In the past few years, solar energy has been developed mainly in accordance with the active promotion of renewable energy, and solar power generation business is rapidly increasing. As a result, studies on the performance of solar panels are constantl...
In the past few years, solar energy has been developed mainly in accordance with the active promotion of renewable energy, and solar power generation business is rapidly increasing. As a result, studies on the performance of solar panels are constantly being conducted, but there is a lack of research on solar systems supported as structures.
In Korea, there is no standard for the design load of the solar system installed as a structure, so the standard of the independent roof is used. However, even with the same solar system, the influence of air currents will be greatly different in various conditions such as panel angle and array arrangement of solar panels as well as panel interval and separation distance. The standard of independent roofs may lack trust in the structural safety of such solar systems.
Therefore, this study conducted wind tunnel experiment to prepare systematic design load standards by analyzing lift force, drag force, and normal force according to wind direction angle and position change for wind load applied to multi array solar system used for the arrangement of large solar power generation system installed on the ground.
Wind tunnel experiment was conducted by independent experiment and array experiment. The model of the independent experiment was 1:25 scale, and each panel was arranged through 8×2 array, and experiment was conducted as a single structure. In the solar array experiment, a total of 15 models were installed with 3×5 arrays of single experiment model.
The wind coefficients were obtained by the terrain category and the wind direction angle by the panel angle of inclination through the independent experiment. The wind coefficient distribution by the array position was identified by the wind direction angle as well as the comparison with the single experiment through the array experiment. In addition, the difference between the wind force coefficient and the net pressure coefficient of the independent roof of the domestic design load standard was confirmed.
The results show that the uniformity of the panel angle is greater than the condition of the errain category C and the larger the panel angle of inclination is increased. In addition, except for some positions in the array arrangement, the coefficient distribution is lower than the single experiment overall, and the coefficient is large in the row closest to the mean flow direction and it is greatly reduced in the next row. Overall, the coefficients of the array arrangements were relatively high and higher than the single experiment.