 Experimental study of a concentrated PV/T system using linear Fresnel lensFariborz Karimi, Hongtao Xu, Zhiyun Wang, Jian Chen and Mo Yang Energy, 2017, vol. 123, issue C, 402-412 Abstract: Solar energy is an alternative source of fossil fuel. Photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar systems emerged as an important research area as a result of the rising global concern on the utilization of energy resources such as oil and gas. PV/T solar systems utilize a photovoltaic system to generate electricity and a thermal collector system for hot water generation. In this study, an experimental investigation of a concentrated PV/T system was conducted in December 2015. This study evaluates the performance of pure thermal and integrated PV/T solar system under a concentrated linear Fresnel lens (5.85 Sun). The characteristic of PV module indicates that the 10.9% electrical efficiency of PV cells under normal condition decreases to 7.63% as a result of solar concentration. However, the output power of PV module increased by 28%. The total efficiency of pure thermal and PV/T systems under linear solar concentration reach 46.6% and 53% respectively. These values indicate good thermal and electrical performance under the metrological weather conditions of Shanghai, China. Keywords: Solar energy; Linear Fresnel lens; PV/T system (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:123:y:2017:i:c:p:402-412 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.02.028 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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