Modeling and simulation of Photovoltaic/Thermal hybrid system

Author

Bayoumi, A. ; Abdelaziz, M.A. ; Abdelhameed, Magdy M.

Author_Institution

Mechatron. Dept., British Univ. (BUE), Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

132

Abstract

In this paper an analytical model for a Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) hybrid system is presented. The simulation in this work is based on an analytical model in solving the equations and determining the Photovoltaic (PV) cells characteristics using both MATLAB and COMSOL Multiphysics. COMSOL is simulating the electromagnetic waves produced by the Sun through solving Maxwell´s equations in three dimensions. Beside that COMSOL is used in studying the material absorption capabilities and calculating the material absorption coefficient using its refractive index. In addition to the above a thermal analysis for the PV module and the piping water is presented where the input, output temperatures, rate of heat transfer, overall heat transfer coefficient and thermal efficiency are calculated. As a result, a significant enhancement in the total electrical efficiency is observed with acceptable increased in the output water temperature.

Keywords

Maxwell equations; heat transfer; hybrid power systems; photothermal conversion; solar cells; COMSOL Multiphysics; MATLAB; Maxwell equation; PV cells; PV module; PV/T hybrid system; Sun; analytical model; electromagnetic wave; heat transfer coefficient; material absorption capability; material absorption coefficient; photovoltaic cells; photovoltaic/thermal hybrid system; piping water; refractive index; thermal analysis; thermal efficiency; Absorption; Analytical models; Equations; Heat transfer; Mathematical model; Photonics; Water heating;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES), 2013 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0078-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCES.2013.6707187

Filename

6707187