• Vipan Sharma
• Dr. Rakesh Dang

This paper is concerned with the performance analysis of photovoltaic thermal cooling based on phase change materials. Previous study shows that PV module efficiency decreases at a rate of 0.4-0.65% with a one-degree increment of the module temperature. In order to reduce the temperature of the PV panel or to maintain the efficiency of PV module, we apply various cooling methods. Phase change material based cooling method is one of them. In Phase change material based cooling system the external source of any power is not required. Phase change material based cooling system includes various steps like selection of Phase change material according to the climate of the region where experiment has to be conduct, fabrication of the Phase Change material container which is made of Aluminium, fabrication of PV panel setup and to figure out optimum direction of the placement of setup. Here Decanoic acid phase change material is selected because the average temperature of summer in experimental conducting region is 40-44 degree Celcius and the melting point temperature of Decanoic acid is 36 degree Celcius which will absorb the heat increment in temperature before 36 degree Celcius. Further, experiment is conducted for six days with and without applying cooling methods. First three days reading were taken without cooling method and last three days reading taken with cooling method i.e. phase change material based cooling system. The increment in the efficiency of cooled setup was 1.81% as compare to non-cooled setup.

Phase change material, PV module, efficiency,cooling

"PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC THERMAL COOLING BASED ON PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.856-862, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I02.pdf

"PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC THERMAL COOLING BASED ON PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp856-862, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I02.pdf