wind is strong, the fan 9 rotates under the blowing of wind power, the fan 9 drives the second bevel gear 11 to rotate, the first bevel gear 8 rotates and then drives the driving gear 6 to rotate, the sweeping plate 4 is driven to move upwards along the wavy track 2, when the wind power is small, the sweeping plate 4 moves downwards under the action of gravity, the automatic sweeping of the plate body 1 is realized, clean wind energy is utilized to provide power in the process, and the energy conservation and environmental protection are realized;
simultaneously, when cleaning board 4 and removing the crest department to wave track 2, reset spring 5 is extrudeed, and two cleaning boards 4 are close to each other, and when reaching the crest, reset spring 5 resets, and two cleaning boards 4 keep away from each other, then two cleaning boards 4 carry out reciprocating motion about going on in the up-and-down motion, and clean effect is better.
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As shown in fig. 4, the present embodiment is different from embodiment 1 in that: two cleaning plates 4 are fixedly connected through an elastic corrugated pipe 12, the upper end of the elastic corrugated pipe 12 is fixedly communicated with a one-way air inlet pipe 13, the lower end of the elastic corrugated pipe 12 is fixedly communicated with a one-way air blowing pipe 14, and the one-way air inlet pipe 13 and the one-way air blowing pipe 14 both penetrate through the shell 3 and extend out of the shell 3.
When the two sweeping plates 4 reciprocate left and right, the elastic corrugated pipe 12 can be repeatedly extruded and stretched, the elastic corrugated pipe 12 sucks air through the one-way air suction pipe 13 when being stretched, and blows out the air from the one-way air blowing pipe 14 when being extruded, fine dust which is difficult to clean through the sweeping plates 4 on the plate body 1 is blown off, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning plate is further improved.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.
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1. The self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel comprises a panel body (1), and is characterized in that both sides of the panel body (1) are fixedly connected with wave-shaped rails (2), the side wall, close to the panel body (1), of each wave-shaped rail (2) is provided with a tooth socket, the upper surface of the panel body (1) is provided with a shell (3), both ends of each shell (3) and one side, close to the panel body (1), of each shell are provided with openings, the inner side wall of each shell (3) is connected with two cleaning plates (4) in a sliding mode, the two cleaning plates (4) are fixedly connected through a reset spring (5), one ends, close to the wave-shaped rails (2), of the cleaning plates (4) are connected with driving gears (6) through a wind power driving mechanism in a transmission mode, and the driving gears (6) are connected with the tooth sockets on the wave-shaped rails (2) in a meshing mode; two clean between the board (4) through elasticity bellows (12) fixed connection, the upper end fixed intercommunication of elasticity bellows (12) has one-way intake pipe (13), the lower extreme fixed intercommunication of elasticity bellows (12) has one-way gas blow pipe (14), one-way intake pipe (13) and one-way gas blow pipe (14) all run through casing (3) and extend to casing (3) and set up outward.
2. The self-dedusting solar photovoltaic panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wind driving mechanism comprises a rotating shaft (7) coaxially and fixedly connected with the driving gear (6), a first bevel gear (8) is coaxially and fixedly connected to the upper end of the rotating shaft (7), a fan (9) is arranged on one side of the cleaning plate (4), a driving shaft (10) is coaxially and fixedly connected to one side of the fan (9), one end of the driving shaft (10) extends into the cleaning plate (4) and is coaxially and fixedly connected with a second bevel gear (11), and the first bevel gear (8) is meshed with the second bevel gear (11).
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