TY - JOUR
T1 - Increased photovoltaic performance through temperature regulation by phase change materials
T2 - Materials comparison in different climates
AU - Hasan, A.
AU - McCormack, S. J.
AU - Huang, M. J.
AU - Sarwar, J.
AU - Norton, B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the Higher Education Authority through Strand 3 funding, Science Foundation Ireland through their Research Frontiers Program and the Research Support Unit at Dublin Institute of Technology. They would also like to acknowledge COST Action TU0802: Next generation cost effective phase change materials for increased energy efficiency in renewable energy systems in buildings for providing an invaluable platform to discuss and develop this work. Thanks also to Professor Javed L. Piracha and Professor Dr. Nadeem A. Mufti (University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan) for their inputs and cooperation for the outdoor experiments in Pakistan. Thanks to Kevin O’ Farrell, Nari Shaqiri, Juanka Carlos and Daniel Martinez for their inputs in the fabrication, installation and measurement procedure in Ireland.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - A photovoltaic-phase change material (PV-PCM) system has been developed to reduce photovoltaic (PV) temperature dependent power loss. The system has been evaluated outdoors with two phase change materials (PCMs); a salt hydrate, CaCl2{dot operator}6H2O and a eutectic mixture of fatty acids, capric acid-palmitic acid in two different climates of Dublin, Ireland (53.33N, 6.25W) and Vehari, Pakistan (30.03N, 72.25E). Both the integrated PCMs maintained lower PV panel temperature than the reference PV panel. Salt hydrate CaCl2{dot operator}6H2O maintained lower PV temperature than capric-palmitic acid at both the tested sites. The lower PV temperatures effected by the use of the PCMs prevented the associated PV power loss and increased PV conversion efficiencies. Both the PCMs attained higher temperature drop in warm and stable weather conditions of Vehari than the cooler and variant weather conditions of Dublin.
AB - A photovoltaic-phase change material (PV-PCM) system has been developed to reduce photovoltaic (PV) temperature dependent power loss. The system has been evaluated outdoors with two phase change materials (PCMs); a salt hydrate, CaCl2{dot operator}6H2O and a eutectic mixture of fatty acids, capric acid-palmitic acid in two different climates of Dublin, Ireland (53.33N, 6.25W) and Vehari, Pakistan (30.03N, 72.25E). Both the integrated PCMs maintained lower PV panel temperature than the reference PV panel. Salt hydrate CaCl2{dot operator}6H2O maintained lower PV temperature than capric-palmitic acid at both the tested sites. The lower PV temperatures effected by the use of the PCMs prevented the associated PV power loss and increased PV conversion efficiencies. Both the PCMs attained higher temperature drop in warm and stable weather conditions of Vehari than the cooler and variant weather conditions of Dublin.
KW - Performance increase
KW - Phase change materials
KW - Photovoltaics
KW - Temperature regulation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.solener.2015.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.solener.2015.02.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84924799338
SN - 0038-092X
VL - 115
SP - 264
EP - 276
JO - Solar Energy
JF - Solar Energy
ER -