The performance of a combined solar photovoltaic (PV) and thermoelectric generator (TEG) system
By Rasmus Bjørk, Kaspar Kirstein Nielsen. 2015
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Abstract The performance of a combined solar photovoltaic (PV) and thermoelectric generator (TEG) system is examined using an analytical model for four different types of commercial PVs and a commercial bismuth telluride TEG. The TEG is applied directly on the back of the PV, so that the two devices have the same temperature. The PVs considered are crystalline Si (c-Si), amorphous Si (a-Si), copper indium gallium (di) selenide (CIGS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) cells. The degradation of PV performance with temperature is shown to dominate the increase in power produced by the TEG, due to the low efficiency of the TEG. For c-Si, CIGS and CdTe PV cells the combined system produces a lower power and has a lower efficiency than the PV alone, whereas for an a-Si cell the total system performance may be slightly increased by the TEG.
Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- An experimental investigation of a hybrid photovoltaic/thermoelectric system with nanofluid application (2017, background): “Many experimental and numerical studies have been performed on photovoltaic–thermoelectric (PV/TE) hybrid systems in recent years (Bjørk and Nielsen, 2015; He et al., 2014; Rockendorf et al., 1999; Tayebi et al., 2014), some of which are briefly reviewed below.”
- Conceptual development of a novel photovoltaic-thermoelectric system and preliminary economic analysis (2016, background): “Bjørk and Nielsen analyzed the performance of a combined solar photovoltaic (PV) and thermoelectric generator (TEG) device [16].”
- Thermoelectric generators: A review of applications (2017, methodology): “[173] using an analytical model for four different types of commercial photovoltaic panelss and a commercial Bi2Te3 TEG.”