Cooling of PV Panels using Nanofluid(Fe3O4&CaCo3) and
Water and Natural Air
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Outline
• Objective s
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Justification of the work
• Methodology
• Proposed Design of The Experiment
• Time Plane
• Future Work
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Objectiv
e
• to investigate experimentally the effect of cooling on performance of PV
panels in terms of power and efficiency by using different types of
nanofluids such as Calcium Carbonate(CaCO3), and Ferro magnetite
(Fe3O4) and water and natural air as a cooling medium, in outdoors ,
under different radiation intensity
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Introduction
• Nanofluids are dilute liquid suspensions of nanoparticles with
at least one of their principal dimensions smaller than 100 nm
• Nanofluids are formed by suspending nano-sized particle with
base fluid
• The high surface area of nanoparticles enhances the heat
conduction of nanofluids since heat transfer occurs on the
surface of the particle
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Base fluid
Nanofluids
Nanoparticles
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• One of the main problems that limits the extensive use of PV
systems is the rising in temperature of PV panels in hot
climates. Overheating of a PV module decreases performance
of output power by 0.4-0.5% per 1°C over its rated
temperature ( 25 °C).
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• Jordan is one of the countries located in the global solar
belt, so it has enormous solar energy potential
• Solar energy, like other forms of alternative energy, remains
underutilized in Jordan. Decentralized photovoltaic units in rural
and remote villages are currently used for lighting, water
pumping and other social services (1000KW of peak capacity)
• The average solar radiation ranging between 5 and 7 KWh/m2,
which implies a potential of at least 1000 GWh per year
annually.
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• One of the most important problems is the heat
transfer that must be improved to ensure the
maximum benefit and the highest performance of the
solar panels
• nanofluids They are expected to give better
thermal performance than conventional fluids due
to the presence of suspended nanoparticles
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Literature Review
• 30 published papers related to nanofluid
cooling where studied by us and we found the
following :
•Experimental work related to PV panels cooling using nanofluids
and various methods.
•Papers related to the use of nanoscale fluids in different solar
panel systems such as (PV and PV/T)
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•The importance of heat transfer on the performance and
efficiency of solar panels
•The important of using nanofluids for cooling such as Al2O3,
Fe2O3 ,CuO , SIC and ZnO
• The nanomaterials that offer significant advantages of superior
thermophysical properties such as (thermal conductivity,
viscosity, stability)
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Justification of the work
Based on previous studies, the use of different cooling
mediums altogether To investigated any cooling medium that
gives the best efficiency and higher heat transfer And the
comparison between them , such as in our work CaCo3,
Fe3O4, water, and natural air cooling was score so this
motivated our work
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Methodology
Methodolog
y
5-Carry out 6-Analysis
7-Conclusion
4-Set up the experiment and
1- Carry out 2-Study the 3-Set up the and
testing rig work and discussion of
literature theory of testing rig recommenda
with all its records the
review Nanofluids design tion for
accessories experimental experiment
future work
data data
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Design of The Experiment
• Four PV panels
• Two Nano fl uid tank
• one Water tank
• six heat exchanger
• Three centrifugal pumps
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Time Plane
Project 1
NO. Task name Start Date Target Date
1 Beginning of the project 25/2/2021 ----
2 Choose the subject and group of the 25/2/2021 9/3/2021
project
3 gathering information about the 10/3/2021 20/3/2021
project
4 writing literature review 20/3/2021 15/4/2021
5 Writing Introduction 15/4/2021 1/5/2021
5 Writing the final research 1/5/2021 7/5/2021
6 Calculate the project budget 10/5/2021 18/5/2021
7 project ends 23/5/2021
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Project 2
specified time Task name
One week choice products to buy
Two weeks buy the products
Three weeks Begin installing the System
Two weeks Apply air cooling method and measure
the temperature
Two weeks Apply water cooling method and
measure the temperature
Two weeks Apply nano fluid cooling method and
measure the temperature
One week Report and compare readings
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Future work (Project
2)
• We will use nanofluid (CaCo3 & Fe3O4),
natural air, water, as a coolant to check
which one has the highest efficiency in
cooling the solar panels, and any method
of cooling given highest outbut power, and
finally to compare between of them
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END The
Presentation
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