Thermal Analysis of a Hybrid Solar Collector

Hybrid photovoltaic/thermal solar energy systems

“…The investigations on the water-type PV/T systems are less studied compared to air-type PV/T systems due to their high cost and previous studies involved such parameters as fin-absorber plate and tube dimension (Bergene and Lovvik, 1995), fluid flow rates (Garg and Agarwal, 1995;Kalogirou, 2001), cell packing factor (Fujisawa and Tani, 2001), use of amorphous silicon (Lalovic et al, 1986/87), field performance of the first commercial water-type PV/T system (Elazari, 1998) and use of serpentine heat exchanger (Falkenberg and Bastos, 2000).…”