Enhancing Photoelectric Conversion Efficiency of Solar Panel by Water Cooling

Musthafa, M Mohamed

doi:10.4172/2090-4541.1000166

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“…over 100 °C) to below 60 °C, leading to a significant increase in electric power output. More similar studies can be found in Chaniotakis , Moharram et al and Musthafa . By applying active cooling strategies, panel temperature can be significantly lowered.…”

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Thermal management of solar cells using a nano-coated heat pipe plate: an indoor experimental study

Chen

et al. 2016

Int. J. Energy Res.

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Summary With temperature increasing, the photovoltaic efficiency of solar cells is reduced significantly. Such an efficiency loss may offset the efficiency improvement because of the development of the photovoltaic technology. This paper provides a novel approach for efficiency loss recovery of solar cells. Specifically, a nano‐coated heat pipe plate was integrated with the solar panel to remove heat from the hotspots on solar cells. This study concerns the indoor experiments of a commercial solar cell thermally managed with a heat pipe plate. The temperature rise and non‐uniformity on the solar panel were quantified in different light irradiances. With thermal management by the heat pipe plate, the solar panel shows a temperature‐rise reduction of 47–50%. This implies that half of the efficiency loss of the solar cell can be recovered. In addition, the temperature variation within the solar panel is reduced to 1.0–2.5 °C, which is beneficial in prolonging the longevity of the solar cell. In the experiments, the heat pipe plate can provide a cooling flux of 380 W/m2 with light irradiance below 1000 W/m2. By incorporating the heat pipe plate with a water jacket, the heat removal flux could be improved to 600 W/m2, leading to a solar cell temperature of a few degrees higher than the ambient. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Thermal management of solar cells using a nano-coated heat pipe plate: an indoor experimental study

Chen

et al. 2016

Int. J. Energy Res.

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“…Five litres of water cane, hose with flowing knob, water absorbing sponge and drain pipe for collecting the water form a cooling system of solar panel. The efficiency of solar cells increased by 12% when temperature dropped maximally by 4°C [13].…”

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“…Many works have been performed and demonstrated cooling parts of the panel with water did succeed in bringing down the operating panel temperature and subsequently increase the panel (energy conversion) efficiency [2,5,[11][12][13][14][15][16]. Backside cooling of the panels were widely reported and studied so far via immersion technique [12,14,15].…”

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Efficiency Improvement Based on Cooling Effect via Immersion Technique in a PV Solar Panel: Tropical and Cloudy Weather Setting

Y¹,

Ting²

2016

International Journal of Innovative Research in Electrical, Ele

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For decades, world's energy crisis was a major concern to the world and lots of study have been carried out in renewable energy sources field particularly on solar energy. However, the solar panel only receives around 20% from the energy of sunlight. Research shows that the efficiency of Photovoltaic (PV) solar panel is actually inversely proportional to temperature and resulted in low efficiency in the energy conversion. This is further negatively compounded by the presence of widely scattered clouds and the location of the sun which is directly overhead at noon times in the regions marked along the earth geographical's Equator line for example Malaysia and others. In this project, panel efficiency improvement caused by cooling via immersion technique was studied and the experimental setup system was installed on the rooftop of one the building at University College of Technology Sarawak, Sibu. Different cooling media were used in order to gauge the performance of different cooling effect caused by different cooling media to the efficiency of solar panel. Up-to-now, there is no technical data reported so far in the tropical weather particularly in Malaysia on this subject considering different weather, humidity and geographic location.

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“…The first PV cells were produced by Bell Laboratories in 1954 [5] and since then the technology has been improving, resulting in growth in the efficiency and reduction of costs. One of the most challenging factors in using photovoltaic systems is that the conversion efficiency of PV modules is still relatively low, about 15% [6]. In Laboratories, efficiencies of up to 25% have been reached, but in commercial use the efficiencies reach only 14-17% [5].…”

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Cooling effects on photovoltaic module performance in the tropical region

Ale

Rotinpin

2019

Nig. J. Tech.

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This research was carried out to investigate the effects of cooling on Photovoltaic (PV) module performance in a tropical region. A Photovoltaic module system was set up in an outdoor environment to expose it to real life operating conditions at the Quadrangle, Faculty of Technology, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria (7°24´7.0632´´N, 3° 55´ 2.3268´´E), where all the measuring devices were connected to extract all data that determine the power generated by the PV. The experiment was repeated under water cooling condition. Time series analysis was performed on the data collected from the experimental set up. The results indicated that under water cooling condition, the temperature decreased maximally by . ℃. This leads to a percentage increase of . % of the open circuit voltage, the maximum power delivered by the PV module also increases by . % and this effectively increases the conversion efficiency of the PV module by . %. The cooling arrangement maintains the temperature to a certain limit, between .° and .°thereby avoiding long term thermal degradation. The result of this work further corroborated the results of works done from the temperate region.

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Enhancing Photoelectric Conversion Efficiency of Solar Panel by Water Cooling

Cited by 19 publications

References 14 publications

Thermal management of solar cells using a nano-coated heat pipe plate: an indoor experimental study

Thermal management of solar cells using a nano-coated heat pipe plate: an indoor experimental study

Efficiency Improvement Based on Cooling Effect via Immersion Technique in a PV Solar Panel: Tropical and Cloudy Weather Setting

Cooling effects on photovoltaic module performance in the tropical region

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