MATLAB Simulation of Photovoltaic and Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems Performance

The efficiency of the photovoltaic reduces when the photovoltaic cell temperature increased due to solar irradiance. One solution is come up with the cooling system photovoltaic system. This combination is forming the photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) system. Not only will it generate electricity also hea...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2018-03, Vol.341 (1), p.12019
Main Authors: Nasir, Farah H. M., Husaini, Yusnira
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cooling systems
Efficiency
Equivalent circuits
Inlet temperature
Irradiance
Mass flow rate
Matlab
Photovoltaic cells
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Summary:The efficiency of the photovoltaic reduces when the photovoltaic cell temperature increased due to solar irradiance. One solution is come up with the cooling system photovoltaic system. This combination is forming the photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) system. Not only will it generate electricity also heat at the same time. The aim of this research is to focus on the modeling and simulation of photovoltaic (PV) and photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) electrical performance by using single-diode equivalent circuit model. Both PV and PV/T models are developed in Matlab/Simulink. By providing the cooling system in PV/T, the efficiency of the system can be increased by decreasing the PV cell temperature. The maximum thermal, electrical and total efficiency values of PV/T in the present research are 35.18%, 15.56% and 50.74% at solar irradiance of 400 W/m2, mass flow rate of 0.05kgs-1 and inlet temperature of 25 °C respectively has been obtained. The photovoltaic-thermal shows that the higher efficiency performance compared to the photovoltaic system.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/341/1/012019