Artikel

Parallel experimental study of a novel super-thin thermal absorber based photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) system against conventional photovoltaic (PV) system

Photovoltaic (PV) semiconductor degrades in performance due to temperature rise. A super thin-conductive thermal absorber is therefore developed to regulate the PV working temperature by retrofitting the existing PV panel into the photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) panel. This article presented the parallel comparative investigation of the two different systems through both laboratory and field experiments. The laboratory evaluation consisted of one PV panel and one PV/T panel respectively while the overall field system involved 15 stand-alone PV panels and 15 retrofitted PV/T panels. The laboratory testing results demonstrated the PV/T panel could achieve the electrical efficiency of about 16.8% (relatively 5% improvement comparing with the stand-alone PV panel), and yield an extra amount of heat with thermal efficiency of nearly 65%. The field testing results indicated that the hybrid PV/T panel could enhance the electrical return of PV panels by nearly 3.5%, and increase the overall energy output by nearly 324.3%. Further opportunities and challenges were then discussed from aspects of different PV/T stakeholders to accelerate the development. It is expected that such technology could become a significant solution to yield more electricity, offset heating load freely and reduce carbon footprint in contemporary energy environment.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Energy Reports ; ISSN: 2352-4847 ; Volume: 1 ; Year: 2015 ; Pages: 30-35 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Xu, Peng
Zhang, Xingxing
Shen, Jingchun
Zhao, Xudong
He, Wei
Li, Deying
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Elsevier
(wo)
Amsterdam
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1016/j.egyr.2014.11.002
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Xu, Peng
  • Zhang, Xingxing
  • Shen, Jingchun
  • Zhao, Xudong
  • He, Wei
  • Li, Deying
  • Elsevier

Entstanden

  • 2015

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