Title: Optimisation of planer's tilts angles reflectors for solar hybrid photovoltaic thermal air collector

Authors: Ismail Tabet; Khaled Touafek; Noureddine Bouarroudj; Nadir Bellel; Abdelkrim Khelifa

Addresses: Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Université 20 Août 1955 de Skikda, BP 26, 21000, Algeria ' Unité de Recherche Appliquée en Energies Renouvelables (URAER), Centre de Développement des Énergies Renouvelables (CDER), 47133, Ghardaïa, Algeria ' Unité de Recherche Appliquée en Energies Renouvelables (URAER), Centre de Développement des Énergies Renouvelables (CDER), 47133, Ghardaïa, Algeria ' Department de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Université des Frères Mentouri Constantine 1, Algeria ' Unité de Recherche Appliquée en Energies Renouvelables (URAER), Centre de Développement des Énergies Renouvelables (CDER), 47133, Ghardaïa, Algeria

Abstract: Using concentrators to the output of hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) solar collectors has been proven cost effective. Flat reflectors offer a simpler, reliable and cheap solution to increase the amount of solar radiations that fall on the solar collector. They provide a uniform concentration of solar radiation over the PV/T collector and prevent a hot-spot phenomenon. In this study, an optimisation of planer's tilts angles reflectors for solar hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) air collector by implementing the particle swarm optimisation (PSO) method is done. The PV/T air solar collector is south oriented with tilted at site latitude angle. Then the total incident solar radiation on the PV/T air collector surface is estimated. An experimental test was conducted in the southern region of Algeria on a prototype of the hybrid PV/T air collector, with two reflectors mounted on the lower and upper parts of the PV/T air collector. A 9%-19% increase in quantity of solar radiation incidents on the PV/T air collector was observed with the addition of planer reflectors. The adding reflectors and cooling system causes a 7%-30% increase in the current and voltage of the PV module.

Keywords: hybrid PV/T collector; planer reflectors; optimisation; particle swarm optimisation; PSO.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEC.2019.102271

International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, 2019 Vol.10 No.3, pp.293 - 311

Received: 11 Jan 2017
Accepted: 04 Jun 2017

Published online: 16 Sep 2019 *

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