Passive cooling of standalone flat PV module with cotton wick structures

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-50

  Chandrasekar, M ^a   Suresh, S ^b   Senthilkumar, T ^a   Ganesh Karthikeyan, M ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Module temperature; Passive cooling; PV module; Wick

Indexed keywords

CUO/WATER NANOFLUID; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; IMPROVING EFFICIENCY; MODULE TEMPERATURE; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PASSIVE COOLING; PV MODULES; WICK;

CAPILLARITY; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; NANOFLUIDICS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

COTTON;

EID: 84876227743     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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