Penambahan Sistem Pendingin Heatsink Untuk Optimasi Penggunaan Reflektor Pada Panel Surya

Abstract

An alternative to increase photovoltaic output power is by increasing the intensity of received light using a reflector. However, the added intensity will increase in the temperature, hence reduce the photovoltaic output power. To optimize the use of reflectors in photovoltaics, a cooling system (i.e. Heatsink) needs to be added. This paper aims to find out the effect of adding a Heatsink cooling system to photovoltaics that equipped with a reflector. Heatsinks are installed at the entire back side of the panel and filled with thermal paste. Observations were made by comparing the photovoltaic system using a reflector without cooling system and the photovoltaic system using a reflector equipped with a Heatsink cooling system. The results show that the photovoltaic with cooling system has 18.26% average temperature decrease and 10.14% average power increase if compared to a photovoltaic system equipped with a reflector without a cooling system.

Keywords

• Photovoltaic
• temperature
• power
• and cooling system
• cooling system