Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring
Solar photovoltaic (PV) performance is affected by increased panel temperature. Maintaining an optimal PV panel temperature is essential for sustaining performance and maximizing the productive life of solar PV panels. Current temperature sensors possess a long response time and low resolution and a...
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| author | Samiappan Dhanalakshmi Venkatesh Chakravartula Rajamanickam Narayanamoorthi Ramamoorthy Kumar Gerard Dooly Dinesh Babu Duraibabu Ramalingam Senthil |
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| description | Solar photovoltaic (PV) performance is affected by increased panel temperature. Maintaining an optimal PV panel temperature is essential for sustaining performance and maximizing the productive life of solar PV panels. Current temperature sensors possess a long response time and low resolution and accuracy. Advanced fibre-optic sensors offer distinct advantages of greater accuracy, a more comprehensive range, and a very high sampling rate. The present experimental work focuses on fibre Bragg grating sensor-based solar PV panel temperature monitoring. The unique capabilities of fibre-optic sensors are demonstrated by studying the rapid perturbations in panel temperature over time for indoor and outdoor conditions. The effects of incident radiation flux and the inclination angle on panel temperature are analyzed. Temperature sensitivity of 6 pm/°C is obtained. The results are helpful in dynamic monitoring of panel temperature, understanding the thermal interactions at the microscale level, and streamlining the measured temperature of multiple panels on solar farms. Thus, the proposed advanced method of FBG-based temperature monitoring of solar panels could be helpful to operate an integrated cooling system to improve the performance of solar panels. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-42e8beb6ddc7464b9478f1046ca616972022-12-22T00:00:45ZengElsevierCase Studies in Thermal Engineering2214-157X2022-03-0131101834Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoringSamiappan Dhanalakshmi0Venkatesh Chakravartula1Rajamanickam Narayanamoorthi2Ramamoorthy Kumar3Gerard Dooly4Dinesh Babu Duraibabu5Ramalingam Senthil6Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, IndiaDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, IndiaCentre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS), University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Limerick, IrelandCentre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS), University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Limerick, Ireland; Corresponding author.Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India; Corresponding author.Solar photovoltaic (PV) performance is affected by increased panel temperature. Maintaining an optimal PV panel temperature is essential for sustaining performance and maximizing the productive life of solar PV panels. Current temperature sensors possess a long response time and low resolution and accuracy. Advanced fibre-optic sensors offer distinct advantages of greater accuracy, a more comprehensive range, and a very high sampling rate. The present experimental work focuses on fibre Bragg grating sensor-based solar PV panel temperature monitoring. The unique capabilities of fibre-optic sensors are demonstrated by studying the rapid perturbations in panel temperature over time for indoor and outdoor conditions. The effects of incident radiation flux and the inclination angle on panel temperature are analyzed. Temperature sensitivity of 6 pm/°C is obtained. The results are helpful in dynamic monitoring of panel temperature, understanding the thermal interactions at the microscale level, and streamlining the measured temperature of multiple panels on solar farms. Thus, the proposed advanced method of FBG-based temperature monitoring of solar panels could be helpful to operate an integrated cooling system to improve the performance of solar panels.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X22000806Solar energyPhotovoltaicTemperature sensorFibre bragg gratingFibre-optic sensorRadiation flux |
| spellingShingle | Samiappan Dhanalakshmi Venkatesh Chakravartula Rajamanickam Narayanamoorthi Ramamoorthy Kumar Gerard Dooly Dinesh Babu Duraibabu Ramalingam Senthil Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring Case Studies in Thermal Engineering Solar energy Photovoltaic Temperature sensor Fibre bragg grating Fibre-optic sensor Radiation flux |
| title | Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring |
| title_full | Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring |
| title_fullStr | Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring |
| title_short | Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring |
| title_sort | thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre bragg grating sensor based temperature monitoring |
| topic | Solar energy Photovoltaic Temperature sensor Fibre bragg grating Fibre-optic sensor Radiation flux |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X22000806 |
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