Recent advancements in PV cooling and efficiency enhancement integrating phase change materials based systems–A comprehensive review

HM Ali - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, researchers are fascinated to counter problem of PV-efficiency decline
arising from high operating temperatures, especially in hot climates. This article conducts a …

Review of cooling techniques used to enhance the efficiency of photovoltaic power systems

M Sharaf, MS Yousef, AS Huzayyin - Environmental science and pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Photovoltaic (PV) panels are one of the most important solar energy sources used to convert
the sun's radiation falling on them into electrical power directly. Many factors affect the …

Building integration of active solar energy systems: A review of geometrical and architectural characteristics

C Vassiliades, R Agathokleous, G Barone… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar building integration, differs from everyday active solar energy systems on a building
envelope, because the active system replaces building elements and are integrated into the …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways toward high-efficiency solar photovoltaic thermal management for electrical, thermal and combined generation applications: A critical review

RM Elavarasan, V Mudgal, L Selvamanohar… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) panels convert a portion of the incident solar radiation into electrical
energy and the remaining energy (> 70%) is mostly converted into thermal energy. This …

Phase change materials and nano-enhanced phase change materials for thermal energy storage in photovoltaic thermal systems: A futuristic approach and its …

RR Kumar, M Samykano, AK Pandey… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, photovoltaic thermal (PVT) systems have emerged as an imperative
research area due to the escalating demand for energy worldwide. Phase change materials …

A comprehensive review on a passive (phase change materials) and an active (thermoelectric cooler) battery thermal management system and their limitations

ARM Siddique, S Mahmud, B Van Heyst - Journal of Power Sources, 2018 - Elsevier
A battery thermal management system (BTMS) has become an essential part in battery-
driven electric vehicles (EVs) in order to remove the generated heat from the battery which …

Phase change materials integrated solar thermal energy systems: Global trends and current practices in experimental approaches

B Kalidasan, AK Pandey, S Shahabuddin… - Journal of Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar thermal systems (STSs) are gaining boom in the globalized market since last two
decades to combat the menace of global warming. Considerable research has been carried …

Yearly energy performance of a photovoltaic-phase change material (PV-PCM) system in hot climate

A Hasan, J Sarwar, H Alnoman, S Abdelbaqi - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
A photovoltaic-phase change material (PV-PCM) system is employed in extremely hot
environment of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to evaluate its energy saving performance …

Photovoltaic panel integrated with phase change materials (PV-PCM): technology overview and materials selection

T Ma, Z Li, J Zhao - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, the utilization of phase change materials (PCMs) in photovoltaic (PV)
module for thermal regulation has attracted wide attention in this field, as the hybrid PV-PCM …

New potential applications of phase change materials: A review

KAR Ismail, FAM Lino, PLO Machado, M Teggar… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Latent heat materials are widely investigated and successfully used in a variety of important
applications as in the building industry and thermal engineering systems. In this paper a …