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Performance study of solar cell arrays based on a Trough Concentrating Photovoltaic/Thermal system

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  • Li, Ming
  • Ji, Xu
  • Li, Guoliang
  • Wei, Shengxian
  • Li, YingFeng
  • Shi, Feng

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The performances of solar cell arrays based on a Trough Concentrating Photovoltaic/Thermal (TCPV/T) system have been studied via both experiment and theoretical calculation. The I–V characteristics of the solar cell arrays and the output performances of the TCPV/T system demonstrated that among the investigated four types of solar cell arrays, the triple junction GaAs cells possessed good performance characteristics and the polysilicon cells exhibited poor performance characteristics under concentrating conditions. The optimum concentration ratios for the single crystalline silicon cell, the Super cells and the GaAs cells were also studied by experiments. The optimum concentration ratios for the single crystalline silicon cells and Super cells were 4.23 and 8.46 respectively, and the triple junction GaAs cells could work well at higher concentration ratio. Besides, some theoretical calculations and experiments were performed to explore the influences of the series resistances and the working temperature. When the series resistances Rs changed from 0Ω to 1Ω, the maximum power Pm of the single crystalline silicon, the polycrystalline silicon, the Super cell and the GaAs cell arrays decreased by 67.78%, 74.93%, 77.30% and 58.07% respectively. When the cell temperature increased by 1K, the short circuit current of the four types of solar cell arrays decreased by 0.11818A, 0.05364A, 0.01387A and 0.00215A respectively. The research results demonstrated that the output performance of the solar cell arrays with lower series resistance was better and the working temperature had a negative impact on the current under concentration. In addition, solar irradiation intensity had certain effects on the solar cell’s performance. For the crystalline silicon solar cell arrays, when the solar direct radiation exceeded a certain value, the I–V curves almost became a straight line and the output performances decreased due to the high series resistance leading to the high power loss. For the triple junction GaAs solar cell array, its performance was always excellent.

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  • Li, Ming & Ji, Xu & Li, Guoliang & Wei, Shengxian & Li, YingFeng & Shi, Feng, 2011. "Performance study of solar cell arrays based on a Trough Concentrating Photovoltaic/Thermal system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(9), pages 3218-3227.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:88:y:2011:i:9:p:3218-3227
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.03.030
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