Temperature and voltage control of photovoltaic solar cell panel for hybrid cars applications

Other Title(s)

السيطرة و تنظيم درجة الحرارة و الفولتية للخلايا الشمسية الكهروضوئية لاستخدامها في السيارات الهجينة

Dissertant

al-Hammad, Yahya Ali Isa

Thesis advisor

Muhammad, Waka Farman

Comitee Members

al-Ubaydi, Qasim Musa
al-Nuaymi, Ibrahim Izz al-Din
Ababinah, Muhammad Khalil

University

Philadelphia University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Department of Mechatronics Engineering

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2016

English Abstract

The Hybrid car is considered to be an effective solution to retrieve the amount of wasted energy by retrieving the kinetic energy when using brakes, driving downhill, or stopping.

Therefore, the hybrid car can be utilized to decrease the use of global fuel consumption and protect the environment from extra pollution.

In this work, a proposed model using both of the thermoelectric cooler modules and thermoelectric generator modules (TEC-TEG) is implemented.

This model is appropriate for cooling the photovoltaic panel to increase about 60% of the output power when the temperature falls from 100oC to 20 oC.

The Output power will be used as an auxiliary electrical energy in hybrid cars applications.

Thermoelectric modules are selected because they rarely require maintenance, and they do not produce operation noise.

In addition, the weight of these modules is light, and they are interfacing easily with hybrid car applications.

Thermoelectric modules are durable, highly-efficient and their cost is low and requires small spice.

Wasted heat energy from the exhaust system will be exploited based on Peltier effect using TEG modules that are fixed on the exhaust system to power thermo electric cooler.

TEC modules are also used to cool down and improve the efficiency of a solar panel fixed on the car's roof.

TEC and TEG modules are semiconductor junctions which primarily convert the voltage differential into temperature differential and vice versa. The main contribution of deriving the mathematical model for current control that drives the TEG module is to power the TEC module and achieve the optimal current.

As a consequence, achieving the optimal current will in its turn improve the coefficient of performance (COP) and thus increase the solar panel efficiency.

Moreover, the variation in the output power due to the variation of panel temperature and irradiance for the photovoltaic panel is investigated. Control system will be tested using Matlab simulation by making a comparison between the case when the TEC-TEG are directly combined with each other and when they are used in the control system based on the mathematical model.

The relationship between COP vs.

current for two cases showed that the area of improvement using this control system has included all operation conditions for internal composition engine.

Therefore, this technique is the most suitable for use in hybrid cars when adding a solar cell panel.

Finally, throughout this thesis, Matlab simulations are conducted to analyze different suggested scenarios.

Main Subjects

Mechanical Engineering

No. of Pages

36

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-725534