Year round performance and parametric study of thin film solar photovoltaic system

Author

Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar ; Tyagi, Vineet V. ; Al Selvaraj, Jeyraj ; Tyagi, S.K.

Author_Institution

Sardar Swaran Singh Nat. Inst. of Renewable Energy, Kapurthala, India

fYear

2013

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

186

Abstract

Present communication deals with the year round performance evaluation of thin film solar photovoltaic module based on energetic and exergetic approaches for a typical climatic zone in north India. Three different efficiencies including energy, power conversion and exergy have been evaluated and plotted against time for hourly solar radiation. The exergy and power conversion efficiencies for the month of July were the highest among all the months analyzed and presented in the study. The exergy efficiency for the month of January is found to be the lowest however, the energy efficiency is found to be the lowest in the month of December. The energy efficiency is always higher than that of power conversion and exergy efficiencies for all the cases.

Keywords

exergy; photovoltaic power systems; power conversion; solar cells; solar radiation; thin films; climatic zone; energetic approach; exergetic approach; north India; power conversion; solar photovoltaic module; solar radiation; thin film; Conferences; Energy efficiency; Photovoltaic systems; Power conversion; Solar radiation; Temperature measurement; Wind speed; Energy; exergy; open circuit voltage; short circuit current; solar radiation; wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Clean Energy and Technology (CEAT), 2013 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Lankgkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3237-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEAT.2013.6775622

Filename

6775622