A NUMERICAL STUDY ON PV PANELS INTEGRATED WITH HYBRID ZnO-MgO/WATER-ETHYLENE GLYCOL NANOFLUID-BASED SOLAR SPECTRUM FILTERS

Safan, Yasser Mohammed; Salem, Mohamed Reda; Abdel-Moneim, Sayed Ahmed; Elmohlawy, A. E.

doi:10.21608/auej.2024.302090.1701

A NUMERICAL STUDY ON PV PANELS INTEGRATED WITH HYBRID ZnO-MgO/WATER-ETHYLENE GLYCOL NANOFLUID-BASED SOLAR SPECTRUM FILTERS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, 108 Shoubra St., 11629, Cairo, Egypt.

² Industrial Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, October University for Modern Sciences and Arts, 6th October City, Egypt.

³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al Baha University, Al Baha, 65527 Saudi Arabia.

10.21608/auej.2024.302090.1701

Abstract

This study investigates the effect of using a hybrid nanofluid filter on the performance of a PV system. The ZnO-MgO/Water-Ethylene Glycol (W-EG)-based filter presents an economic and green optical filter. This study compares the effects of using a hybrid filter against other filters under a variable optical fluid mass flux (0-10 kg/s.m^2), a maximum radiation intensity (1000 W/m^2), and a fixed filter thickness (10 mm). The results show that a dynamic W-EG (60:40) filter with mass flux (1-6 kg/s.m^2), can reduce the temperature of the PV cells by 45% of that for a stationary filter. In addition, the performance of the spectral splitting filter-PV (SSF-PV) system shows an average enhancement ratio in the electrical efficiency by 28% more than that of the reference PV panel, and an average improvement in the cooling effect by 26%, relative to the fixed inlet temperature (20℃) of optical fluid. The proposed nanofluid-based SSF-PV system achieves an optimum electrical efficiency and enhanced cooling effect compared with investigated nanofluids.

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