Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques : Types, Applications, Assessment Methods, and Current and Future Challenges

Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques: Types, Applications, Assessment Methods, and Current and Future Challenges offers an up-to-date, central resource covering the latest photovoltaic module cooling techniques and their application, performance assessment methods, and the current and future challenges. The book begins by introducing photovoltaic technology before reviewing existing types and applications of PV cooling techniques and their effects on performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.

Subsequent chapters examine, in detail, various methods and approaches, including temperature dependent PV efficiency and power difference factors, PV cooling techniques, production cost effectiveness, the use of power ratio for evaluating performance of PV coolers when different PV reference power values are used, lifespan effectiveness factor and critical mass flow rate for evaluating performance of cooling techniques, and the definition and use of energy per weight, volume and area factors for assessing performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.

• Presents cutting-edge photovoltaic module cooling techniques, types, and applications
• Covers established and new assessment methods to evaluate performance of module cooling techniques
• Addresses cost effectiveness, lifecycle, and current and future challenges in research and implementation

Dr. Sakhr M. Sultan received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering, and M.S. and PhD degrees in Renewable Energy from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2012, 2017 and 2021, respectively. From 2017 to 2020, he was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Centre of Advanced Materials and Green Technology, Malaysia. From 2021 to 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Since 2022, he is a Senior Lecturer at Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. His research interests include heat transfer and solar energy. He published more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Kamaruzzaman Bin Sopian is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. He has been involved in the field of solar energy for more than twenty years. His main contributions are in solar radiation modelling, alternative materials for solar absorbers, solar water heating systems with integrated storage systems, solar desalination, solar cooling, daylighting using solar light pipes, solar assisted drying systems, grid connected photovoltaic systems, thin film silicon solar cells, combined photovoltaic thermal or hybrid collectors and solar hydrogen production systems. Prof. Bin Sopian has published over 1000 research papers and has delivered keynote speeches at national and international conferences. He is founding member of the Malaysian Institute of Energy, a member of the World Renewable Energy Network based in the United Kingdom. He heads several national Malaysian government subcommittees to promote awareness, market enhancement, policy studies and the applications of renewable energy.