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SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 92, Issue 11, Pages 1393-1402Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2008.05.016
Keywords
PV cell operating temperature; solar cell; PV cell efficiency; temperature dependence of PV efficiency; mounting parameter
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Following a brief discussion regarding the operating temperature of commercial grade silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells/modules and its effect upon the performance of free-standing one-sun PV installations, a simple semi-empirical explicit correlation for PV cell temperature and the corresponding efficiency form are proposed for modules of arbitrary mounting. To this end, a dimensionless mounting parameter, a), is introduced rendering the correlations suitable for systems like building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) array generators. The implications of ignoring radiation and free-convection are quantified and a comparison is made with analogous relations in the literature. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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