Phase change materials for limiting temperature rise in building integrated photovoltaics
By M. J. Huang, P. Eames, Brian Norton. 2006
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Abstract Elevated operating temperatures reduce the solar to electrical conversion efficiency of photovoltaic devices. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of phase change materials for thermal management of photovoltaic devices. Two particular phase change materials were used to moderate the temperature rise of photovoltaics. The thermal performance of different internal fin arrangements for improving bulk PCM thermal conductivity are presented. Using RT25 with internal fins, the temperature rise of the PV/PCM system can be reduced by more than 30 °C when compared with the datum of a single flat aluminium plate during phase change. Phase change materials are shown to be an effective means of limiting temperature rise in photovoltaic devices.
Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- Critical review of latent heat storage systems for free cooling in buildings (2018, positive): “PCMs are usually utilised in solar-PV applications as a passive temperature regulator [164-167].”
- Phase-change materials to improve solar panel's performance (2013, neutral): “They later included cooling fins in the tank to improve the PCM bulk thermal conductivity [18] [19].”
- Effects of passive cooling on performance of silicon photovoltaic cells (2011, neutral): “[11].”
- Characterization of phase change materials for thermal control of photovoltaics using Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Temperature History Method (2014, methodology): “Temperature distributions on the front surface and inside the PCM were measured and validated through a 2D as well as a 3D finite volume heat transfer model [10,11].”
- Energy storage and solidification of paraffin phase change material embedded with graphite nanofibers (2011, background): “Many previous studies on energy storage in phase change materials (PCMs) have focused on improving heat transfer during the melt phase [1–10].”