Enhancement Of Reliability And Efficiency Of Solar Panel Using Cooling Methods

Authors

  • Vinoth Balasubramanian

Abstract

For Sustainable development of any country, electricity is the basic need for current civilization. Without hampering the environment, generation of electricity is very essential. Solar energy is completely natural, it is considered as clean energy source. In this work, an automatic system for solar panel cooling is proposed on the use of a commercial sensor with RISC based micro-controller. An electro-mechanism was designed and developed to enhance solar panel life time under different sunlight peak hours to evaluate it’s voltage efficiency. The impact on the overall performance of solar PV panel caused by different temperatures at sunlight peak hours are analyzed. The developed cooling system is innovative in relation to the unusual cooling system already existing in commercial units. A mini prototype model was designed and experimented, field results have proven good enhancement. With this automatic cooling technique, voltage efficiency is improved from 3% to 5%.

Published

2020-11-01

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Section

Articles