TY - GEN
T1 - Numerical analysis of direct liquid-immersed solar cell cooling of a linear concentrating photovoltaic receiver
AU - Han, Xinyue
AU - Everett, Vernie
AU - Wang, Yiping
AU - Zhu, Li
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Direct liquid immersion cooling of concentrator solar cells is proposed as a solution for receiver thermal management of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) and hybrid concentrating photovoltaic thermal (CPV-T) systems. A novel receiver incorporating direct liquid-immersed cell cooling has been developed for linear trough CPV and CPV-T systems at ANU. Several potential working fluids have undergone preliminary investigation as candidate immersion liquids in the novel receiver. Deionised (DI) water has been used as the working fluid in this study. The flow distribution and concentrator solar cell temperature profiles from three-dimensional numerical simulations are presented. The optical concentration ratio, the fluid inlet velocity and fluid flow characteristics, and the inlet fluid temperature have a decisive influence on the concentrator solar cell operating temperature.
AB - Direct liquid immersion cooling of concentrator solar cells is proposed as a solution for receiver thermal management of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) and hybrid concentrating photovoltaic thermal (CPV-T) systems. A novel receiver incorporating direct liquid-immersed cell cooling has been developed for linear trough CPV and CPV-T systems at ANU. Several potential working fluids have undergone preliminary investigation as candidate immersion liquids in the novel receiver. Deionised (DI) water has been used as the working fluid in this study. The flow distribution and concentrator solar cell temperature profiles from three-dimensional numerical simulations are presented. The optical concentration ratio, the fluid inlet velocity and fluid flow characteristics, and the inlet fluid temperature have a decisive influence on the concentrator solar cell operating temperature.
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U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614188
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614188
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781424458912
T3 - Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
SP - 3033
EP - 3038
BT - Program - 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2010
T2 - 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2010
Y2 - 20 June 2010 through 25 June 2010
ER -