采用热管冷却技术的太阳能光伏电–热一体化系统性能分析

Analysis on Performance of Solar Photovoltaic-thermal Hybrid System With Heat Pipe Cooling

太阳能光伏电–热(photovoltaic-thermal,PV-T)一体化系统将光伏组件与太阳能热利用系统组合在一起,具有较高的太阳能综合利用效率。针对热管具有高效传热和均温性能的特点,提出一种采用热管冷却技术的太阳能光伏电-热一体化系统;基于光伏电池板传热过程特点及换热器的传热有效度——传热单元数(ε-NTU)法,对热管式PV-T系统的电池板温度、冷却流体出口温度以及系统电效率和热效率等热电转换性能进行了理论分析和计算。结果表明,热管式PV-T系统的电池温度变化幅度在2.5℃以内,系统电效率和热效率分别达到6.99%～7.46%和51.0%～63.2%。该文提出的理论方法为研究热管式PV-T系统热电转换性能提供了一种新的途径,可用来分析和讨论相关参数对热管式PV-T系统性能的影响。

Solar photovoltaic-thermal（PV-T） hybrid system combines photovoltaic cell component with thermal utilization system,which has potential high overall conversion efficiency.A PV-T hybrid system with heat pipe cooling was put forward concerning that heat pipe has high heat transfer performance and uniform working temperature.The thermal to electrical conversion performance of the PV-T hybrid system,such as solar cell plate temperature,outlet temperature of cooling fluid,the electrical and thermal efficiencies,were theoretically analyzed based on the heat transfer characteristics of solar cell plate and the heat transfer effectiveness-number of heat transfer unit（？-NTU） method of heat exchanger.The results show that,for the heat pipe PV-T hybrid system,the variation of solar cell temperature is within 2.5 ℃,and the electrical and thermal efficiencies of system can reach up to 6.99%~7.46% and 51.0%~63.2%,respectively.This theoretical method provides a new approach to study the performance of PV-T hybrid system and can be applied to analyze and discuss the influence of relevant parameters on the thermal to electrical conversion performance of PV-T hybrid system with heat pipe cooling.