Marco Mussetta

Prof. Dr. Marco Mussetta

Dept. of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Energy

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Academic Career Length

25Years (2002-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 January 2017 in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
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SLS. Leva
S. Leva
ADAlberto Dolara
Alberto Dolara
Francesco GrimacciaFrancesco Grimaccia
Francesco Grimaccia
Marco MussettaMarco Mussetta
Marco Mussetta
EOE. Ogliari
E. Ogliari

10 June 2014 in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
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PQPaolo Bellezza Quater
Paolo Bellezza Quater
FGFrancesco Grimaccia
Francesco Grimaccia
Sonia LevaSonia Leva
Sonia Leva
Marco MussettaMarco Mussetta
Marco Mussetta
Mohammadreza AghaeiMohammadreza Aghaei
Mohammadreza Aghaei
After a fast photovoltaic (PV) expansion in the past decade supported by many governments in Europe, in this postincentive era, one of the most significant open issues in the PV sector is to find appropriate inspection methods to evaluate real PV plant performance and failures. In this context, PV modules are surely the key components affecting the overall system performance; therefore, there is a main concern about the occurrence of any kind of failure in PV modules. This paper aims to propose a novel concept for monitoring PV plants by using light unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or systems (UASs) during their operation and maintenance. The main objectives of this study are to explore and evaluate the use of different UAV technologies and to propose a reliable, cost-effective, and time-saving method for the inspection of PV plants. In this research, different UAVs were employed to inspect a PV array field. For this purpose, some thermal imaging cameras and a visual camera were chosen as monitoring tools to suitably scan PV modules. The first results show that the procedure of utilizing UAV was effective in the detection of different failures of PV modules. Moreover, such a process was much faster and cost effective than traditional methods.

3 February 2015 in Energies
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ADAlberto Dolara
Alberto Dolara
Francesco GrimacciaFrancesco Grimaccia
Francesco Grimaccia
Sonia LevaSonia Leva
Sonia Leva
Marco MussettaMarco Mussetta
Marco Mussetta
EOEmanuele Ogliari
Emanuele Ogliari
The main purpose of this work is to lead an assessment of the day ahead forecasting activity of the power production by photovoltaic plants. Forecasting methods can play a fundamental role in solving problems related to renewable energy source (RES) integration in smart grids. Here a new hybrid method called Physical Hybrid Artificial Neural Network (PHANN) based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and PV plant clear sky curves is proposed and compared with a standard ANN method. Furthermore, the accuracy of the two methods has been analyzed in order to better understand the intrinsic errors caused by the PHANN and to evaluate its potential in energy forecasting applications.

1 October 2014 in Renewable Energy
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Quan Minh DuongQuan Minh Duong
Quan Minh Duong
FGFrancesco Grimaccia
Francesco Grimaccia
Sonia LevaSonia Leva
Sonia Leva
Marco MussettaMarco Mussetta
Marco Mussetta
EOEmanuele Ogliari
Emanuele Ogliari

12 November 2014 in International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering
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Francesco GrimacciaFrancesco Grimaccia
Francesco Grimaccia
Mohammadreza AghaeiMohammadreza Aghaei
Mohammadreza Aghaei
Marco MussettaMarco Mussetta
Marco Mussetta
Sonia LevaSonia Leva
Sonia Leva
PQP. Bellezza Quater
P. Bellezza Quater
The sustainable use of renewables will represent a key challenge in the near future, and relative energy management operations will play a crucial role in energy efficiency and savings for future generations. The operation and maintenance of energy systems are a very high valuable activity to prevent energy losses, and a correct monitoring can detect in advance equipment degradation guaranteeing good performance over time. Present research strives to find out possibility of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) use in monitoring applications for energy production sites and to investigate effects of this novel method on energy management procedures. Furthermore, investigation about novel approaches in cooperative inspection of real photovoltaic (PV) plants was carried out by light UAVs and utilize the global positioning system to find out the optimum route mapping during the solar PV modules monitoring. The purpose of this work is to propose a reliable, fast and cost effective method for PV plant planning and monitoring by means of UAS technology.

27 February 2018 in Applied Sciences
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Mohamed LouzazniMohamed Louzazni
Mohamed Louzazni
AKAhmed Khouya
Ahmed Khouya
KAKhalid Amechnoue
Khalid Amechnoue
GAGandelli Alessandro
Gandelli Alessandro
Marco MussettaMarco Mussetta
Marco Mussetta
ACAurelian Craciunescu
Aurelian Craciunescu
In this paper, a Firefly algorithm is proposed for identification and comparative study of five, seven and eight parameters of a single and double diode solar cell and photovoltaic module under different solar irradiation and temperature. Further, a metaheuristic algorithm is proposed in order to predict the electrical parameters of three different solar cell technologies. The first is a commercial RTC mono-crystalline silicon solar cell with single and double diodes at 33 °C and 1000 W/m2. The second, is a flexible hydrogenated amorphous silicon a-Si:H solar cell single diode. The third is a commercial photovoltaic module (Photowatt-PWP 201) in which 36 polycrystalline silicon cells are connected in series, single diode, at 25 °C and 1000 W/m2 from experimental current-voltage. The proposed constrained objective function is adapted to minimize the absolute errors between experimental and predicted values of voltage and current in two zones. Finally, for performance validation, the parameters obtained through the Firefly algorithm are compared with recent research papers reporting metaheuristic optimization algorithms and analytical methods. The presented results confirm the validity and reliability of the Firefly algorithm in extracting the optimal parameters of the photovoltaic solar cell.