Energy and exergy performance evaluation of a typical solar photovoltaic module
2013
This paper presents the energy and exergy performance evaluation of
heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar photovoltaic (SPV)
module for a particular day of different months of the year of a typical
climatic zone of north India. The energy, exergy and power conversion
efficiencies have been calculated and plotted against time based on hourly
insolation. The variation in all the efficiencies has been observed with
respect to variation in solar radiation and wind speed and found that all
the efficiencies are higher in morning and evening time as compared to noon
time which is due to the variation in temperature of module throughout the
day. Performance of SPV module has been found to be the best in the month of
February i.e. all the three efficiencies have been found to be the highest
among all the months analysed and presented in the study for the month of
February. The energy efficiency is found to be always higher than that power
conversion and exergy efficiencies. However, exergy efficiency in some
months like February, May, June, September, October and December has been
found to be higher than that of power conversion efficiency, reverse is
found in rest of the months.
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