Effect of Internal Heating on Thermal performance of Hybrid Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) Collector System
Abstract
The idea of combining PV cells with thermal collector, which is the PV/T collector, has been around since the early 1960s. Until now, principal aspects of PV/T have been discussed in various scientific papers. Most of them concern experiments conducted outdoor. In order to succeed in implementation, however, there is still some work to be done for PV/T collectors. That is the basic mechanism of interaction between the PV cell and the thermal collector in the PV/T system does not seem to be well understood. In our previous outdoor tests [Yandri et al, 2010], thermal efficiency of PV/T system differed depending on the operation mode, i.e., PV/T-mode and T-mode