Heat Transfer Enhancement in Hybrid PV/T Solar Panels Using TiO2-Cu/Water and TiO2-Ag/Water Hybrid Nanofluids

This study presents a 3D numerical analysis of heat transfer in a hybrid nanofluid within the tube of a hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar panel. The numerical simulations were conducted using the Fluent 6.3.26 software. The hybrid nanofluids considered in this work are composed of TiO<inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf>-Cu/water and TiO<inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf>-Ag/water suspensions. The properties of these hybrid nanofluids are influenced by the type, and concentration of nanoparticles. Key dependent parameters in this study include the Reynolds number, thermal efficiency, and the temnerature of the PV/T comnonents.