• Prasad V. Ghanekar
• Viraj D. Patil
• Pratik A. Tekale
• Shubham B. Kokate
• Mahesh P. Kumbhare

The aim of this research paper is to investigate the effect of temperature on the solar photovoltaic panel (PV panel) efficiency. The efficiency of the solar PV panel is depending upon the cell temperature, as the temperature of the solar panel increases the efficiency of the cell decrease. A phase change material (PCM) cooling technique has been incorporated to cool solar panel. An experimental test setup was manufactured for indoor testing of the solar PV cell with different heat flux technique. Five different irradiations was selected for the analysis by varying the halogen lamp intensity. Voltage and current was recoded for every irradiation, electrical and thermal efficiency was calculated. The results shows that, the maximum electrical efficiency was found 0.56 for without cooling system while it was 0.6 with cooling solar system. There is a 4% of rise of the efficiency with the addition of the PCM cooling. Hence, it is concluded that, the cooling technique of the solar PV cell was beneficial to improve the performance of the system.

Photovoltaic solar panel, electrical efficiency, phase change material, solar irradiations.

"Experimental analysis of thermal cooling of solar photovoltaic panel using PCM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 2, page no.2258-2265, February-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2102278.pdf

"Experimental analysis of thermal cooling of solar photovoltaic panel using PCM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 2, page no. pp2258-2265, February-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2102278.pdf