Firdaus, Basrawi and Leon, Y. C. and Ibrahim, Thamir K. and Mohd Hazwan, Yusof and A. A., Razak and Shaharin Anwar, Sulaiman and Yamada, Takanobu (2018) Experimental analysis on the effect of area of surface cooling for a water-cooled photovoltaic. In: UTP-UMP-VIT Symposium on Energy Systems, SES 2018 , 18-19 September 2018 , Tamil Nadu, India. 1 -6., 225 (01011). ISSN 2261-236X
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Abstract
Water flow for a water-cooled Photovoltaic (PV) may not cover the whole surface area of PV. Thus, the objective of this paper is to experimentally observe the effect of cooling surface area for a water-cooled PV. A water-cooled PV with 30W output was tested when its surface area was 50% and 100% covered with flowing water. This condition was tested at water flow rate of 120 mL/h, and irradiace of 855 W/m2, respectively. It was found that the panel recorded a maximum temperature of 72.10°C when it is uncooled. When it is cooled temperature decreased 22.05% and 51.04% for half and full surface, respectively, and temperature also remained constant approximately at 32oC for full surface. The current remained constant as expected and effect of temperature could be seen in voltage. Voltage increases when temperate decreases, and decreases when temperature increases. As the results, the power outputs for uncooled, half surface, and full surface were 10.38W, 10.66W and 11.08W, respectively. As compared to uncooled, this shows the increment of 6.10% and 13.50% for half surface and full surface, respectively. Thus, it could be concluded that the cooling surface area has substantial effects on the performance of water-cooled PV.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Other) |
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| Additional Information: | Indexed by Scopus |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Photovoltaic effects; Cooling; Flow of water; Hydraulics; Maximum temperature |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Engineering Technology Faculty of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Norsaini Abdul Samat |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2019 01:23 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2019 01:23 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25475 |
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