Experimental Investigation of Solar Panel Cooling by a Novel Micro Heat Pipe Array
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. in Energy and Power Engineering
- Vol. 02 (03), 171-174
- https://doi.org/10.4236/epe.2010.23025
Abstract
A novel micro heat pipe array was used in solar panel cooling. Both of air-cooling and water-cooling conditions under nature convection condition were investigated in this paper. Compared with the ordinary solar panel, the maximum difference of the photoelectric conversion efficiency is 2.6%, the temperature reduces maximally by 4.7℃, the output power increases maximally by 8.4% for the solar panel with heat pipe using air-cooling, when the daily radiation value is 26.3 MJ. Compared with the solar panel with heat pipe using air-cooling, the maximum difference of the photoelectric conversion efficiency is 3%, the temperature reduces maximally by 8℃, the output power increases maximally by 13.9% for the solar panel with heat pipe using water-cooling, when the daily radiation value is 21.9 MJ.Keywords
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