Performance Improvement Analysis and Simulation of Solar PV/T Water Collector

The objective of this paper is to review the collection of literature available on the Photo Voltaic and Thermal Solar Collector. The review paper is presented to show the comparison of findings obtained by various research works. In solar collector, the solar energy from the sun is converted in to electrical energy by means of Photo Voltaic panel and thermal energy by converting cold water into hot water. Nowadays, solar collector is preferred in many industries and house hold applications to reduce the demand of electricity by increasing the effective utilization of solar energy coming from the sun. The selection of collector design plays vital role in the development of heat energy and electrical energy. The input process parameters such as type of collector, time, mass flow rate, flow direction, flow pattern and size of the flow tube are normally considered for the research work and the output responses like thermal efficiency and electrical efficiency are appraised by using the Photo Voltaic Thermal Hybrid Solar Collector. Normally experiments are to be conducted based on the recommendation by the Traditional and Non-Traditional techniques. The output efficiency of the solar collector is purely based on the selection of input process parameters. Based on the literature review, an investigation is essential to improve the performance of the solar collector. The authors found that input process parameters plays vital role in the quality and efficiency of the solar collector. Amarnath. K | Dr. Gopal. P | Sridharan. M | Dr. T. Senthil Kumar"Performance Improvement Analysis and Simulation of Solar PV/T Water Collector" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-4 , June 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd14201.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/mechanical-engineering/14201/performance-improvement-analysis-and-simulation-of-solar-pvt-water-collector/amarnath-k