A Review of Performance Hybrid Photovoltaic/Thermal System for General Applications
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Frequently Asked Questions (22)
Q2. What is the performance of a hybrid photovoltaic thermal solar still?
Based on the energy and transfer of exergy analysis will use cooling cell panel as a resolution in the photovoltaic thermal (PV/T), where it is obtained on both electricity and warmth (air and water) as the heating fluid in the PV/T collectors which can be used for heating purposes or in industrial applications, it is necessary for the performance of PV modules at low temperature will dilute the value of the gain heat and the efficiency of exegetic will be very small [30].
Q3. What was the purpose of the study?
The target of this study was to take advantage of the hybrid solar collector to achieve maximize the contributions of solar energy to generate electricity and thermal profits useful.
Q4. What is the principle of the water based PV/T collector?
The principle of water based PV/T is similar to the air based collector where cold water is practiced as a medium to soak up heat from the sunlight which islater can be used for low heat temperature processes [34].
Q5. What is the way to simulate a hybrid solar system?
Modeling and simulation of hybrid PV–thermal solar system by use TRNSYSThe hybrid photovoltaic/thermal system which can provide at the same time both electricity, thermal energy and according to Cyprus conditions, it has worked both of “Soteris and Kalogirou” by used thesystem it has been modeled using TRNSYS.
Q6. What is the effect of a booster diffuse reflector on the solar thermal system?
Therefore large area solar modules will absorb large amounts of solar irradiation, so that will causes loss at the same time in heat units, it has examined experimentally some of hybrid system and found that when using of a booster diffuse reflector will contributed increased the performance of the system and gave giving possibilities for more active for practical applications take the benefit of absorbed solar energy which is not converted into electricity to utilized for thermal applications [25].
Q7. What is the way to evaluate the performance of a hybrid solar still?
Application simulation of solar heating on hybrid photovoltaic/Thermal collectors (PVT)To achieving the solar energy which can offer a suitable solution for the electricity and heat in solar panels and/or photovoltaic thermal panels because in this system of electricity production is specially priority for fields that do not have potential high solar energy, where totally recognize that the cell temperature affects on operate photovoltaic panels and efficiency which limits the growth of photovoltaic panels, Nevertheless, suggested one good solution to analyze the hybrid operation of PV/T integrated system that increase solar contributions for electricity and useful thermal profits [10].
Q8. What is the efficiency of a solar thermal collector?
Depending on the type of solar cells with occupies an area of about 10 m2, found that the amount of energy can be produced in electric with a 1600W (PV) system.
Q9. What is the effect of the solar cells on the energy efficiency of buildings?
That led to increase the rate return of the system of electricity and thermal energy, where contribute to a large extent to strengthen the work of solar cells, system efficiency and the conversion rate of absorbed solar radiation for (PV) modules will increase as well, especially when the hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar systems were properly designed.
Q10. What is the role of the solar cells in the energy production of buildings?
Performance evaluation of (PV/T) hybrid systems for a lot of experiments were various where the amount of falling solar radiation, design, orientation and selection type solar cell, all of that plays essential role in the amount of energy produced.
Q11. What is the effect of the use of hybrid solar cells?
use hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) collector with mediums such as (water or air) will contribute to raising system efficiency during the absorption of excess heat from solar cells, and avoid the high temperatures absorbed by (PV) modules by the piping that fixed in the face back of the panel and take the advantage of heat which absorbed for household applications or heating purposes.
Q12. What is the way to model the hybrid PV/thermal solar system?
Production electric and thermal energy of hybrid PV/T solar systemsExploitation the amount of energy from hot water and electricity led to motivate many researchers to develop the performance of hybrid PV/T system in order to maintain the electrical efficiency of photovoltaic cells at the adequate level at high temperature, it is necessary for the operation of PV modules at low temperatures by using natural or forced air circulation simple and low-cost methods for transferring heat from the PV modules [18, 19].
Q13. What is the effect of a glass cover on the efficiency of a solar thermal module?
It has found that without a glass cover the efficiency was 10%, this is 6% more in effect than a standard module because of the cooling effect [22].
Q14. What is the way to model a hybrid solar system?
Perform experiments on a hybrid PV/ T solar collectorConventional flat plate collector solar thermal with PV cells composite working in the absorption solar radiation for the output of both electrical and thermal energy, has removed the heat from PV cells that led to higher electrical efficiency of the photovoltaic and useful thermal energy extracted from one of the ends the ducts [17], as well as conducted tests and analyzes on performance the hybrid PV/T system which generation electricity and thermal both, this experiment done by constant temperature processing of marinade made.
Q15. What is the description of the hybrid system?
A hybrid system which could be generating both electricity and hot water warming, it has been modeled number of cases in order to improve the water flow rate to collector.
Q16. how is the performance of a hybrid photovoltaic/thermal solar still?
Performance of a hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) under active solar A simple design of hybrid (PV/T) double-slope active solar still has been fined and its performance isevaluated in field conditions, the solar energy productively still can be improved by increasing the temperature of the water in the solar energy is still one of the parameters, where it has designed, manufactured and evaluates the performance of a hybrid photovoltaic thermal system (double slope of the active solar still) and modifies the photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) dual-slope active solar energy is still designed and fabricated to remote sites.
Q17. What is the performance of a hybrid photovoltaic/thermal solar still?
In this design have been integrated two main types of solar active devices to produce energy into the building thermal solar collectors to convert sunlight into usable heat and photovoltaic (PV) panels to convert solar radiation into electrical [19], found that relatively low conversion efficiency of photovoltaic cells (usually in the range 10-20%), and the cells have a high absorption of all the sun's rays, leading to most of the solar radiation absorbed by the PV cells in heat transfer will increase the cell temperature, therefore the reduced efficiency.
Q18. What is the effect of solar radiation on the efficiency of solar cells?
Where found during this study receive more direct exposure to solar radiation that will effect on the work of (PV) modules by increase temperature and drop the efficiency of solar cells.
Q19. What is the effect of the solar thermal collector on the efficiency of the conversion unit?
A result of this excessive heating of the modules will led to reduction of conversion unit’s efficiency, for this reason some of this type does not convert 80-95% of the energy collected to electricity to remove the extravagant heat.
Q20. What is the difference between the two hybrid solutions?
It has considered that at least one of the two hybrid solutions (with covered or not) is more efficient than the traditional one (PV + T), in order to avoid the reduction of the age of solar hybrid assembly found two choices.
Q21. What is the main difference between the two types of solar collectors?
It is well known that using a hybrid system can eliminate the need for an external source of electrical energy, new technology developments in solar energy utilization are expected to result in the improvement of the photovoltaic performance with lower production cost.
Q22. What is the difference between the two hybrid systems?
The results obtained from these study PV modules absorb a significant sum of solar radiation that generates unwanted heat; however, this loss represents only 1% of the energy 7 kWh that is consumed by the typical family the proposed hybrid system produces thermal energy roughly 2.8 kWh per day.