Performance estimation of photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid systems

Jin Zhang; Yimin Xuan; Lili Yang

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2014.10.087

Performance estimation of photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid systems

Jin Zhang
, Yimin Xuan
, Lili Yang

School of Energy and Power Engineering

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Abstract

A theoretical model for evaluating the efficiency of concentrating PV-TE (photovoltaic-thermoelectric) hybrid system is developed in this paper. Hybrid systems with different photovoltaic cells are studied, including crystalline silicon photovoltaic cell, silicon thin-film photovoltaic cell, polymer photovoltaic cell and copper indium gallium selenide photovoltaic cell. The influence of temperature on the efficiency of photovoltaic cell has been taken into account based on the semiconductor equations, which reveals different efficiency temperature characteristic of polymer photovoltaic cells. It is demonstrated that the polycrystalline silicon thin-film photovoltaic cell is suitable for concentrating PV-TE hybrid system through optimization of the convection heat transfer coefficient and concentrating ratio. The polymer photovoltaic cell is proved to be suitable for non-concentrating PV-TE hybrid system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	895-903
Number of pages	9
Journal	Energy
Volume	78
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.10.087
State	Published - 15 Dec 2014

Keywords

Hybrid system
Photovoltaic module
Solar energy utilization
Thermoelectric conversion

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Performance estimation of photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid systems

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