DocumentCode :
1854073
Title :
Thermo-electrical modeling of light wavelength effects on photovoltaic cell performance
Author :
Aljoaba, Sharif Z. ; Cramer, Aaron M. ; Walcott, Bruce L.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
fYear :
2011
fDate :
19-24 June 2011
Abstract :
Solar energy has emerged as a renewable, clean, reliable, and free source of energy encapsulated in photovoltaic (PV) cells. Studying the factors and parameters that affect the performance of these cells is significantly helping researchers to understand, design, develop, and optimize them. It has been reported that PV cell performance is highly affected by operating temperature. PV module temperature is a function of the incident radiant power density, the output electrical power, the thermal properties of the semiconductor material of the module, and the ambient temperature. Only part of the incident solar spectrum is converted into electricity, while the rest is dissipated as heat. This heat significantly increases the module temperature. Several researchers introduced thermal models to predict the module temperature, while others combined thermal and electrical models to get more accurate results. The radiant power density (W/m2) is used in these models as input power to the PV module. Despite of the extensive research, researchers failed to find models in the literature that investigated the effects of each wavelength of the spectral irradiance (W/m2/nm) on the module temperature. In this work, an integrated thermo-electrical model is proposed to predict the temperature of the PV module. In this model, the individual spectral irradiances are considered as input power sources to the module. Since the power associated with each wavelength varies during the day due to the airmass, the instantaneous temperature of the module is predicted over the entire day for a specific location. The calculated instantaneous output power is compared with the module´s data sheet measurement and shows good agreement. Furthermore, research is planned to measure the module temperature experimentally, and these results are expected in the final version.
Keywords :
photovoltaic cells; solar cells; solar radiation; PV cell design; PV cell development; PV cell optimization; PV cell performance; PV module; PV module temperature; ambient temperature; clean energy; electrical models; incident radiant power density; incident solar spectrum; instantaneous output power; light wavelength effects; output electrical power; photovoltaic cell performance; radiant power density; reliable energy; renewable energy; semiconductor material; solar energy; spectral irradiance; thermal models; thermal properties; thermo-electrical model; thermo-electrical modeling; Atmospheric modeling; Cogeneration; Photovoltaic systems; Predictive models; Semiconductor device measurement; Temperature; Temperature measurement;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011 37th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
ISSN :
0160-8371
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9966-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2011.6185878
Filename :
6185878
Link To Document :
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