TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of climate on electrical performance of finned phase change material integrated solar photovoltaic
AU - Khanna, Sourav
AU - Reddy, K. S.
AU - Mallick, Tapas K.
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - Photovoltaic (PV) cells absorb the incident solar radiation while operation of which, majority part causes heating leading to the hampered electrical efficiency. PVs can be integrated with phase change material (PCM) to maintain cell temperature within desired limits and the effect can be improved by deploying fins. The current work aims at analysing the effect of climate on the electrical performance of finned PCM integrated PV. Modelling of system has been done which has been validated using experimental results. For the study, fins with various spacings, thicknesses and lengths are used. The main conclusions of the study are, (a) for less alterative climate, the improvement in the PV electrical output (using finned PCM) is 9.7%, 10.8%, 11.3%, 11.6% and 11.6% respectively for a spacing of 1 m, 1/2 m, 1/3 m, 1/4 m and 1/5 m. For highly alterative climate, the respective values reduce to 6.6%, 7.6%, 8.1%, 8.4% and 8.4%, (b) for warmer climate, the output increases by 10.1%, 11.3%, 11.8%, 12.1% and 12.1% while for colder climate, it increases only by 5.4%, 6.1%, 6.5%, 6.7% and 6.7%, (c) for windy climate, the power increments are significantly lesser as compared to the other case, (d) climate having higher wind azimuth results in better performance of finned PCM, and (e) for clear sky climate, performance of finned PCM is better.
AB - Photovoltaic (PV) cells absorb the incident solar radiation while operation of which, majority part causes heating leading to the hampered electrical efficiency. PVs can be integrated with phase change material (PCM) to maintain cell temperature within desired limits and the effect can be improved by deploying fins. The current work aims at analysing the effect of climate on the electrical performance of finned PCM integrated PV. Modelling of system has been done which has been validated using experimental results. For the study, fins with various spacings, thicknesses and lengths are used. The main conclusions of the study are, (a) for less alterative climate, the improvement in the PV electrical output (using finned PCM) is 9.7%, 10.8%, 11.3%, 11.6% and 11.6% respectively for a spacing of 1 m, 1/2 m, 1/3 m, 1/4 m and 1/5 m. For highly alterative climate, the respective values reduce to 6.6%, 7.6%, 8.1%, 8.4% and 8.4%, (b) for warmer climate, the output increases by 10.1%, 11.3%, 11.8%, 12.1% and 12.1% while for colder climate, it increases only by 5.4%, 6.1%, 6.5%, 6.7% and 6.7%, (c) for windy climate, the power increments are significantly lesser as compared to the other case, (d) climate having higher wind azimuth results in better performance of finned PCM, and (e) for clear sky climate, performance of finned PCM is better.
KW - RCUK
KW - EPSRC
KW - EP/K03619X/1
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053782814&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/35447
U2 - 10.1016/j.solener.2018.09.023
DO - 10.1016/j.solener.2018.09.023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053782814
SN - 0038-092X
VL - 174
SP - 593
EP - 605
JO - Solar Energy
JF - Solar Energy
ER -