• Chetan Agarwal
• Dr. S R Nigam

This paper presents a practical implementation of a solar thermophotovoltaic (TPV) micro generator system. The system presented in the paper comprises a cylindrical shaped emitter (made of copper coated with Ni), and an hexagonal-shaped air-cooled (cooling is done with the metallic projections known as fins) TPV generator comprising --- Si TPV cells, which is surrounding the cylindrical emitter. This paper focuses on the development of TPV cell arrays, the estimation of the temperature achieved by the cylindrical emitters operated under controlled microflame application , and the evaluation of the full system performance under real indoor flame conditions. From the system characterization, we have measured short-circuit current densities up to 0.95 mA/cm2, electric power densities of 67 mW/cm . In this thesis a TPV system is designed and developed in the laboratory of Rabindranath Tagore university and experimentation is carried out in the winter season which falls during the 1st December to 30th December 2018.

Micro-thermophotovoltaic systems; Electric power densities; emitters;curren densities

"Performance evaluation of a hybrid CHP TPV microgenerator", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.509-519, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904276.pdf

"Performance evaluation of a hybrid CHP TPV microgenerator", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp509-519, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904276.pdf