Performance of a single pass air base photovoltaic/thermal solar collector with and without hexagonal honeycomb heat exchanger

World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conferen

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 859-864

  Hussain, F ^a   Anuar, Z ^a   Khairuddin, S ^a   Othman, M Y H ^b   Yatim, B ^b   Ruslan, H ^b   Sopian, K ^b  

^a National Metrology Laboratory   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Electrical efficiency; Honeycomb heat exchanger; Photovoltaic thermal; Thermal efficiency

Indexed keywords

AIR BASE; ALUMINUM HONEYCOMB; ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY; FLOWTHROUGH; HEXAGONAL HONEYCOMB; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; MASS FLOW RATE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC/THERMAL; PV MODULES; SINGLE PASS; SOLAR DRYING SYSTEMS; SOLAR THERMAL; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

AIR; ALUMINUM; HEAT EXCHANGERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PIPE FLOW; SOLAR COLLECTORS;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 84871530939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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