Photovoltaic-Thermal

Hybrid Cell/Module
PRESENTER: MARIAMA ALI GARBA

PROFESSOR: DR. BULENT YESILATA

Introduction
• Climate change and depleting convention energy with increasing
demand has created concerns all over the word
• Renewable energy sources provide a sustainable alternative,
• Solar energy is one of the abundant and promising available
renewable sources,
Solar photovoltaics system
Solar thermal system
• Hybrid Photovoltaic-thermal systems

Transformation of sunlight into electrical and thermal energy

Photovoltaic cell and thermal collectors
Working Principle of PV/T
systems
• Solar cell used the property of light to generate
electricity,
• After the absorption of sunlight: some part is used for
the generation of the electricity and the major part is
wasted heat
• Copper tubes are used to circulate a fluid behind the
panel , so that the heat is extracted from the panel and
this thermal energy is used for other purposes such as
water heating
• As result the overall performance of the PV/T system is
enhanced
Water types PV/T
systems
In this type, water is used as a medium for extracting heat
from the PV modules

• He et al. investigated the performance of the PVT system

using water as heat extraction mean.

• PV modules were mounted on absorber plate and water

tubes were attached beneath the plate.

• The daily thermal and electrical efficiencies was 40%

and 10% respectively,

• The primary energy saving efficiency was about 60-75%

 Air types PV/T
systems
• Air is used as a medium to extract heat from
the PV module.

• Hussain et al. studied the thermal efficiency

of hybrid PV/T collector cooled by air:

• They used aluminum honeycomb design as

heat exchanger beneath the PV module

• The thermal efficiency has enhanced from

27% to 87% at air mass flow rate of
0.11Kg/s, whereas the enhancement of
electrical efficiency was almost negligible
(0.1%)
 Investigation of performance of PCM based PVT system

••  Phase change materials known as PCMs are substances

which absorb or release large amounts of heat when they
go through a change in their physical state.

• Numerical and outdoor real time experimentation of

performance of PCM based PVT system was conducted
by Fayaz et al.

• They used aluminium material of thermal collector to

enhance heat transfer performance.

• The theorical and practical result of cell temperature

reduction were 12.6and 10.3 respectively.

• Electrical efficiency of PVT-PCM was 13,87%

Performance analysis for hybrid PV/T system using
Nanofluid ( MWCNT)
• Nano Particles improve the thermal properties specially thermal conductivity.
• Saber et al. conducted experimental outdoor tests on PVT system that utilizes
water-based Multi Walls Carbon Nano Tubes as a heat storage/heat absorption
agent.
• The best system efficiencies were obtained at 0.075% V of MWCNTs – water based
Nanofluid
• Temperature reduction of PV panel was 12 °C
• Overall system efficiency of 83.26% at maximum incident radiation
• an overall efficiency of 61.23% was recorded over daytime
 • Feasibility study of PCM based PVT system for
longer duration in Sunlight
• Using a single laminated PVT system to avoid
heat loss
• The long-term stability of nanofluids and further
Literature Gaps outdoor experiments need to be explored in the
future
• Further researches needed to be done on PVT/
nano-PCMs systems
• The effect of the types, sizes and shapes of
nanoparticles on PVT systems
 Investigation of Performance of PVT/PCM system using Al2O3-
water nanofluid

Higher Convective heat transfer than pure water

Approximately same pressure drop of as pure water

PV cell temperature of Al2O3-water nanofluid is small

High electrical energy

Research methodology

Experimental studies
Comparison of
Numerical analysis with variation of the
Literature review numerical and
using some software nanofluid
experimental results
concentration

Comparison with
other PVT/PCM Discussion Conclusion
systems