Simulation and experimental validation of heat transfer in a novel hybrid solar panel

Dynamic Simulation and Modeling of a Novel Combined Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal Panel Hybrid System

“…The conceptual design for a photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) solar panel has been developed and analyzed, to control the inherent temperature increase of PV cells to increase electrical efficiency (Lalovi et al, 1986;Huang and Du, 1991;Bergene and Lovvik, 1995;Garge and Agarwal, 1995;Sandnes and Rekstad, 2002;Chen et al, 2011;Teo et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2012;Gangadevi et al, 2013). A hybrid solar panel has been developed and presented by Yang et al (2012) to integrate photovoltaic (PV) cells onto a substrate through a functionally graded material (FGM) with water tubes cast inside, through which water serves as both heat sink and solar heat collector.…”

“…A hybrid solar panel has been developed and presented by Yang et al (2012) to integrate photovoltaic (PV) cells onto a substrate through a functionally graded material (FGM) with water tubes cast inside, through which water serves as both heat sink and solar heat collector. Yang et al.…”

“…The study presented herein is based on the work previously reported by Yang et al (2012) and Gangadevi et al (2013);Chen et al (2011) where a flat plate solar collector is attached to a PV panel. The hybrid system is composed of the PV solar panel and Thermal solar tube collector (Tripanagnostopoulos et al, 2002) using water as the coolant, and as the heat transferred fluid HTF, various water flow rates at different conditions will also be analyzed to assess their impact on cooling performance of the PV system.…”

“…This energy can be harnessed and supplied to the electrical grid or used in remote areas. However, currently, the efficiency of commercial solar PV is to up to 15% and more than 35% of incoming solar radiation energy is either absorbed or reflected (Lalovi et al, 1986;Bergene and Lovvik, 1995;Teo et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2012) and therefore, significant excess heat is lost. New PV technologies reported in the literature (Lalovi et al, 1986;Huang and Du, 1991;Bergene and Lovvik, 1995;Garge and Agarwal, 1995;Sandnes and Rekstad, 2002;Chen et al, 2011;Teo et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2012;Gangadevi et al, 2013) have been shown to improve energy utilization efficiency of solar PV, such as multi-junction cells, optical frequency shifting, and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems, among others; however, are expensive.…”

Modeling and Simulation of a Novel Combined Solar Photovoltaic-Thermal Panel and Heat Pump Hybrid System

“…The study presented herein is based on the work previously reported by Yang et al [1], and references [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] where a flat plate solar collector is attached to a PV panel. The hybrid system in question is composed of the PV solar panel and thermal solar tube collector as well as a heat pump as shown in Figure 1.…”