TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical investigation and parametric analysis of a photovoltaic thermal system integrated with phase change material
AU - Kazemian, Arash
AU - Salari, Ali
AU - Hakkaki-Fard, Ali
AU - Ma, Tao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/3/15
Y1 - 2019/3/15
N2 - In this paper, a comprehensive three-dimensional model of photovoltaic thermal system integrated with phase change material (PVT/PCM) is developed and simulated. The effect of some key parameters using parametric analysis on performance of PVT/PCM system with water as working fluid is investigated. Parameters considered in this study include the properties of PCM (i.e. melting temperature, enthalpy of fusion and thermal conductivity), solar radiation and mass flow rate. The parametric analysis ranges are selected according to the properties of the most of available PCMs on the market, which shows the practical application of the numerical research. Furthermore, a three-dimensional model of PVT system is simulated as well to compare its performance with PVT/PCM system. An enthalpy-porosity method is used to simulate the solidification and melting of PCM. To solve the governing equations, the pressure-based finite volume method using transient solver in ANSYS Fluent 16.2 is employed. Moreover, the SIMPLE algorithm is selected to provide the coupling between the pressure and velocity components. The results present that the PVT/PCM system has lower surface temperature and coolant outlet temperature compared to the PVT only system. The results also shows that enhancing the melting temperature of PCM from 40 °C to 65 °C increases the surface temperature from 51.53 °C to 58.78 °C, while it reduces the percentage of melted PCM from 82.7% to 9.6%. It is also concluded that as the thermal conductivity of PCM enhances, both electrical and thermal energy efficiency of PVT/PCM system increase.
AB - In this paper, a comprehensive three-dimensional model of photovoltaic thermal system integrated with phase change material (PVT/PCM) is developed and simulated. The effect of some key parameters using parametric analysis on performance of PVT/PCM system with water as working fluid is investigated. Parameters considered in this study include the properties of PCM (i.e. melting temperature, enthalpy of fusion and thermal conductivity), solar radiation and mass flow rate. The parametric analysis ranges are selected according to the properties of the most of available PCMs on the market, which shows the practical application of the numerical research. Furthermore, a three-dimensional model of PVT system is simulated as well to compare its performance with PVT/PCM system. An enthalpy-porosity method is used to simulate the solidification and melting of PCM. To solve the governing equations, the pressure-based finite volume method using transient solver in ANSYS Fluent 16.2 is employed. Moreover, the SIMPLE algorithm is selected to provide the coupling between the pressure and velocity components. The results present that the PVT/PCM system has lower surface temperature and coolant outlet temperature compared to the PVT only system. The results also shows that enhancing the melting temperature of PCM from 40 °C to 65 °C increases the surface temperature from 51.53 °C to 58.78 °C, while it reduces the percentage of melted PCM from 82.7% to 9.6%. It is also concluded that as the thermal conductivity of PCM enhances, both electrical and thermal energy efficiency of PVT/PCM system increase.
KW - CFD
KW - Parametric analysis
KW - Phase change material
KW - Photovoltaic thermal system
KW - Thermodynamic analysis
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000461262300053
UR - https://openalex.org/W2913327212
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85060332655
U2 - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.01.103
DO - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.01.103
M3 - Journal Article
SN - 0306-2619
VL - 238
SP - 734
EP - 746
JO - Applied Energy
JF - Applied Energy
ER -
