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Universal Journal of Mechanical Engineering Vol. 4(3), pp. 63 - 68
DOI: 10.13189/ujme.2016.040302
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Characteristic and Efficiency Analysis of Storage-type Solar PV/Thermal Hybrid System
Feng-Chin Tsai 1,*, Xin-Zhi Huang 2
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tungnan University, Taiwan
2 Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Tungnan University, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
Storage-type solar PV/thermal hybrid system added a water tank below the PV panel directly is to cool the surface of PV chip and reuse the waste heat. Solar test equipment was set up to adjust irradiation amount of halogen lamp to light on solar PV board and measure the I-V curves of the PV panel simultaneously. Surface temperature of PV panel and water temperature of water tank are measured respectively by infrared thermal imager and thermocouples. By altering the irradiation of 600~900W/m2 at a 30° inclination angle of PV panel, the experience data of storage-type solar PV/thermal hybrid system can be got, total efficiency transformed by photovoltaic efficiency and hot water efficiency of PV/thermal hybrid system can be analyzed. The results show that total efficiency of storage-type solar PV/thermal hybrid system is more excellent as compared to the pure photovoltaic efficiency. The hot water efficiency of PV/thermal hybrid system from recycling waste heat gets 38~40%. If the electric/heat energy conversion efficiency is about 0.38, total efficiency transformed obtains more efficiency about 14~15% from the recycling the waste heat. The total efficiency of storage-type solar PV/thermal hybrid system is almost 4 times than photovoltaic efficiency in experimental surrounding.
KEYWORDS
PV/thermal, Storage-type, Total Efficiency
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Feng-Chin Tsai , Xin-Zhi Huang , "Characteristic and Efficiency Analysis of Storage-type Solar PV/Thermal Hybrid System," Universal Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 63 - 68, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/ujme.2016.040302.
(b). APA Format:
Feng-Chin Tsai , Xin-Zhi Huang (2016). Characteristic and Efficiency Analysis of Storage-type Solar PV/Thermal Hybrid System. Universal Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 4(3), 63 - 68. DOI: 10.13189/ujme.2016.040302.