Experimental investigation of the effects of silica/water nanofluid on PV/T (photovoltaic thermal units)

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Photovoltaic Panels: A Review of the Cooling Techniques (2016, methodology): “[40] used copper tubing to cool down a 40W polycrystalline PV module from back side.”
Concentration photovoltaic–thermal energy co-generation system using nanofluids for cooling and heating (2014, background): “For example, flat plate collectors have been developed to accomplish this goal [4,8,25,28,29].”
Experimental study of using both ZnO/ water nanofluid and phase change material (PCM) in photovoltaic thermal systems (2017, methodology): “Thus, the increase of the cell temperature results in a reduction of the system electrical output power and vice versa (the details of the electrical efficiency calculation can be seen elsewhere [1]).”
Experimental investigation of a PVT system performance using nano ferrofluids (2015, background): “[14] studied experimentally the effects of using silica-water nanofluid as a coolant on the thermal and electrical efficiencies of a PVT system.”
Experimental and numerical study of metal-oxides/water nanofluids as coolant in photovoltaic thermal systems (PVT) (2016, unknown): “The electrical efficiency can be calculated as the net output electrical power to the input energy of the sun [9]:”