Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module

The solar photovoltaic (PV) cell converts solar energy into electricity with a relatively low efficiency which is <15%. More than 80% of the absorbed solar energy is dumped into the surroundings as heat after photovoltaic conversion. The operating temperature of the photovolatic module should be...

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Main Authors:	Prabhat, Kumar, Akash Kumar, Shukla, Sudhakar, K., R., Mamat
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Language:	English English
Published:	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 2017
Subjects:	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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spelling	ump-184302018-11-29T08:29:42Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18430/ Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module Prabhat, Kumar Akash Kumar, Shukla Sudhakar, K. R., Mamat TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery The solar photovoltaic (PV) cell converts solar energy into electricity with a relatively low efficiency which is <15%. More than 80% of the absorbed solar energy is dumped into the surroundings as heat after photovoltaic conversion. The operating temperature of the photovolatic module should be maintained as low as possible to improve the efficiency. This research work proposes recycle water-cooled solar photovoltaic system design by using a mono-crystalline and amorphous silicon PV module as solar absorber. Recycle water cooling of a normal amorphous and crystalline PV module configured as water base solar PV system by forced flow is studied. The energy and exergy performance of the PV module has been experimentally determined at 3.5 l/min (210 l/h) mass flow rate. The experimental result shows that the water-cooled solar PV module has got better performance than the PV module without cooling. Around 4.5% of amorphous and 3.2% of mono-crystalline module energy efficiency improved on cooling along with 6.5% of amorphous and 5% of mono-crystalline module exergy efficiency improvement with respect to without cooling/normal solar PV module. Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18430/1/Experimental%20exergy%20analysis%20of%20water-cooled%20PV.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18430/7/Experimental%20exergy%20analysis%20of%20water-cooled%20PV%201.pdf Prabhat, Kumar and Akash Kumar, Shukla and Sudhakar, K. and R., Mamat (2017) Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module. International Journal Exergy, 23 (3). pp. 197-209. ISSN 1742-8297 http://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1504/IJEX.2017.085768 DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2017.085768
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description	The solar photovoltaic (PV) cell converts solar energy into electricity with a relatively low efficiency which is <15%. More than 80% of the absorbed solar energy is dumped into the surroundings as heat after photovoltaic conversion. The operating temperature of the photovolatic module should be maintained as low as possible to improve the efficiency. This research work proposes recycle water-cooled solar photovoltaic system design by using a mono-crystalline and amorphous silicon PV module as solar absorber. Recycle water cooling of a normal amorphous and crystalline PV module configured as water base solar PV system by forced flow is studied. The energy and exergy performance of the PV module has been experimentally determined at 3.5 l/min (210 l/h) mass flow rate. The experimental result shows that the water-cooled solar PV module has got better performance than the PV module without cooling. Around 4.5% of amorphous and 3.2% of mono-crystalline module energy efficiency improved on cooling along with 6.5% of amorphous and 5% of mono-crystalline module exergy efficiency improvement with respect to without cooling/normal solar PV module.
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author	Prabhat, Kumar Akash Kumar, Shukla Sudhakar, K. R., Mamat
author_facet	Prabhat, Kumar Akash Kumar, Shukla Sudhakar, K. R., Mamat
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title	Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module
title_short	Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module
title_full	Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module
title_fullStr	Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module
title_full_unstemmed	Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module
title_sort	experimental exergy analysis of water-cooled pv module
publisher	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
publishDate	2017
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Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module

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