Simple thermal-electrical model of photovoltaic panels with cooler-integrated sun tracker
Vol. 131 No. 1D (2022), Original Article
Vol. 131 No. 1D (2022)

Simple thermal-electrical model of photovoltaic panels with cooler-integrated sun tracker

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https://doi.org/10.26459/hueunijns.v131i1D.6763
Published 2022-12-31
Ngo Xuan Cuong*
School of Engineering and Technology, Hue University, 1 Dien Bien Phu St., Hue, Vietnam
Huynh Thi Thuy Linh
School of Engineering and Technology, Hue University, 1 Dien Bien Phu St., Hue, Vietnam
Nguyen Dinh Hoa Cuong
School of Engineering and Technology, Hue University, 1 Dien Bien Phu St., Hue, Vietnam
Nguyen Duy Thuan
School of Engineering and Technology, Hue University, 1 Dien Bien Phu St., Hue, Vietnam
Le Vinh Thang
Department of automatic control system and control, National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), ld. 1, Shokin Square, Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia
Nguyen Thi Hong
Hue Industrial College, 70 Nguyen Hue St., Hue, Vietnam
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Keywords

Mô hình nhiệt điện
bộ định hướng mặt trời
quang điện
hệ thống làm mát
hiệu suất Thermal–electrical model
sun tracker
photovoltaic
cooling system
efficiency

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Ngo XC, Huynh TTL, Nguyen DHC, Nguyen DT, Le VT, Nguyen TH. Simple thermal-electrical model of photovoltaic panels with cooler-integrated sun tracker. hueuni-jns [Internet]. 2022Dec.31 [cited 2024Apr.26];131(1D):23-36. Available from: https://jos.hueuni.edu.vn/index.php/hujos-ns/article/view/6763
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Abstract

This paper presents a simple thermal-electrical model of a photovoltaic panel with a cooler-integrated sun tracker. Based on the model and obtained weather data, we analyzed the improved overall efficiency in a year as well as the performance in each typical weather case for photovoltaic panels with fixed-tilt systems with a tilt angle equal to latitude, fixed-tilt systems with cooler, a single-axis sun tracker, and a cooler-integrated single-axis sun tracker. The results show that on a sunny summer day with few clouds, the performance of the photovoltaic panels with the proposed system improved and reached 32.76% compared with the fixed-tilt systems. On a sunny day with clouds in the wet, rainy season, because of the low air temperature and the high wind speed, the photovoltaic panel temperature was lower than the cooler’s initial set temperature; the performance of the photovoltaic panel with the proposed system improved by 12.55% compared with the fixed-tilt system. Simulation results show that, over one year, the overall efficiency of the proposed system markedly improved by 16.35, 13.03, and 3.68% compared with the photovoltaic panel with the fixed-tilt system, the cooler, and the single-axis sun tracker, respectively. The simulation results can serve as a premise for future experimental models.

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