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SOLAR ENERGY
Volume 162, Issue -, Pages 378-396Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2018.01.026
Keywords
Hybrid PV/T collectors; Nanofluid; Nano-PCM; Artificial neural network
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- National University of Malaysia [AP-2017-006/2]
- Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI)
- Makmal Morfologi CRIM (FESEM laboratory)
- Makmal Pencirian Fizikal (XRD laboratory) from National University of Malaysia
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In this paper, a Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) system was proposed, built and tested. Three various types of cooling were proposed: tank filled with water and water flows through the cooling pipes, tank filled with PCM and water flows through the cooling pipes, and tank filled with PCM/nano-SiC and nanofluid (water-SiC) flows through the cooling pipes. The three proposed systems results were compared with conventional PV. According to the results, it was found that nano-PCM and nanofluid improved the electrical current from 3.69 A to 4.04, and the electrical efficiency from 8.07% to 13.32%, compared with conventional PV. In addition, three Artificial Neural Network (ANN), MLP, SOFM and SVM methods were implemented using the experimental results. The results indicate that the output of the network is in good agreement with the experimental results and published works.
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