Experimental Exergy Analysis of Water-Cooled PV Module

• Main Authors: Prabhat, Kumar, Akash Kumar, Shukla, Sudhakar, K., R., Mamat
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 2017
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18430/1/Experimental%20exergy%20analysis%20of%20water-cooled%20PV.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18430/7/Experimental%20exergy%20analysis%20of%20water-cooled%20PV%201.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18430/; http://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1504/IJEX.2017.085768
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

The solar photovoltaic (PV) cell converts solar energy into electricity with a relatively low efficiency which is <15%. More than 80% of the absorbed solar energy is dumped into the surroundings as heat after photovoltaic conversion. The operating temperature of the photovolatic module should be...