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Experimental Study on Performance Enhancement of a Photovoltaic Module Incorporated with CPU Heat Pipe—A 5E Analysis

As is already known, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is a widely accepted technology for power generation worldwide. However, it is scientifically proven that its power output decreases with an increase in the temperature of the PV module. Such an important issue is controlled by adopting a numbe...

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Autores principales: Praveenkumar, Seepana, Gulakhmadov, Aminjon, Agyekum, Ephraim Bonah, T. Alwan, Naseer, Velkin, Vladimir Ivanovich, Sharipov, Parviz, Safaraliev, Murodbek, Chen, Xi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9460871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36080830
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22176367
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author Praveenkumar, Seepana
Gulakhmadov, Aminjon
Agyekum, Ephraim Bonah
T. Alwan, Naseer
Velkin, Vladimir Ivanovich
Sharipov, Parviz
Safaraliev, Murodbek
Chen, Xi
author_facet Praveenkumar, Seepana
Gulakhmadov, Aminjon
Agyekum, Ephraim Bonah
T. Alwan, Naseer
Velkin, Vladimir Ivanovich
Sharipov, Parviz
Safaraliev, Murodbek
Chen, Xi
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description As is already known, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is a widely accepted technology for power generation worldwide. However, it is scientifically proven that its power output decreases with an increase in the temperature of the PV module. Such an important issue is controlled by adopting a number of cooling mechanisms for the PV module. The present experimental study assesses the effect of a fanless CPU heat pipe on the performance of a PV module. The experiment was conducted in June in real weather conditions in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. The comparative analysis of two PV panels (i.e., cooled, and uncooled) based on the electrical energy, exergy performance, economic, embodied energy and energy payback (5E) for the two systems is presented and discussed. The key results from the study are that the average temperature reduction from the cooling process is 6.72 °C. The average power for the cooled panel is 11.39 W against 9.73 W for the uncooled PV panel; this represents an increase of 1.66 W for the cooled module. Moreover, the average improvements in the electrical efficiency, and embodied energy recorded for a cooled PV panel 2.98%, and 438.52 kWh, respectively. Furthermore, the calculations of the levelized cost of energy (LCE) for the cooled PV panel indicate that it can range from 0.277–0.964 USD/kWh, while that for the uncooled PV panel also ranges from 0.205–0.698 USD/kWh based on the number of days of operation of the plant.
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spelling pubmed-94608712022-09-10 Experimental Study on Performance Enhancement of a Photovoltaic Module Incorporated with CPU Heat Pipe—A 5E Analysis Praveenkumar, Seepana Gulakhmadov, Aminjon Agyekum, Ephraim Bonah T. Alwan, Naseer Velkin, Vladimir Ivanovich Sharipov, Parviz Safaraliev, Murodbek Chen, Xi Sensors (Basel) Article As is already known, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is a widely accepted technology for power generation worldwide. However, it is scientifically proven that its power output decreases with an increase in the temperature of the PV module. Such an important issue is controlled by adopting a number of cooling mechanisms for the PV module. The present experimental study assesses the effect of a fanless CPU heat pipe on the performance of a PV module. The experiment was conducted in June in real weather conditions in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. The comparative analysis of two PV panels (i.e., cooled, and uncooled) based on the electrical energy, exergy performance, economic, embodied energy and energy payback (5E) for the two systems is presented and discussed. The key results from the study are that the average temperature reduction from the cooling process is 6.72 °C. The average power for the cooled panel is 11.39 W against 9.73 W for the uncooled PV panel; this represents an increase of 1.66 W for the cooled module. Moreover, the average improvements in the electrical efficiency, and embodied energy recorded for a cooled PV panel 2.98%, and 438.52 kWh, respectively. Furthermore, the calculations of the levelized cost of energy (LCE) for the cooled PV panel indicate that it can range from 0.277–0.964 USD/kWh, while that for the uncooled PV panel also ranges from 0.205–0.698 USD/kWh based on the number of days of operation of the plant. MDPI 2022-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9460871/ /pubmed/36080830 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22176367 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Safaraliev, Murodbek
Chen, Xi
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22176367
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