Noran Nur Wahida Khalili, Mahmod Othman, Mohd Nazari Abu Bakar and Hamzah Sakidin
Keywords: Solar energy, photovoltaic/thermal, electrical efficiency, thermal efficiency.
Abstract: The world demand of energy is increasing continuously, and solar energy is one of the renewable energy that can be utilized to fulfill the demand. Over the years, there are many researches that have been carried out on hybrid air solar collector. This paper discusses the design and theoretical studies of a photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar collector. Since there is a drop of efficiency of the photovoltaic cells as the operating temperature increases, this study proposes a design of PV/T solar collector with an air-cooling system to improve its overall performance. The aim of this study is to design and analyse the performance of a PV/T air solar collector with fins.