| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 162, 2017
International Conference on Applied Photonics and Electronics 2017 (InCAPE2017)
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| Article Number | 01077 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716201077 | |
| Published online | 22 November 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716201077
Effect of Thermoelectric Cooling (TEC) module and the water flow heatsink on Photovoltaic (PV) panel performance
Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy (CERE), School of Electrical System Engineering, University Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
* Corresponding author: amelia_razak87@yahoo.com
Published online: 22 November 2017
Photovoltaic (PV) panel suffers in low conversion efficiency of the output performance affected by the elevated operating temperature of the PV panel. It is important to keep the PV panel to operate at low temperature. To address this issue, this paper proposes the cooling system using thermoelectric cooling (TEC) and water block heatsink for enhancing the PV panel output performance. These both types cooling system were designed located on the back side of the PV panel to cool down the operating temperature of the PV panel. To evaluate the function for the existing cooling systems, the experiment was subsequently performed for PV panel without and with different design of the cooling system in outdoor weather conditions. By comparing the experimental results, it is concluded that by the hybrid cooling system which combining TEC module and the water block heatsink could improve the output performance of the PV panel. By the reduction temperature of the PV panel by 16.04 %, the average output power of the PV panel has been boosted up from 8.59 W to 9.03 W. In short, the output power of the PV panel was enhanced by the reduction of the operating temperature of the PV panel.
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