Cooling of a photovoltaic module with temperature controlled solar collector

The performance of a novel flat heat pipe based thermal and PV/T (photovoltaic and thermal systems) solar collector that can be used as an energy-active building envelope material

“…Based on the presented model, the authors have demonstrated that the performance of HP-PV/T system increases with the increase of the flow rate, which is to be expected based on earlier research. Annual energy analysis of heat pipe PV/T systems have been reported by many researchers [26,28,29]. The reported work demonstrates clearly that solutions integrating the PV systems and thermal energy systems are important for high efficiency of the solar energy technologies.…”

Experimental demonstration of enhanced solar energy utilization in flat PV (photovoltaic) modules cooled by heat spreaders in conjunction with cotton wick structures

“…Krauter [12] Water cooled PV Active cooling 2 Odehand and Behnia [13] Water trickled PV Active cooling 3 Abdolzadeh and Ameri [14] Spraying water over the photovoltaic cells Active cooling 4 Royne and Dey [15] Jet impingement cooling devices Active cooling 5 Ceylan et al [16] Spiral heat exchanger at the rear side of PV panel Active cooling 6 Bahaidarah et al [17] Water tubes at the rear side of PV panel Active cooling 7…”

“…[26e28] Buoyancy driven air flow induced in a duct Passive cooling 16 Sheyda et al [29] Wind driven roof top turbine ventilator Passive cooling 17 Solanki et al [30] Reflectors acting as heat dissipater Passive cooling 18 Maiti et al [31] PCM system for thermal regulation of module Passive cooling 19 Huang et al [32,33] PCM in combination with internal fins Passive cooling 20…”

A review on the thermal regulation techniques for non integrated flat PV modules mounted on building top

“…High velocity liquid is forced through a narrow hole onto PV surface [23] Large amount of heat could be dissipated due to thin thermal boundary layer that is formed in the stagnation zone directly under the impingement An array of jets is required to avoid uneven cooling; Interaction of liquids in an array of jets; orifice design; stand-off distance 3 Mounting heat exchangers in the rear side of PV panel [24][25][26][27]29,30] Heat is dissipated to the cooling medium that is being circulated in the heat exchanger…”

“…A simple pipe was placed on the back side of the PV module as a spiral heat exchanger in order to provide active cooling for large scale systems by Ceylan et al [24]. From the result of their experimental research, the module efficiency with cooling and without cooling was calculated as 13% and 10%, respectively.…”