Low-concentrating water-cooled PV-thermal hybrid systems for high latitudes

Author

Brogren, Maria ; Karlsson, Bjrön

Author_Institution

Dept of Mater. Sci., Uppsala Univ., Sweden

fYear

2002

fDate

19-24 May 2002

Firstpage

1733

Lastpage

1736

Abstract

This paper treats the design and evaluation of low-concentrating, water-cooled photovoltaic-thermal hybrid systems with stationary parabolic reflectors for groundbased applications or facade-integration of photovoltaics at high latitudes. The use of photovoltaic-thermal hybrid string modules in combination with cheap aluminum reflectors has a potential to significantly increase power production from a given solar cell area and reduce the cost of photovoltaic electricity.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; cooling; elemental semiconductors; mirrors; silicon; solar absorber-convertors; solar cell arrays; Si; aluminum reflectors; copper fin thermal absorber; cost reduction; facade-integration; groundbased applications; high latitudes; mono-crystalline silicon cells; photovoltaic electricity; photovoltaic-thermal hybrid string modules; photovoltaic-thermal hybrid systems; power production increase; solar cell area; stationary parabolic reflectors; water-cooled PV-thermal hybrid systems; Aluminum; Cooling; Costs; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Production; Resistance heating; Silicon; Solar power generation; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE

ISSN

1060-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7471-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190956

Filename

1190956