COOLING SYSTEM DESIGN FOR CPV PANEL

(CONCENTRATE PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL)

Under the guidance of

Mr. Rohini kumar B

Presented By
Kakada naveenkumar
M140527ME

CONTENTS

Introduction
Objective
Cooling system
Microchannels
Literature reveiw
References

Introduction

PV cells:
A photovoltaic cell is a specialized semiconductor
diode that converts visible light into direct current (DC).

Classification of PV cells:
1. Low Concentration PV (LCPV) - 1 to 40 suns
2. Medium Concentration PV (MCPV) - 40 to 300 suns
3. High Concentration PV (HCPV) 300 to 2000 suns.

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India's largest photovoltaic (PV) power plants :

1. Reliance Power Pokhran Solar PV Plant, Rajasthan, 40MW.
2. Adani-Bitta Solar Plant, Gujarat, 40MW.
3. Moser Baer - Patan, Gujarat, 30MW.
4. Azure Power - Sabarkantha, Gujarat, 10MW.
5. Green Infra Solar Energy Limited - Rajkot, Gujarat, 10
MW.

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PV conversion losses of a power plant as a yearly average
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

light reflection losses (3.1%)

low radiation and shadowing losses (3.2%)
DC board losses (1.2%)
DC/AC conversion losses (4%)
temperature losses (7.6%)

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The major fraction of losses is related to the temperature
increase of the silicon solar cells.
Proper cooling system is necessary to operate the system
under concentrated radiation.

OBJECTIVE
To design a cooling system for concentrate photovoltaic cells
inorder to obtain higher net output power of CPV cells and
prolong their life time.
Fabrication of PV panel and microchannels with required
dimensions.

COOLING SYSTEM
Methods of cooling system

Passive methods
Natural convective heatsinks
like heat pipes, fins...etc

Active methods
Jet impingement
Hybrid Jet impingement
Microchannels...etc

MICRO CHANNELS

Channels diameter lies in between 0.2-3mm.

High heat transfer rates.
Relatively low pressure drops.
Low fabrication costs.
Ease of fabrication

Literature review

1. Performance of a silicon photovoltaic module under

enhanced illumination and selectivefiltration of
incoming radiation with simultaneous cooling:
Subarna Maiti *, Kairavi Vyas, Pushpito K. Ghosh
. Absorption

of radiation with different types liquids .

. Temperature rise in pv module with time of day.

. maximum power produced in pv cell with the time of day.
. The steady state heat removal efficiency of the liquid
can be given as:
.The maximum power of the pv module can be calculated by
using relationship:

 Infrared absorption spectra of different organic and inorganic liquids

 Temperature profile versus time of day of at different conditions

 maximum power(Pmax) vs time of day for different conditions of

solar radiation

2. A comparative study on using single and multi header

microchannels in a hybrid PV cell cooling:
Masoud Rahimi , Masomeh Asadi, Nooshin Karami, Ebrahim Karimi

The PV cell has effective area of 26*13 cm^2 and series of noncircular microchannels with a hydraulic diameter of 0.667
considered.

The two different geometries of the microchannels are fabricated on

Plexiglas plates with a thickness of 10 mm using a computer
numerical control (CNC) machine to achieve high accuracy.
An ideal liquid should have good thermal conductivity, low
viscosity, long-term chemical and physical stability.
De-ionized water was used to remove heat from pv cell.

 By using experiment results various graphs plotted:

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Author

Title

Comments

Kaijun
Yang,
Chunche
g Zuo .

A novel multilayer manifold

microchannel
cooling system
for concentrating
photovoltaic cells

An effective multi-layer manifold

microchannel heat sink for the cooling of
CPV cells has been successfully fabricated.
By results obtained from experiment he
found that higher heat transfer coeffcient and
a lower surface.
The pressure drop of microchannels
is low.

Masoud
Rahimi ,
Ebrahim
Karimi,
Masome
h Asadi,
Peyvand
Valeh-eSheyda

Heat transfer
augmentation in
a hybrid
microchannel
solar cell

This paper considers experimental

investigations on a hybrid
microchannel solar cell, which is
designed as an
attractive technology for PV cooling
systems.
An excellent cooling performance
was found from experiments so that
the cell maximum
power was marginally improved

Jerome
Barrau ,
Joan
Rosell,
Daniel
Chemisa
na,
Lounes
Tadrist ,
M. Iban.

Effect of a hybrid
jet
impingement/mic
ro-channel
cooling device on
the performance
of densely packed
PV cells under
high
concentration

A new hybrid jet

impingement/micro-channel
cooling scheme have been
described.

Kyu
Hyung
Do, Tae
Hoon
Kim,
Yong-Shik
Han,
Byung-Il
Choi,
MyungBae Kim

General
correlation of a
natural
convective
heat sink with
plate-fins
for high
concentrating
photovoltaic
module cooling

In this paper, they proposed some

correlations. it is shown that the
proposed correlation predicts well
the effects of inclination angle
and fin spacing on the thermal
performance of the natural
convective heat sink with platefins.

This characteristic involves

that,
the average heat exchange
coefficient of micro-channel
cooling schemes is slightly
higher than the one of the
hybrid heat sink

E.Radzie
mska
E.Klugma
nn

Thermally affected
parameters of the
currentvoltage
characteristics of
silicon photocell

The influence of temperature on the

parameters of silicon photocells is
presented.
The temperature increase of the cell
surfaces within the range from 22 to
70 degree centigrade.
It is shown that the product IscUoc
degrades about 0.8% per 1 K
temperature increase.

Dr.
B.S.Gawali
D.A.Kambl
e

Analysis of
Rectangular
Microchannel
under Forced
convection Heat
Transfer
condition

From analysis ,it is observed that as

hydraulic diameter of microchannel
is major concept of microchannel heat
transfer which is dependent on flow rate
of water in microchannel.

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