Air-cooling System for a Large Size Photovoltaic Panel

Idir Kecili, Sonia Ait Saada, Rezki Nebbali

2018

Abstract

Under extreme climatic conditions, the temperature of a photovoltaic solar panel can increase considerably. This can alter its performance and contribute to its degradation. To overcome these inconveniences, we propose to cool this PV panel by the ambient air. To do this, we use fan which blows air on the underside of the PV panel. For a large size PV panel (commercialized panel) two fans are needed to ensure this cooling. The judicious arrangement of these two fans makes it possible to reduce the temperature gradient on the PV panel. At first approach, four cases of positions of the fans were considered. By determining the optimum position, the influence of the ambient air emperature (T air = 25 and 50 ° C) and the intensity of the radiation (R G = 400 W/m² and 1000 W/m²) was studied by varying the air mass flow rate from 200 to 400g/s. The results obtained show that the average temperature of the silicon varies slightly with the mass flow of air while it is sensitive to the air temperature and the solar radiation. Moreover, the maximum temperature gradient on the PV panel is only influenced by solar radiation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kecili I., Ait Saada S. and Nebbali R. (2018). Air-cooling System for a Large Size Photovoltaic Panel.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE, ISBN 978-989-758-431-2, pages 359-364. DOI: 10.5220/0009773403590364

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iccsre18,
author={Idir Kecili and Sonia Ait Saada and Rezki Nebbali},
title={Air-cooling System for a Large Size Photovoltaic Panel},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE,},
year={2018},
pages={359-364},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009773403590364},
isbn={978-989-758-431-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Computer Science and Renewable Energies - Volume 1: ICCSRE,
TI - Air-cooling System for a Large Size Photovoltaic Panel
SN - 978-989-758-431-2
AU - Kecili I.
AU - Ait Saada S.
AU - Nebbali R.
PY - 2018
SP - 359
EP - 364
DO - 10.5220/0009773403590364