TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring
AU - Dhanalakshmi, Samiappan
AU - Chakravartula, Venkatesh
AU - Narayanamoorthi, Rajamanickam
AU - Kumar, Ramamoorthy
AU - Dooly, Gerard
AU - Duraibabu, Dinesh Babu
AU - Senthil, Ramalingam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Solar photovoltaic (PV) performance is affected by increased panel temperature. Maintaining an optimal PV panel temperature is essential for sustaining performance and maximizing the productive life of solar PV panels. Current temperature sensors possess a long response time and low resolution and accuracy. Advanced fibre-optic sensors offer distinct advantages of greater accuracy, a more comprehensive range, and a very high sampling rate. The present experimental work focuses on fibre Bragg grating sensor-based solar PV panel temperature monitoring. The unique capabilities of fibre-optic sensors are demonstrated by studying the rapid perturbations in panel temperature over time for indoor and outdoor conditions. The effects of incident radiation flux and the inclination angle on panel temperature are analyzed. Temperature sensitivity of 6 pm/°C is obtained. The results are helpful in dynamic monitoring of panel temperature, understanding the thermal interactions at the microscale level, and streamlining the measured temperature of multiple panels on solar farms. Thus, the proposed advanced method of FBG-based temperature monitoring of solar panels could be helpful to operate an integrated cooling system to improve the performance of solar panels.
AB - Solar photovoltaic (PV) performance is affected by increased panel temperature. Maintaining an optimal PV panel temperature is essential for sustaining performance and maximizing the productive life of solar PV panels. Current temperature sensors possess a long response time and low resolution and accuracy. Advanced fibre-optic sensors offer distinct advantages of greater accuracy, a more comprehensive range, and a very high sampling rate. The present experimental work focuses on fibre Bragg grating sensor-based solar PV panel temperature monitoring. The unique capabilities of fibre-optic sensors are demonstrated by studying the rapid perturbations in panel temperature over time for indoor and outdoor conditions. The effects of incident radiation flux and the inclination angle on panel temperature are analyzed. Temperature sensitivity of 6 pm/°C is obtained. The results are helpful in dynamic monitoring of panel temperature, understanding the thermal interactions at the microscale level, and streamlining the measured temperature of multiple panels on solar farms. Thus, the proposed advanced method of FBG-based temperature monitoring of solar panels could be helpful to operate an integrated cooling system to improve the performance of solar panels.
KW - Fibre bragg grating
KW - Fibre-optic sensor
KW - Photovoltaic
KW - Radiation flux
KW - Solar energy
KW - Temperature sensor
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123861573&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.csite.2022.101834
DO - 10.1016/j.csite.2022.101834
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123861573
SN - 2214-157X
VL - 31
JO - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
JF - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
M1 - 101834
ER -
