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Enhancing the Overall Performance of High-Concentration Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems Employing Hybrid Cooling Topologies

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Last updated: 09 Mar 2025

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High-concentrated photovoltaic (PV) panels encounter critical challenges, such as the non-uniform distribution of the solar spectrum and diminished efficiency, which significantly impact their overall performance and long-term durability. This study presents a novel hybrid cooling topology, which combines a spider network as a heat sink with jet impingement technology. This cooling topology employs a hexagonal spider network of microchannels, featuring several jets and four outlet manifolds, designed to ensure optimal temperature uniformity across the PV panel. A series of multiphysics simulation activities is conducted to ensure accurate modeling of the optical, thermal, and electrical performance, integrating computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for thermal-electric analysis and Mote Carlo ray-tracing techniques for optical modeling. The reliability of the simulations is measured and verified. The overall performance of the concentrator photovoltaic/thermal (CPV/T) system is evaluated under different solar intensities (400-1200 W/m2), coolant flow rates (0.5-1.3 kg/s), and manifold angles (1-5^°). The findings reveal that the lowest pumping power is achieved by a manifold angle of 5^°. Moreover, the five-degree, four-outlet manifold design achieves superior performance with a total exergy efficiency of 9.28% and electrical energy efficiency of 8.96% at a flow rate of 1.3 kg/s. Compared to the previous design in the literature, the advanced cooling system enhances net electric power by 84.71%, net output power by 135.25%, reduces pumping power by 71.67%, and lowers temperature nonuniformity by 52.89% .

DOI

10.21608/erj.2025.342458.1157

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High-concentration photovoltaic/thermal systems, hybrid cooling topology, energy and exergy analysis, net output power

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Ahmed

Last Name

Ali

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Mohammed

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Laboratory of Thermodynamics, Faculty of Engineering (Elmataria), Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

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ahmedibrahim777@m-eng.helwan.edu.eg

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HELWAN

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Mostafa

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Abdel-Samie

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Mohammed

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Laboratory of Thermodynamics, Faculty of Engineering (Elmataria), Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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mostafa.ismael@ku.ac.ae

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HELWAN

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Mohamed

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Abdel-Rahman

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Laboratory of Thermodynamics, Faculty of Engineering (Elmataria), Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

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marmdtu@yahoo.com

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HELWAN

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184

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2

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54116

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2025-03-01

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2024-12-07

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2025-03-01

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24

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46

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1110-5615

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3062-5408

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Engineering Research Journal

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Enhancing the Overall Performance of High-Concentration Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems Employing Hybrid Cooling Topologies

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09 Mar 2025