Study On New Design Techniques for Enhancement of Solar Panel Efficiency

Recent trends in solar power generation such as solar panel design with consideration of light reflector arrangements pays more attention to enhance the solar panel efficiency compared to other methodologies such as maximum power tracking techniques (MPTT). All these existing maximum power tracking techniques are concentrated on the tracking of the sun direction to increase cell efficiency with the help of dynamic operation involvement. All these techniques are limited to attain a maximum or nearly maximum efficiency of the solar panel efficiency. The design concept of solar panels with light reflector arrangements provides enhanced solar cell efficiency compared to maximum power tracking (MPT) techniques with the static response of operation. Also, the stressed light reflection concept may provide significant support to extract maximum cell efficiency. This confirms that the design consideration of solar panels with light reflector arrangements compared to other MPT techniques results in enhanced solar panel efficiency. Not only the enhanced panel efficiency, but it also results in less maintenance cost due to no rotational parts are involved. But the major drawback of this type of arrangement is its aging problem of the solar panels. This light reflector arrangement generates concentrated heat generation on the solar panels which meet the cell temperature coefficient fast. Therefore, an alternative design modification to avoid this concentrated heat generation makes superior design considerations for the solar panels compared to existing panel designs. So, the authors are tried to propose the innovative methodology to obtain enhanced solar cell efficiency using the heatless light reflection method. Hence, this paper aims to discuss the alternative design modifications of solar panels with light reflector arrangements to nullify the aging problem of the panel and enhance the overall solar panel efficiency. Also, this paper presents the summary of the efforts carried out on the concept of solar panels with light reflector arrangements and its obtained outputs.