Modeling and thermal analysis of cylindrical solar ThermoPhotoVoltaic system

Author

Maqsood, Ishtiaq ; Emziane, Mahieddine

Author_Institution

Masdar Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2010

fDate

18-22 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

879

Lastpage

883

Abstract

This paper focuses on the design and theoretical modeling of a Solar ThermoPhotoVoltaic (STPV) system. Different emitter design options are explored and finally an optimum design is presented with minimum TPV cell area requirement. Concentrated sunlight is used to heat up the Silicon Carbide (SiC) emitter. Effect of Sunlight concentration on emitter temperature is also investigated. GaSb cell is used in simulation and its external quantum efficiency (EQE) is modeled by 10^th degree polynomial equation. A complete thermal analysis is performed to evaluate the conditions for optimum system performance. Theoretical system efficiency is also calculated for the proposed STPV system.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium compounds; polynomials; silicon compounds; solar cells; sunlight; thermal analysis; thermophotovoltaic cells; wide band gap semiconductors; GaSb; SiC; TPV cell area requirement; cylindrical solar thermophotovoltaic system; emitter design; external quantum efficiency; optimum design; polynomial equation; silicon carbide emitter; sunlight concentration; thermal analysis; Heating; Emitter Design; STPV; Solar Energy; TPV; Thermal Analysis; Thermophotovoltaic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conference and Exhibition (EnergyCon), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Manama

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9378-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENERGYCON.2010.5771807

Filename

5771807