what is a research scope?

Scoping is figuring out what, exactly, to explore for a study. It’s a Goldilocks
problem: you don’t want the scope too broad, or you will not see patterns appear in
the data, but you don’t want it too narrow, or the participants will tell you
everything they have to say about it in five minutes. You want to get the scope just
right–somewhere in between these two extremes.
The scope is how you begin a listening session. It’s how you introduce the subject
you’d like the participant to cover, and it’s the only question you think of in
advance.
You can explore several different scopes over time, each examining an intent or
purpose a person has before reaching for your solution. Each scope has its own
study. Scopes are difficult–often it takes a week of discussion to figure out which
scope to explore for an upcoming study. Sometimes you discover a scope is too
broad or too narrow after the few couple of listening sessions, so you must adjust it
mid-study.
Scopes are difficult to define because of the tendency to tie them to a technology or
tool. This is the solution space. In this research approach, you want to explore the
problem space. Your organization and its solutions should not be included or
implied by the scope statement.
The scope of a research explains the extent to which the research area will be
explored in the work and specifies the parameters within the study will be
operating.

Basically, this means that you will have to define what the study is going to cover
and what it is focusing on. Similarly, you also have to define what the study is not
going to cover. This will come under the limitations. Generally, the scope of a
research paper is followed by its limitations. 

As a researcher, you have to be careful when you define your scope or area of
focus. Remember that if you broaden the scope too much, you might not be able to
do justice to the work or it might take a very long time to complete. Consider the
feasibility of your work before you write down the scope. Again, if the scope is too
narrow, the findings might not be generalizable.

Typically, the information that you need to include in the scope would cover
the following:

1. General purpose of the study

2. The population or sample that you are studying

3. The duration of the study

4. The topics or theories that you will discuss

5. The geographical location covered in the study

ME790 Sample RESEARCH SCOPE

Title of the project: Photovoltaic Panels Cooling with Aid of Soiling Reduction
Techniques,
Name:
St. Number:

The efficiency of a Photovoltaic (PV) cell is highly dependent on several factors

including, but not limited to: Solar radiation, cell temperature (Tc), dust and
particles accumulation, and ambient air humidity. The impact of cell temperature
on the outcome of energy generation is well studied over the past decades and
amounts to a loss of 0.4% of efficiency with every 1Co increase over the specified
standards conditions1 (Tc = 25Co and solar- irradiance of 1000W.m-2). Thus, in
hot climate regions such as those in the Middle East region; the efficiency of a PV
cell suffers. In those regions, various cooling techniques can be used to regulate the
temperature of the cell for the benefit of higher efficiency. However, using
irrational or poorly constructed cooling techniques may and most probably will
result in diminishing the energy output of the PV cell, rendering the whole system
useless.
It has been shown by S. Krauter that employing running water as an intermediary
between panel surface and air was to reduce the cell temperature by 22Co and
return an 8-9% increase in efficiency after accounting for power needed to run the
pump 2. Also, water spray cooling is observed to achieve a total increase of 14.1%
(effective 5.9%) in PV panel electrical efficiency in circumstances of peak solar
irradiation via drop of temperature from 54Co to 24Co 3.
On the other hand, soft soiling of a PV cell refers to the accumulation of dirt and
other particles on the surface of the panel. It strongly depends on the environment
at which the system resides and reduces the efficiency of the cell depending on the
severity of accumulation4 which can lead to significant reduction in performance
reaching up to 43%5 in desert areas.
Solar radiation in the Middle East region is abundant which makes a technology
such as Photovoltaic solar harnessing very promising. Nevertheless, the hot climate
and desert landscape pose a challenge in elevated cell temperatures and
accumulation of dust on the panel surface. That being so, a system that can deliver
one integral solution to both issues would be of high importance to such projects in
the region.

References: (please use the Harvard style)

1- S. Krauter………………..