a photovoltaicthermal system with a combination of a booster diffuse reflector and vacuum tube for generation of electricity and hot water production论文.pdfVIP

Renewable Energy 78 (2015) 245e252 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Renewable Energy journal homepage: /locate/renene A photovoltaic/thermal system with a combination of a booster diffuse reflector and vacuum tube for generation of electricity and hot water production * Milad Mohsenzadeh, Reza Hosseini Mechanical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave, Tehran, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Using water as a coolant to reduce the temperature of solar cells is one of the best methods for improving Received 30 May 2014 the efficiency of a photovoltaic/thermal system. However the heat absorbed from the solar cell panel is Accepted 3 January 2015 not enough for providing domestic hot water. In this article, a new architecture of photovoltaic/thermal Available online 21 January 2015 system is proposed and investigated. A silicon monocrystalline photovoltaic module is used with appropriate reflectors in order to increase insolation in conjunction with a closed loop cooling facility to Keywords: efficiently extract the panels heat. The absorbed heat from the photovoltaic/thermal panel, is used to Photovoltaic/thermal preheat the water flow before entering four vacuum tube solar water heaters placed on both sides of the Solar wa