Experimental Study Of Comparative Performance Between Three Types Of Photovoltaic Modules In Static And Dynamic Installations Under Penang Climatic Condition
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2012-02
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Ghazali, Muhammad Azhar
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This study response to the Malaysia’s Building Integrated Photovoltaic (MBiPV)
Program, a collaboration program between Malaysian Government and United
Nation Development Program (UNDP) to find ways to increase the efficiencies of
photovoltaic technologies and to ensure it is applicable in Malaysian climate
condition. With the solar tracking system, the efficiency of photovoltaic module is
expected to increase under Malaysian climate condition. This study focuses on the
three common types of solar panels available in the Malaysian market and compares
the performance between dynamic (single axis time/date tracking) and static
photovoltaic installation’s system according to each type of photovoltaic panels. The
dynamic system in this experiment was designed to support the three types of PV
panels which allowed it to move with single degree of freedom (horizontally)
according to the sun’s orientation (sunrise to sunset) from east to west. The
movement of PV panels allowed it to set perpendicularly toward the sun insolation
(incoming solar radiation) so that solar rays can be optimized from morning until
evening. While in static system, each type of photovoltaic panels was set 0o
horizontally. The study found that poly-crystalline and mono-crystalline
photovoltaic panel has shown better performance in dynamic system.
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Photovoltaic cells