Heat retention of a photovoltaic/thermal collector with PCM

By Maria C. Browne, Brian Norton, S. McCormack. 2016

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Abstract A novel PV/T/PCM system that generates electricity, stores heat and pre-heats water was characterised under outdoor conditions in Dublin, Ireland. The system design combines a PV module with a thermal collector; in which heat is removed from a heat exchanger embedded in PCM through a thermosyphon flow. System performance was compared against (a) the same system without PCM, (b) the same system without heat exchanger or PCM, and (c) the PV module alone. It was shown that the temperature attained by the water was approximately 5.5 °C higher when compared to a PV/T system with no PCM. PCM are shown to be an effective means of storing heat for later heat removal in a PV/T system.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. S. Mat
2. Ali H. A. Al-Waeli
3. Kamaruzzaman Sopian
4. H. Kazem
5. M. Chaichan

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Ali H. A. Al-Waeli
2. M. Chaichan
3. H. Kazem
4. S. Mat
5. M. H. Ruslan
6. Kamaruzzaman Sopian
7. A. Ibrahim
8. Hafiz Muhammad Ali

Citations in the corpus

• Comparison of prediction methods of PV/T nanofluid and nano-PCM system using a measured dataset and artificial neural network (2018, background): “Recently, various studies have been conducted within the field of PCM/PV and PCM/PVT (Gaur et al., 2017; Browne et al., 2016; Hasan et al., 2010, 2014; Biwole et al., 2011; Kazanci et al., 2014; Qiu et al., 2015; Fiorentini et al., 2015; Stropnik and Stritih, 2016).”