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Performance Evaluation of Photovoltaic, Thermoelectric and Direct Cooling based Hybrid for Enhancement in Efficiency

Authors
Vaishali S. Poddar1, *, Mandar G. Ujjainkar2, Narendra B. Dhokey2
1Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Department, National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (NIAMT), Ranchi, 834003, Jharkhand, India
2Metallurgical Engineering Department, COEP Technological University, Pune, 411005, Maharashtra, India
*Corresponding author. Email: vspoddar@niamt.ac.in
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Vaishali S. Poddar
Available Online 31 March 2026.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6239-628-9_31How to use a DOI?
Keywords
photovoltaic; thermoelectric; direct cooling; efficiency; hybrid
Abstract

In the present Photovoltaic (PV) systems, a great deal of research is being done to increase its efficiency. These researches are focused on maximizing the utilization of the solar spectrum by using either suitable PV materials and their combination or PV hybrids. In one of the types of PV hybrid, thermoelectric (TE) is used with the PV at the working temperature of PV. In this study, polycrystalline Si-based PV is hybridized with Bi2Te3 based TE. Both the PV and TE are temperature sensitive and therefore with PV-TE hybrids, direct cooling (DC) is used which is effective to create temperature difference. Hybrid PV/TE/DC configurations are designed using CATIA V5 software and experimental set-up of hybrid PV/1TE/DC (one layer of TE sandwiched between PV and DC), PV/2TE/DC (two TE layers placed cascaded) and PV/3TE/DC (three TE layers placed cascaded) systems are developed. The energy efficiencies of PV/1TE/DC, PV/2TE/DC and PV/3TE/DC are higher than PV alone by 17.8, 18.1 and 29.8% respectively. The polycrystalline PV used alone generated power of 308Wm-2, whereas, PV/1TE/DC, PV/2TE/DC and PV/3TE/DC generate maximum power of around 363Wm-2, 364Wm-2 and 400Wm-2 respectively. There is synergistic effect among PV, TE, and DC in the PV/TE/DC hybrid for power generation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Intelligent Computing, Manufacturing, and Electronics (rTIME 2025)
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Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
31 March 2026
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978-94-6239-628-9
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2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6239-628-9_31How to use a DOI?
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© 2026 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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