%0 Journal Article
%T Experimental Investigation of Solar Panel Cooling by a Novel Micro Heat Pipe Array
%A Xiao Tang
%A Zhenhua Quan
%A Yaohua Zhao
%J Energy and Power Engineering
%P 171-174
%@ 1947-3818
%D 2010
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/epe.2010.23025
%X A novel micro heat pipe array was used in solar panel cooling. Both of air-cooling and water-cooling conditions under nature convection condition were investigated in this paper. Compared with the ordinary solar panel, the maximum difference of the photoelectric conversion efficiency is 2.6%, the temperature reduces maximally by 4.7¡æ, the output power increases maximally by 8.4% for the solar panel with heat pipe using air-cooling, when the daily radiation value is 26.3 MJ. Compared with the solar panel with heat pipe using air-cooling, the maximum difference of the photoelectric conversion efficiency is 3%, the temperature reduces maximally by 8¡æ, the output power increases maximally by 13.9% for the solar panel with heat pipe using water-cooling, when the daily radiation value is 21.9 MJ.
%K Solar Panel Cooling
%K Photoelectric Conversion Efficiency
%K Micro Heat Pipe array
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=2408