Photovoltaic panel cooling by atmospheric water
The temperature of PV panel and the weight change curve of the hydrogel cooling layer. The power of PV panel during operation and the accumulated electricity generated in daily base.
This system can be easily integrated with PV and adaptively provide evaporative cooling underneath PV according to the on-site weather conditions. During the field operation, the developed cooling system can offer a temperature reduction of 20°C with near-zero energy and very low water consumption.
Energy Convers. Manag. 2023; 283:116912 This paper presents a photovoltaic (PV) cooling system combining a thin-film evaporator and control circuit. This system can be easily integrated with PV and adaptively provide evaporative cooling underneath PV according to the on-site weather conditions.
The presence of the slowly moving water film can reject the waste heat from the PV panel via interfacial evaporation. As weather conditions change, a control platform is developed to trigger this passive process adaptively.
The cooling performance (i.e. the temperature of PV panel) of PV panel with and without hydrogel is compared in Supplementary Figure 15d. As can be seen, a peak value of ~8 oC of temperature difference can be observed when the hydrogel cooling layer was employed.
The temperature of PV panel and the weight change curve of the hydrogel cooling layer. The power of PV panel during operation and the accumulated electricity generated in daily base.
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Finally, Stiubiener et al. [13] indicates that covering an irrigation canal in Brazil with at least 5 of photovoltaic panels could save 25% of the water from evaporation, amounting to 25,000 m3per day.
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