COOLING PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS USING PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS – EXPERIMENTS AND ECONOMICAL STUDY | ||
| ERJ. Engineering Research Journal | ||
| Article 4, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2017, Pages 25-29 PDF (524.42 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjm.2017.66329 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M. Khaled1; F. Hachem1; Gad El-Rab2; M. Ramadan1 | ||
| 1Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Lebanese International University LIU, Beirut, Lebanon | ||
| 2Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Lebanese International University LIU, Beirut, Lebanon/Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Lebanese International University LIU, Beirut, Lebanon | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This work concerns an experimental study of the effect of Phase Change Materials PCM on the thermal behavior and electrical performance of a Photovoltaic PV panel. To proceed, an appropriate experimental setup is devised and two prototypes constructed and tested. Prototype 1 corresponds to a reference case and consists of a stand, a PV panel, and an electrical circuit with a given load. Prototype 2 corresponds to an enhanced case of prototype 1 with in addition a container at the rear face of the PV panel that holds PCM. It was shown that the use of PCM can increase the electrical efficiency of PV panels by an average of 5%. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| PV Cell; PCM; Cooling; Efficiency; Experimental Setup | ||
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