Dwivedi, Pushpendu and Ganesh, Sujay Ashwinraj and Kumarasamy, Sudhakar and Soni, Archana and Priya, S. Shanmuga (2023) Thermal and electrical performance of uncooled, nature-cooled, and photovoltaic thermal module. International Journal of Photoenergy, 2023 (4720545). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1687-529X (Online). (Published)
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Abstract
The experimental study is aimed at analyzing photovoltaic module's thermal and electrical performance (PV) with back surface cooling under Malaysian tropical climate conditions. The performance of a passively cooled PV module integrated with biomaterial (moist coconut fiber) was compared with a photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system with water circulation at the rate of 0.02 kg s-1 and a reference PV module. The study observed that the passively cooled PV module succeeded in reducing the module surface temperature by more than 20%. However, the PVT system reduced the temperature only by less than 17%. The electrical energy efficiency was improved remarkably in the passively cooled PV module by almost 11%, but the PVT system managed to increase the electrical efficiency by 9%, approximately. It can be concluded that nature-inspired coconut fiber-based cooling can be one of the potential alternatives to active cooling methods.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Indexed by Scopus |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Biomimetics; Electrical efficiency; Energy efficiency; Surface temperature |
| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Faculty/Division: | Institute of Postgraduate Studies College of Engineering Faculty of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Technology |
| Depositing User: | Mr Muhamad Firdaus Janih@Jaini |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2023 07:22 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2023 07:22 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38241 |
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