Experimental investigation to thermal performance of different photo voltaic modules for efficient system design

Saad Ur Rehman; M. Farooq; Adnan Qamar; M. Usman; Gulzar Ahmad; M. Sultan; M. Wajid Saleem; Ijaz Hussain; M. Imran; Qasim Ali; M. Yasar Javaid; Farrukh A. Siddiqui

doi:10.1016/j.aej.2022.06.037

Experimental investigation to thermal performance of different photo voltaic modules for efficient system design

Saad Ur Rehman, M. Farooq^*, Adnan Qamar, M. Usman, Gulzar Ahmad, M. Sultan, M. Wajid Saleem, Ijaz Hussain, M. Imran, Qasim Ali, M. Yasar Javaid, Farrukh A. Siddiqui

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Mechanical, Biomedical & Design Engineering

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Abstract

Due to rapid industrialization, and depletion of fossil fuels, alternative renewable resources are mandatory, where solar thermal energy is one of the promising alternate. In this study, an experimental investigation was conducted to analyze the thermal performance of different photovoltaic-modules under varying climate conditions. These include thin plate Copper indium diselenide, mono-crystalline silicon, micro crystalline silicone, amorphous silicon and poly-crystalline silicon. The analysis was concentrated on the evaluation of module efficiency, solar irradiance absorption rate, maximum power output, performance ratio, normalized power output efficiency and temperature effect on each module at real operational outdoor conditions. Mono-crystalline silicon module showed high average efficiency of 20.8% and average performance ratio 1.21 compared to the other PV modules. It was observed that all types of modules have higher average temperature in summer season and showed low performance ratio and low module efficiency as compared to winter season. Average normalized power out of mono-crystalline silicon 56.2% more efficient than the other modules. The increased thermal performance of mono-crystalline silicon was related with its high absorption rate and high conduction rate. Thus, mono-crystalline silicon PV module is the best potential candidate for solar capturing technique to be utilize in diverse solar thermal energy applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	12623-12634
Journal	Alexandria Engineering Journal
Volume	61
Issue number	12
Early online date	30 Jun 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2022.06.037
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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© 2022 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier BV on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Keywords

Performance ratio
Photovoltaic module efficiency
Photovoltaic modules
Renewable energy
Solar irradiance
Thermal performance

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Ur Rehman, S., Farooq, M., Qamar, A., Usman, M., Ahmad, G., Sultan, M., Wajid Saleem, M., Hussain, I., Imran, M., Ali, Q., Yasar Javaid, M., & Siddiqui, F. A. (2022). Experimental investigation to thermal performance of different photo voltaic modules for efficient system design. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 61(12), 12623-12634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2022.06.037

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