Ashok Kumar, L., Indragandhi, V., Teekaraman, Y. orcid.org/0000-0003-4297-3460 et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Design and implementation of automatic water spraying system for solar photovoltaic module. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022. 7129610. ISSN 1024-123X
Abstract
Photovoltaic (PV) cell has a characteristic of decrease in power beyond a certain temperature. This decrease in power is due to a drop in the open circuit cell voltage. This decreases the efficiency of the PV cell. The objective of this research is to increase the efficiency of PV cells by reducing the PV cell temperature and reflection loss. The cell temperature and reflection loss can be reduced by spraying water over the PV cells. On spraying water over the USP36, 24V PV module, the power is found to be increased. The test result shows a 1V to 2V increase in voltage, with an efficiency increment of 1% to 1.27%. The test results of USP37 show the voltage increase of 1.2 V to 2.1 V in the PV module voltage. Due to the increase in voltage, efficiency increment of 1.29% is observed. The efficiency of USP36 with water spraying is more than the efficiency of USP37 without water spraying. In the PV power systems, an average increase in efficiency of 0.5% is observed.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 L. Ashok Kumar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 May 2022 16:01 |
Last Modified: | 05 May 2022 16:01 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Hindawi Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1155/2022/7129610 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186134 |