Performance Evaluation of Photovoltaic Solar Panel Using Thermoelectric Cooling

As a great potential renewable energy source, solar energy is becoming one of the most important energies in the future. Performance of PV panel decreases with increase in temperature of the PV panel. Hence, output power of PV module drops with rise in temperature, if heat is not removed. The cooling of PV modules would enhance the performance of PV panel. In order to cool this thermoelectric system is used. Hybridisation of PV module with thermoelectric modules used to increase the overall efficiency of the solar energy conversion system by keeping temperature constant within the limits. Model of hybrid combination of PV?Thermoelectric has been developed and study of thermoelectric has done to illustrate its usefulness in hybrid model of PV and thermoelectric modules. This paper shows the performance of PV panel through augmentation of thermoelectric cooling system to increase overall electric conversion efficiency of PV array.