An active cooling system for photovoltaic module
The electrical efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) cell is adversely affected by the significant increase of cell operating temperature during absorption of solar radiation. A hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar system was designed, fabricated and experimentally investigated in this work. To acti...
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iium-228022014-07-22T02:37:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/22802/ An active cooling system for photovoltaic module Teo, H. G. Lee, P. S. Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam TJ163.26 Energy conservation The electrical efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) cell is adversely affected by the significant increase of cell operating temperature during absorption of solar radiation. A hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar system was designed, fabricated and experimentally investigated in this work. To actively cool the PV cells, a parallel array of ducts with inlet/outlet manifold designed for uniform airflow distribution was attached to the back of the PV panel. Experiments were performed with and without active cooling. A linear trend between the efficiency and temperature was found. Without active cooling, the temperature of the module was high and solar cells can only achieve an efficiency of 8–9%. However, when the module was operated under active cooling condition, the temperature dropped significantly leading to an increase in efficiency of solar cells to between 12% and 14%. A heat transfer simulation model was developed to compare to the actual temperature profile of PV module and good agreement between the simulation and experimental results is obtained. Elsevier 2012-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/22802/1/PV_paper_by_Teo_et_al..pdf Teo, H. G. and Lee, P. S. and Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam (2012) An active cooling system for photovoltaic module. Applied Energy, 90 (1). pp. 309-315. ISSN 0306-2619 doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.01.017 |
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The electrical efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) cell is adversely affected by the significant increase of cell
operating temperature during absorption of solar radiation. A hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar
system was designed, fabricated and experimentally investigated in this work. To actively cool the PV
cells, a parallel array of ducts with inlet/outlet manifold designed for uniform airflow distribution was
attached to the back of the PV panel. Experiments were performed with and without active cooling. A linear
trend between the efficiency and temperature was found. Without active cooling, the temperature of
the module was high and solar cells can only achieve an efficiency of 8–9%. However, when the module
was operated under active cooling condition, the temperature dropped significantly leading to an
increase in efficiency of solar cells to between 12% and 14%. A heat transfer simulation model was developed
to compare to the actual temperature profile of PV module and good agreement between the simulation
and experimental results is obtained. |
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Teo, H. G. Lee, P. S. Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam |
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An active cooling system for photovoltaic module |
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An active cooling system for photovoltaic module |
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An active cooling system for photovoltaic module |
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active cooling system for photovoltaic module |
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