Experimental Study of Exergy Analysis on Flat Plate Solar Photovoltaic Thermal (PV/T) Hybrid System

Abstract:

The objective of present study is to conduct exergy analysis on flat plate solar photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) hybrid system. The solar insolation, current, voltage, inlet and outlet air temperature of the cooling duct, ambient air temperature, and solar panel surface temperature are the major parameters used to calculate the energy and exergy efficiency. An amended electrical efficiency is used to estimate the electrical output and performance of PV/T hybrid system. Further, an enriched equation for the exergy efficiency of a PV/T hybrid system has been used for exergy analysis. Finally, parametric studies have been carried out. An extensive energy and exergy analysis is carried out to calculate the electrical and thermal parameters. The experimental results are in good agreement with the earlier studies. In addition to that, the electrical efficiency, thermal efficiency, electrical thermal efficiency, overall energy efficiency and exergy efficiency of PV/T hybrid system is found to be about 9.78%, 24.22%, 27.17%, 44.84% and 11.23% respectively.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 787)
• Pages: 82-87
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.787.82
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: B. Srimanickam*, M.M. Vijayalakshmi, Elumalai Natarajan
• Keywords: Electrical Analysis, Exergy Analysis, Flat Plate PV/T Hybrid System, Thermal Analysis

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