DESIGN OF COOLING FOR SOLAR PANEL USING A COMBINATION OF HEATPIPE AND HEATSINK TO INCREASE POWER OUTPUT

• Main Author: Hasanain, Mukti
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/82055
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

In order to committe with paris agreement which have to decrease greenhouse gas by 29% at 2023, PLN encouraged to develop more power plant with renewable energy based, such as solar power plant (PLTS). Increasing solar irradiance affects in higher power output of solar power plant but the fact is higher solar irradiance leads to increasing PV cell temperature too. When PV cell temperature getting higher, it leads to decreasing power output of PV module. With this problem we need cooling system to reduce PV cell temperature. In this final project, there are three alternative design consist of heatsink, heatpipe, and combination of both. Among these alternative solutions, the combination was selected as best solution. The combination consist of 5 heatsink (each heatsink has 12 fins) and 12 heatpipe (each heatpipe has a length of 150mm) which is placed at the back surface of PV module. This design can produce power output around 45.269 W (at 1000 W/m2) and PV cell temperature around 43.462 ?C ( at 800 W/m2).