Shetty, Divya and Arunachala, U C (2019) Thermal management of conventional P V module. In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy International Conference 2019, 26/03/2019, Dubai.

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Abstract

Cooling of PV module is important because with the increase in cell temperature, efficiency drops. In crystalline silicon cell, the power temperature coefficient is -0.05% for 1°C rise in temperature. The life span of PV also reduces due to same reason. Hence, various PV cooling techniques are employed viz. water spray, use of heat pipes, PCM and thermoelectric coating. All such systems have inherent limitations and hence, in the present study an innovative water duct cooling is introduced. Due to it, the PV module temperature is reduced from 47.6°C to 34°C at 300 W/m2 and 66.4°C to 38°C at 900 W/m2 for water flow rate of 1 lpm, which gave 4-7.2% rise in electrical efficiency. The highest thermal efficiency and overall system efficiency observed were 76.64% and 79.1% respectively

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	—Phase change material, Electrical efficiency, I-V characteristics, Overall efficiency
Subjects:	Engineering > MIT Manipal > Mechanical and Manufacturing
Depositing User:	MIT Library
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2019 09:45
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2019 09:45
URI:	http://eprints.manipal.edu/id/eprint/154117

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