The Use of Photovoltaic Concentrators as Applied to Tracking Solar Cooling System. | ||||
| MEJ- Mansoura Engineering Journal | ||||
| Article 2, Volume 10, Issue 1, June 1985, Page 14-28 PDF (138.6 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Studies | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/bfemu.2021.175988 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Mohamed Galal Abdel-Hamid Osman* | ||||
| Associate Professor, Electrical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| At favourable conditions, the average intensity of solar power is about 0.8 KW/m2 at noon for a clear summer day in Kuwait, Assuming a photovoltaic system total efficiency to be 6%, the corresponding specific area required during this favourable atmospheric conditions will be about 20 m2/kW; which has to be increased considerably for the rest time of the day and year, unless a tracking solar system is used to limit to some extent the increase of this specific solar, area. In order to obtain a further decrease of such a specific solar area, conical concentrators are suggested to be used with the photovoltaic cells in addition to the tracking solar system. In this paper a comparison between the experimental voltage-current characteristics of one type of photovoltaic cells with and without concentrators is presented; illustrating the design and shape of these concentrators when used with photovoltaic cells as applied to a solar cooling system in arid zones. | ||||
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