DocumentCode
122151
Title
Fire at a PV installation
Author
Shapiro, Finley R.
Author_Institution
Finley Shapiro Consulting, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA
fYear
2014
fDate
8-13 June 2014
Firstpage
2757
Lastpage
2758
Abstract
A large food storage facility with a 1.6MW rooftop PV array was destroyed by a fire that began on the roof. During the early part of the fire the inverters were collecting data from the rooftop array, and two of the three inverters were still outputting AC power. Interesting features in the collected data correspond to the progress of the fire. The experience suggests measures that would have been valuable to firefighters once the fire started.
Keywords
building integrated photovoltaics; electrical installation; fires; invertors; PV installation; data collection; fire; firefighter; food storage facility; inverter; outputting AC power; power 1.6 MW; rooftop PV array; Abstracts; Arrays; Buildings; Fires; Indexes; Inverters; Wires; PV systems; fire; inverter data; rooftop systems;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th
Conference_Location
Denver, CO
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925499
Filename
6925499
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