Analytical prediction of liquid photovoltaic/thermal flat-plate collector performance [electronic resource].
Published
Washington, D.C : United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, 1979. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
A one-dimensional analysis has been developed that predicts the electrical and thermal efficiencies of a liquid photovoltaic/thermal flat-plate collector - the latter, to within 4 percent. The analysis, agreeing with test measurements, reduces the 15-percent difference between analysis and measured thermal efficiency obtained by the classical analysis of Hottel and Whillier as extended by Florschuetz to PV/T collectors.