Available online at www.mdl.mazedan.com MTESD www.mazedan.com ©2023 Mazedan International Research Academy www.mazedan.com/mtesd A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC THERMAL (PV/T) SYSTEM WITH SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) SYSTEM MAZEDAN TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN e-ISSN: 2582-8061 Article id-MTESD0401003 Vol-4, Issue-1 Received: 1 Jan 2023 Revised: 28 Jan 2023 Accepted: 3 Feb 2023 SHAIKH MOHAMMED AMMAR; MOHAMMAD SAHIL; KHAN ZUBAIR AHMAD; MAHBOOB AHMED, ADEEL ANSARI, MALIK SHAHZAD MAHVI*, ATIF AHAD Citation: Ammar, S. M., Sahil, M., Ahmad, K. Z., Ahmed, M., Ansari, A., Mahvi, M. S., & Ahad, A. (2023). A Comparative Assessment of Solar Photovoltaic Thermal (PV/T) System with Solar Photovoltaic (PV) System. Mazedan Transactions on Engineering Systems Design, 4(1), 11-15. Abstract A photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) system is associated with a solar thermal collector and a photovoltaic (PV) module. PV/T systems are converting the solar energy in to electricity and thermal energy. Tropical country like India has good potential for applying this technology. In this study, a hybrid system is fabricated by using a polycrystalline silicon module as a solar collector attached with heat exchanger. The comparative study was carried out with same capacity PV module. The results show that the performance of the PV/T system is better than the simple solar PV system. PV/T systems are simple and suitable for electricity generation as well as for low-temperature heating applications. Keywords: Hybrid photovoltaic collector, polycrystalline structure, low-temperature heating 1. INTRODUCTION Everything around us required energy over the years earth population has increases, which led to the increase in energy. Burning of fossil fuel causes global warming and greenhouse effect, which led to the rise in temperature. India’s 80% electricity demand is still being met by coal, oil and solid biomass. As India recovers from a covid -19 pandemic, it is reentering a dynamic period in its energy development. India will soon become the world most populous country and to meet the demand of energy India is focusing towards the sustainable energy source. Solar PV has high installation cost, low operational cost and maintenance cost [1], different types of solar PV systems are globally accepted. Renewable energy technologies are primarily based on Wind, Hydropower, Solar, Geothermal energy sources. Among these available renewable energy sources, Solar based ones have high potential to achieve a significant development with a reduction in carbon emission and energy savings [2]. A photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) integrates solar thermal collector and PV module into single module. In this module, the PV modules generate electrical energy and thermal collector transfer heat from the modules and thus reduces their surface temperature and also improves their efficiency [3, 4, 5]. The installed capacity of solar PV is increasing due to its eco-friendly behaviour (Figure 1). The concept of combining photovoltaic and thermal system is known as0020photovoltaic/thermal system (PV/T) system [6]. In consideration of both the heat and electricity production, a hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) collector is brought to produce at a time the electricity and thermal power. The outputs of PV/T depend on various parameters some as irradiance, wind speed, ambient temperature, flow rate and circulating fluid temperature etc. [7, 8, 9]. The concepts can build an environment with zero-carbon industry process. This concept of cogeneration is not a new, however it has received inadequate attention [10, 11, 12]. Martin Wolf was the first to engineer a flat plate PV/T solar collector system & analyzed the performance of combined PV/T system for domestic applications [13]. PV/T collectors limits it’s use only in relatively less-temperature applications like room heating [14], domestic hot water systems [15], thermal storage [16] desalination [17], in the agricultural industry [18] and pool heating [19], etc. Figure 1 The projection of installation of solar PV in worldwide The combination of these two systems provides various benefits [12] like, 1. PV cell performance and hence its overall efficiency increases, as they can be uniformly cooled through the solar thermal system. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maulana Mukhtar Ahmad Nadvi Technical Campus, Malegaon 423203 *Corresponding author email- rme1405@mnnit.ac.in