Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Field Performance in Tropical Climatic Condition: A case study

摘要

Dye-sensitized solar cell technology commonly known as DSSC appears to be very well suited for integration into greenhouse glazing systems due to their characteristics of transparency, color tuning and manufacturing directly on glass substrates. The condition and performance of this material are subjected mainly on the location of installation where the sun radiation is a crucial factor to be considered. This study analyses the behavior of dye solar cells in real-life tropical weather conditions from a varying weather of mildly warm to hot sunny and to wet rainy conditions. Four units of experimental Red colored DSSC module (DSS SERIO 3550W19), Solaronix, Switzerland have been installed in series at the Faculty of Engineering, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. The observation is based on the Solar Module Analyzer (PROVA 210) data logging device for 5 days at 10 min intervals. The effect of different weather conditions on the cell performance is quantitatively investigated by using correlations coefficients of sun radiation (G) to cell performance (I, V parameters) which produces the expected annual energy yield.