2024-03-29T13:38:32Zhttps://riubu.ubu.es/oai/requestoai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/54912021-11-02T12:07:19Zcom_10259_4393com_10259_5086com_10259_2604col_10259_4394
Experimental analysis of a novel PV/T panel with PCM and heat pipes
González Peña, David
Alonso de Miguel, Iván
Diez Mediavilla, Montserrat
Alonso Tristán, Cristina
hybrid solar system
PV/T
PCM
heat pipe
Ingeniería eléctrica
Electric engineering
A new design for the use of photovoltaic and thermal (PV/T) technology with thermal storage is reported in this work. In the new design, a phase change material (PCM) tank is added to the backside of the photovoltaic panel. The advantages of this design are the storage of thermal energy and the efficiency improvement of the photovoltaic (PV) panel as a result of the temperature control of the PV cell during the phase change process. In addition, a perimeter with a black surface surrounds the PV panel to increase the absorption of thermal energy. The thermal energy is then transferred to the backside of the PCM tank by heat pipes. One prototype with lauric acid as PCM was tested under two different operating configurations and resulted in an overall daily efficiency of 50% coulding be improve by controlling the PCM temperature during the day.
Regional Government of Castilla y León, Spain (Ref. BU034U16) and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities under the I+D+i state program “Challenges Research Projects” (Ref. RTI2018-098900-B-I00)
2020-09-29T08:40:24Z
2020-09-29T08:40:24Z
2020-02
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5491
10.3390/su12051710
2071-1050
eng
Sustainability. 2020, V. 12, n. 5, 1710
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12051710
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/JCyL/BU034U16
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/RTI2018-098900-B-I00
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