Technical feasibility study of passive and active cooling for concentrator PV in harsh environment

A Aldossary, S Mahmoud, R Al-Dadah - Applied thermal engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Concentrator PV (CPV) has the potential to replace the expensive PV material with cheaper
optical elements which also enhance the overall electrical output. The triple junction III-V …

Cooling design and evaluation for photovoltaic cells within constrained space in a CPV/CSP hybrid solar system

S Wang, J Shi, HH Chen, SR Schafer, M Munir… - Applied Thermal …, 2017 - Elsevier
A hybrid solar energy system has been designed by combining the advantages of
concentrated solar power (CSP) technology and high performance concentrated …

Estimation of the performance limits of a concentrator solar cell coupled with a micro heat sink based on a finite element simulation

M Alzahrani, H Baig, K Shanks, T Mallick - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technology makes use of cheap optical elements to
amplify the irradiance and focus it on small-sized solar cells enabling the extraction of higher …

Performance study of water-cooled multiple-channel heat sinks in the application of ultra-high concentrator photovoltaic system

WC Tan, KK Chong, MH Tan - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
For achieving cost effectiveness in solar power generation, ultra-high concentrator
photovoltaic (UHCPV) system operating at 1800 suns is highly recommended in order to …

Air cooling low concentrated photovoltaic/thermal (LCPV/T) solar collector to approach uniform temperature distribution on the PV plate

Y Amanlou, TT Hashjin, B Ghobadian… - Applied Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, to prevent local excessive temperature on a photovoltaic module, uniformity of
air flow as cooling fluid in a low concentrated photovoltaic/thermal (LCPV/T) collector has …

Performance comparative study on passively cooled concentrated photovoltaic (PV) using adsorption/desorption and heat sink cooling methods: Experimental …

MH Hamed, H Hassan, S Ookawara, SA Nada - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Concentrated photovoltaic (PV) is a suitable solution for reducing the cost of a PV system by
focusing solar radiation on the panel with cheap collectors. However, increasing the …

Design and dynamic performance of a concentrated photovoltaic system with vapor chambers cooling

X Han, Y Lv - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the challenges faced by concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system is the thermal
management of the CPV module because it can seriously degrade and even shorten the …

Experimental investigation of a V-trough PV concentrator integrated with a buried water heat exchanger cooling system

NAS Elminshawy, M El-Ghandour, Y Elhenawy… - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Concentrating photovoltaic CPV system such as V-trough is utilized to decrease the area
covered by expensive solar cell by replacing the equipment with cheap optics. As a result …

[HTML][HTML] Passive cooling of highly-concentrator triple-junction solar cell using a straight-finned heat sink: An experimental investigation

HA Refaey, MA Abdelrahman, MA Alharthi… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, an experimental setup in Saudi Arabia's hot weather conditions is used to assess
the electrical and thermal performance of concentrator photovoltaic triple junction (CPV TJ) …

Energy and exergy analyses of new cooling schemes based on a serpentine configuration for a high concentrator photovoltaic system

A Ahmed, K Shanks, S Sundaram, T Mallick - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
High concentrator photovoltaic is expected to play an increasingly important role in electrical
energy production. Controlling multijunction solar cell temperature within the recommended …