TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermal and Electrical Performance of Uncooled, Nature-Cooled, and Photovoltaic Thermal Module
AU - Dwivedi, Pushpendu
AU - Ganesh, Sujay Ashwinraj
AU - Sudhakar, Kumarasamy
AU - Soni, Archana
AU - Priya, S. Shanmuga
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© 2023 Pushpendu Dwivedi et al.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The experimental study is aimed at analyzing photovoltaic module's thermal and electrical performance (PV) with back surface cooling under Malaysian tropical climate conditions. The performance of a passively cooled PV module integrated with biomaterial (moist coconut fiber) was compared with a photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system with water circulation at the rate of 0.02 kg s-1 and a reference PV module. The study observed that the passively cooled PV module succeeded in reducing the module surface temperature by more than 20%. However, the PVT system reduced the temperature only by less than 17%. The electrical energy efficiency was improved remarkably in the passively cooled PV module by almost 11%, but the PVT system managed to increase the electrical efficiency by 9%, approximately. It can be concluded that nature-inspired coconut fiber-based cooling can be one of the potential alternatives to active cooling methods.
AB - The experimental study is aimed at analyzing photovoltaic module's thermal and electrical performance (PV) with back surface cooling under Malaysian tropical climate conditions. The performance of a passively cooled PV module integrated with biomaterial (moist coconut fiber) was compared with a photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system with water circulation at the rate of 0.02 kg s-1 and a reference PV module. The study observed that the passively cooled PV module succeeded in reducing the module surface temperature by more than 20%. However, the PVT system reduced the temperature only by less than 17%. The electrical energy efficiency was improved remarkably in the passively cooled PV module by almost 11%, but the PVT system managed to increase the electrical efficiency by 9%, approximately. It can be concluded that nature-inspired coconut fiber-based cooling can be one of the potential alternatives to active cooling methods.
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U2 - 10.1155/2023/4720545
DO - 10.1155/2023/4720545
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148056643
SN - 1110-662X
VL - 2023
JO - International Journal of Photoenergy
JF - International Journal of Photoenergy
M1 - 4720545
ER -