Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Volume (161), No (1), Year (2017-3) , Pages (62-69)

Title : ( Experimental study of using both ZnO/ water nanofluid and phase change material (PCM) in photovoltaic thermal systems )

Authors: Mohammad Sardarabadi , Mohammad Passandideh-Fard , Mohammad Javad Maghrebi , Mohsen Ghazikhani ,

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Abstract

In this study, the effects of simultaneous use of a ZnO/water nanofluid and a phase change material (PCM) as coolant mediums for a photovoltaic (PV) fluid/nanofluid based collector system are investigated experimentally. By designing and fabricating two similar photovoltaic thermal systems, one with a PCM medium (PVT/PCM) and one without a PCM (PVT), the experiments are performed. The measured results for surface temperature, thermal and electrical efficiency of the systems are compared with each other and with those of a conventional photovoltaic module as a reference system based on a thermodynamic viewpoint. In addition, the results for a nanofluid as a working fluid is compared with those using pure deionized water. Results show that in the PCM/ nanofluid based collector system, the average electrical output is increased by more than 13% compared to that of the conventional PV module. Using a nanofluid, instead of deionized water, improved the average thermal output by nearly 5% for the PVT system; when the PCM was also employed (i.e., for the PVT/PCM system) the increase in the thermal efficiency was nearly 9% without any extra energy consumption. Based on the results of an exergy analysis, the simultaneous use of both a nanofluid and the PCM for the cooling system, increases the overall exergy efficiency of the system more than 23% compared to that of a conventional PV module.

Keywords

, Photovoltaic thermal system, Phase change material, Nanofluid, Electrical and thermal efficiency
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@article{paperid:1059731,
author = {Sardarabadi, Mohammad and Passandideh-Fard, Mohammad and Maghrebi, Mohammad Javad and Ghazikhani, Mohsen},
title = {Experimental study of using both ZnO/ water nanofluid and phase change material (PCM) in photovoltaic thermal systems},
journal = {Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells},
year = {2017},
volume = {161},
number = {1},
month = {March},
issn = {0927-0248},
pages = {62--69},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {Photovoltaic thermal system; Phase change material; Nanofluid; Electrical and thermal efficiency},
}

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%0 Journal Article
%T Experimental study of using both ZnO/ water nanofluid and phase change material (PCM) in photovoltaic thermal systems
%A Sardarabadi, Mohammad
%A Passandideh-Fard, Mohammad
%A Maghrebi, Mohammad Javad
%A Ghazikhani, Mohsen
%J Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
%@ 0927-0248
%D 2017

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