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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.7.4463

Development of Solar Concentrator Cooling System  

Lee, HeeJoon (Mirtech R&D Research Center)
Cha, Gueesoo (Department of Electrical Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.7, 2014 , pp. 4463-4468 More about this Journal
Abstract
To increase the efficiency of a solar module, the development of solar concentrator using a lens or reflection plate is being proceeded actively and the concentrator pursues the a concentration using a lens or an optical device of a concentration rate and designing as a solar tracking system. On the other hand, as the energy density being dissipated as a heat according to the concentration rate increases, the cares should be taken to cool the solar concentrator to prevent the lowering of efficiency of solar cell by the increasing temperature of the solar cell. This study, researched and developed an economical concentrator module system using a low priced reflection optical device. A concentrator was used as a general module to increase the generation efficiency of the solar module and heat generated was emitted by the concentration through the cooling system. To increase the efficiency of the solar concentrator, the cooling system was designed and manufactured. The features of the micro cooling system (MCS) are a natural circulation method by the capillary force, which does not require external power. By using the potential heat in the case of changing the fluid, it is available to realize high performance cooling. The 117W solar modules installed on the reflective plate and the cooling device in the cooling module and the module unit was not compared. The cooling device was installed in the module resulted in a 28% increase in power output.
Keywords
Concentrator; Micro channel; Cooling system; PV Tracking;
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