Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors
A study on photovoltaic cell has been carried out. Areas in which the efficiency and performance of the photovoltaic cell can be improved on have been researched and experimented. The aim of the research is to find out how the performance of the cell will be affected by the configuration of the phot...
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| author | Koo, Guo Qiang. |
| author2 | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
| author_facet | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Koo, Guo Qiang. |
| author_sort | Koo, Guo Qiang. |
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| description | A study on photovoltaic cell has been carried out. Areas in which the efficiency and performance of the photovoltaic cell can be improved on have been researched and experimented. The aim of the research is to find out how the performance of the cell will be affected by the configuration of the photovoltaic cell i.e. a flat cell as compared to a convex cell with different curvatures.
Results showed that convex cell has the ability to intercept more incident radiation during periods when the hour angle is high when compared to a flat cell. This is due to a change in projected area of the cell.
The ability of the convex cell to intercept more incident radiation translates to a greater total power output throughout the duration of the day. When the curvature (K) is increased, the amount of voltage and current generated increases (12.8% to 61.7%) and (1.8% to 23.7%) respectively and there is also an increase (17.6% to 100.3%) in power generated. Generally, the cell efficiencies (eff) increases from 0.49% to 2.17%.
From this study, it was found that the convex cell with K = 37.0 had the best performance (eff = 2.17%) amongst the cells. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/403762023-03-04T18:42:44Z Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors Koo, Guo Qiang. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Fei Duan DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Alternative, renewable energy sources A study on photovoltaic cell has been carried out. Areas in which the efficiency and performance of the photovoltaic cell can be improved on have been researched and experimented. The aim of the research is to find out how the performance of the cell will be affected by the configuration of the photovoltaic cell i.e. a flat cell as compared to a convex cell with different curvatures. Results showed that convex cell has the ability to intercept more incident radiation during periods when the hour angle is high when compared to a flat cell. This is due to a change in projected area of the cell. The ability of the convex cell to intercept more incident radiation translates to a greater total power output throughout the duration of the day. When the curvature (K) is increased, the amount of voltage and current generated increases (12.8% to 61.7%) and (1.8% to 23.7%) respectively and there is also an increase (17.6% to 100.3%) in power generated. Generally, the cell efficiencies (eff) increases from 0.49% to 2.17%. From this study, it was found that the convex cell with K = 37.0 had the best performance (eff = 2.17%) amongst the cells. Bachelor of Engineering 2010-06-15T03:50:42Z 2010-06-15T03:50:42Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40376 en Nanyang Technological University 130 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Alternative, renewable energy sources Koo, Guo Qiang. Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors |
| title | Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors |
| title_full | Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors |
| title_fullStr | Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors |
| title_short | Flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors |
| title_sort | flat and convex photovoltaic cell collectors |
| topic | DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Alternative, renewable energy sources |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40376 |
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