The Effect of Ground Temperature on the Operating Temperature of Solar Photovoltaic Module Using FEM Analysis

To understand the performance losses and deterioration brought on by thermal conditions, the operational temperature of photovoltaic modules must be measured. The environmental factors like solar irradiation, ambient temperature, wind speed and direction, module design and orientation, and ground temperature have an impact on the determination of the operating temperature of the module. In this work, a three-dimensional thermal model of p-Si solar photovoltaic module has been developed in Hypermesh software, and the effect of ground temperature on the operating temperature of p-Si photovoltaic module has been simulated on the ANSYS Fluent Software. The simulation results show that there is linear impact of the ground temperature on the module temperature. Additionally, it has been observed that the effect of the wind speed on the operating temperature is nonlinear and it is inversely related.