Strategies for effective cooling of photovoltaic panels integrated with solar chimney

Summary

Numerical investigation of a hybrid solar chimney power plant with photovoltaic panels on the collector floor and a bell-mouth collector entrance. Pairing a converging collector channel with a diverging chimney raised airflow speed at the turbine by about 71% and cooled the PV panels by 8–12 °C, which more than tripled the turbine's power output.

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