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Experimental Investigation on the Performance of Photovoltaic Panel with and Without Phase Change Material Heat Sink

Kavikant Mahapatra, Nikhil Gomkhale, Bharti Verma

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The future of solar energy conversion into electricity is one of the recognized classes of technology seeing that abundance of a free and clean source of energy in almost every part of continents. The effect of exceeding in temperature on Photovoltaic (PV) cells remains one of the major disadvantages of this technology. In order to improve the power utilization of the PV panel, it is necessary to maintain cell temperature as low as possible. The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental study of a photovoltaic panel with and without Phase Change Material (PCM) heat sink and investigate the possibility of performance improvement in terms of power produced and the energy conversion efficiency. The experimental setup consists of two PV solar panel, one coated with a special type of conductive phase change material and the other being a conventional panel without the PCM. Both the panels are connected independently to a data logger from which record of the temperature for each solar panel has been obtained. Further, this recorded temperature of both panels is analyzed and compared with each other. The performed experimental result shows that output cell power is increased due use of the PCM over the traditional conventionally available panel without PCM. This can significantly increase the system efficiency of the panel and shows that method a, with cooling system improve the performance of a photovoltaic panel.

Keywords: Solar, PCM, Performance, Photovoltaic cell, Heat sink

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Nikhil Gomkhale, Bharti Verma, Kavikant Mahapatra. Experimental Investigation on the Performance of Photovoltaic Panel with and Without Phase Change Material Heat Sink. Journal of Thermal Engineering and Applications. 2020; 7(2): 15–23p.



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Solar, PCM, Performance, Photovoltaic cell, Heat sink

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37591/jotea.v7i2.4278

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