Experimental investigation of cooling photovoltaic panels using phase change material at different angles

Subject Areas : Journal of New Applied and Computational Findings in Mechanical Systems

maziar mirakhorlo ¹ , Mehran Rajabi Zargarabadi ² , mohammad sadegh valipour ³

1 - researcher of semnan university
2 - Faculty of mechanical engineering, Semnan University
3 - Faculty of mechanical engineering semnan university

Received: 2021-05-28 Accepted : 2021-06-15 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: ", phase change material", ", photovoltaic", cooling", ,

Abstract :

The performance improvement of a PV module with the application of phase change material (PCM) in a device known as a PV/PCM module was examined in an experiment. Two 90 watts PV module have been used in the test. One of which is used as reference module and the other as a cooled module. The aluminum enclosure is mounted on the back of the cooled module and is equipped by 50 aluminum pin fins to increase heat transfer. The study has been evaluated outdoors in two cases at two different angles using mixture of salt and water. Both the integrated cases maintained lower PV temperature than the reference PV module. The lower PV temperatures effected by the use of the PCMs prevented the associated PV power loss and increased PV conversion efficiencies.

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