Performance analysis of photovoltaic module with reflector: Optimizing orientation with different tilt scenarios

Monika Agrawal, Priyank Chhajed and Amartya Chowdhury

Renewable Energy, 2022, vol. 186, issue C, 10-25

Abstract: For sites near the tropic of cancer, an efficient technique to artificially improve solar photovoltaic (PV) performance by integrating the commercial flat stainless-steel (SS) reflector is determined in this study. The present research work focuses on the structural importance of reflectors and proposes a novel method for extracting more power output with fewer efforts. The system's optimum tilt has been calculated for various reflector diameters (L_ratio = 1 to 6, W_ratio = 1 to 6). A 3-D model has been used for wavelength-based reflection analysis on an hourly basis. The length of the reflector should be limited by the interrow distance between PV strings, for which the system's optimal tilt must be determined. For the latitude range of 20°–30°N, the yearly optimal tilt of the PV module has been recorded in between 32° and 40° with reflector tilt 19°–13° for the same size reflector.

Keywords: Photovoltaic; Solar energy; Low concentration; Optimum tilt; Size optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.12.149

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