Performance Improvement of Photovoltaic-Thermal Collector Equipped with Copper Metal Foam Air Channel
Energy sources Part A, Recovery, utilization, and environmental effects(2024)
摘要
Avoiding high temperatures in photovoltaic cells with appropriate cooling is necessary to increase their conversion efficiency. Passive cooling systems using metal foam in the air channel were investigated, but an overall assessment is necessary for its viable application. In this numerical study, the thermal, electrical, and exergy efficiencies, as well as the entropy generation of a PVT are analyzed in the presence of copper metal foam in the air channel. The investigation is performed using a CFD code based on the pressure-based finite volume method. The non-Darcy effects of the porous foam are taken into account. Validation of the numerical model is made by comparison of the numerical predictions with experimental results of the literature. The outcomes indicate that varying the porosity from 1 to 0.89 increases the thermal energy, electrical energy, and exergy efficiency from 44.50% to 67.01%, 10.64% to 11.54%, and 12.01% to 13.19%, respectively, while the entropy generation decreases from 1.3116 W/K to 1.2942 W/K. Furthermore, the optimum thickness of the cooling channel is determined (30 cm for 0.93 copper foam porosity).
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Metal foam,cooling,exergy,entropy,thermal performance,photovoltaic
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