Investigation of a Real-Time Dynamic Model for a PV Cooling System

Ahmad Manasrah, Mohammad Masoud, Yousef Jaradat and Piero Bevilacqua
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Ahmad Manasrah: Mechanical Engineering Department, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman 11733, Jordan
Mohammad Masoud: Electrical Engineering Department, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman 11733, Jordan
Yousef Jaradat: Electrical Engineering Department, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman 11733, Jordan
Piero Bevilacqua: Department of Mechanical, Energetic and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: The cooling of PV models is an important process that enhances the generated electricity from these models, especially in hot areas. In this work, a new, active cooling algorithm is proposed based on active fan cooling and an artificial neural network, which is named the artificial dynamic neural network Fan cooling algorithm (DNNFC). The proposed system attaches five fans to the back of a PV model. Subsequently, only two fans work at any given time to circulate the air under the PV model in order to cool it down. Five different patterns of working fans have been experimented with in this work. To select the optimal pattern for any given time, a back propagation neural network model was trained. The algorithm is a dynamic algorithm since it re-trains the model with new recorded surface temperatures over time. In this way, the model automatically adapts to any weather and environmental conditions. The model was trained with an indoor dataset and tested with an outdoor dataset. An accuracy of more than 97% has been recorded, with a mean square error of approximately 0.02.

Keywords: PV; cooling; neural network; dynamic algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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