Active Cooling Of Solar Panels

Air conditioning water refrigeration etc.

Active cooling of solar panels.

There are a variety of ways in which pv panel can be cooled. A heat transfer simulation model was developed to compare to the actual temperature profile of pv module and good agreement between the simulation and experimental results is obtained. The most obvious way to cool a solar panel would be to use the same methods that we use to cool anything else. Hybrid photovoltaic thermal pv t solar system is one of the most popular methods for cooling the photovoltaic panels nowadays 12 13 14.

The hybrid system consists of a solar photovoltaic. Scientists from egypt s benha university have proposed an active cooling technique for pv panels based on the use of water and a mixture of aluminum oxide al 2 o 3 and phase change material. The temperature of the pv panel before and after cooling is 45 c and 35 c respectively. Without active cooling the temperature of the module was high and solar cells can only achieve an efficiency of 8 9.