Experimental Study on Glazed mc-Si Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal(PVT) System

Jiang, Fan; Seng, Toh Peng; On, Leung Kin; Hua, Goh Leag

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.12.314

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“…The authors also compared the prototype collector's performance with that of existing configurations. Fan et al [16] reported the results of a 10 months experimental analysis of a 900 Wp liquid type glazed mc-Si PVT system, developed in Singapore. The analysis carried out on the operational data showed that the PVT system is capable of achieving 41.1% of the average monthly conversion efficiency.…”

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Design, Simulation and Experimental Investigation of a Solar System Based on PV Panels and PVT Collectors

2016

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This paper presents numerical and experimental analyses aimed at evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) collectors. An experimental setup was purposely designed and constructed in order to compare the electrical performance of a PVT solar field with the one achieved by an identical solar field consisting of conventional photovoltaic (PV) panels. The experimental analysis also aims at evaluating the potential advantages of PVT vs. PV in terms of enhancement of electrical efficiency and thermal energy production. The installed experimental set-up includes four flat polycrystalline silicon PV panels and four flat unglazed polycrystalline silicon PVT collectors. The total electrical power and area of the solar field are 2 kWe and 13 m 2 , respectively. The experimental set-up is currently installed at the company AV Project Ltd., located in Avellino (Italy). This study also analyzes the system from a numerical point of view, including a thermo-economic dynamic simulation model for the design and the assessment of energy performance and economic profitability of the solar systems consisting of glazed PVT and PV collectors. The experimental setup was modelled and partly simulated in TRNSYS environment. The simulation model was useful to analyze efficiencies and temperatures reached by such solar technologies, by taking into account the reference technology of PVTs (consisting of glazed collectors) as well as to compare the numerical data obtained by dynamic simulations with the gathered experimental results for the PV technology. The numerical analysis shows that the PVT global efficiency is about 26%. Conversely, from the experimental point of view, the average thermal efficiency of PVT collectors is around 13% and the electrical efficiencies of both technologies are almost coincident and equal to 15%.

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Design, Simulation and Experimental Investigation of a Solar System Based on PV Panels and PVT Collectors

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“…2 for experimental study on their operational performance. Based on the analyses on experimental data of the PV/T systems, it has turned out that the PV/T systems with three prototypes of PV/T collectors presented different system average conversion efficiencies, ranging from 34.87% for unglazed CIGS PV/T system, 40.05% for unglazed a-Si PV/T system to 41.08% for glazed mc-Si PV/T system [1]- [4]. The results proved the feasibility of PV/T system in the tropical region but improved PV/T collector with high conversion efficiency is needed to enable potential commercialization.…”

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