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    1. The students are working on enhancing heat transfer in photovoltaic cells by using an air duct and fins under the supervision of Prof. Sai Srinadh. 2. Originally, they planned to use phase change materials but were advised that PCMs would not work if the surroundings were hotter than the melting point. 3. They have started analyzing the solar cell in ANSYS and researching how air flow impacts solar cells. They have learned how to model geometries, apply materials properties, define boundaries, and mesh in ANSYS. Future work includes CFD analysis of air flow and optimizing fin parameters and air speed.

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    1. The students are working on enhancing heat transfer in photovoltaic cells by using an air duct and fins under the supervision of Prof. Sai Srinadh. 2. Originally, they planned to use phase change materials but were advised that PCMs would not work if the surroundings were hotter than the melting point. 3. They have started analyzing the solar cell in ANSYS and researching how air flow impacts solar cells. They have learned how to model geometries, apply materials properties, define boundaries, and mesh in ANSYS. Future work includes CFD analysis of air flow and optimizing fin parameters and air speed.

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    1. The students are working on enhancing heat transfer in photovoltaic cells by using an air duct and fins under the supervision of Prof. Sai Srinadh. 2. Originally, they planned to use phase change materials but were advised that PCMs would not work if the surroundings were hotter than the melting point. 3. They have started analyzing the solar cell in ANSYS and researching how air flow impacts solar cells. They have learned how to model geometries, apply materials properties, define boundaries, and mesh in ANSYS. Future work includes CFD analysis of air flow and optimizing fin parameters and air speed.

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    Monthly Continuous Evaluation Report

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    1. The students are working on enhancing heat transfer in photovoltaic cells by using an air duct and fins under the supervision of Prof. Sai Srinadh. 2. Originally, they planned to use phase change materials but were advised that PCMs would not work if the surroundings were hotter than the melting point. 3. They have started analyzing the solar cell in ANSYS and researching how air flow impacts solar cells. They have learned how to model geometries, apply materials properties, define boundaries, and mesh in ANSYS. Future work includes CFD analysis of air flow and optimizing fin parameters and air speed.

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    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,WARANGAL

    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT


    B.Tech. IV/IV Project(2020-21)
    Format
    Monthly Continuous Evaluation Report( To be submiited on 1st of every month)

    1. Names of the students: 1. Shounak Nandan Kossambe-173254


    2. Rajat Bokade-173145
    3.Mukesh Kumar-173233

    2. Supervisor's Name: Prof..SAI SRINADH

    3. ProposedTopic/Title: Enhancement of heat transfer in Photovoltaic Cells By Usage of Air


    Duct and Fins.

    WORK PROGRESS
    The reason for change in our method of cooling from phase change material to provision of air
    channel for doing forced convection is because, we talked to Jayakrishna Sir about the project
    idea and he pointed a slight shortcoming in our approach. He said that Phase Change Material
    would melt and would not be able to absorb any heat in case if surroundings were at a higher
    temperature than the melting point of the PCM.
    We have started our analysis of solar cell, and inorder to achieve that we drawn the cad
    geometry in the Design Modeler of Ansys. We have further researched on the topic of provision
    of air flow on solar cell. Till now we have learnt the following in Ansys software.
     Create a sketch in a plane.

     Extrude(Add material or Frozen) it and carry out various body operations on it.

     Use boolean to provide hollow cavity within the body.

     Provide necessary properties like density,Thermal Heat Capacity and Conductivity to the
    different parts of materials that we will be using in the PV cell.

     Select the various faces of the part to provide Named Selections.This will be utilized to
    specify the fluid domain and the necessary boundary conditions later on in Ansys Fluent.

     Import the Part to mesh. And check for the mesh quality such as Aspect ratio, Skewness
    and orthogonal quality, which are the parameters that determine whether the mesh is
    good or bad.

     We are yet to go through the workings of Ansys Fluent and the postprocessor to carry
    out the necessary simulations.
     Calculate irradiation at a particular location from formulae as described in the textbook
    Solar Engineering of thermal Processes.
     Carry out thermal analysis of PV cell model in ansys.
     A temperature plot was obtained for radiation and convection boundary conditions.
     The temperature plot was first obtained for PV cell without fins.
     Then the temperature ditstribution was obtained for various spacings between the fins.
     It was observed that with increase in spacings between fins the temperature distribution reduces.
     Then the temperature plot was obtained for various lengths of fins.
     It was observed that with increase in the lengths of the fins the temperature distribution reduces.
     Then the temperature plot was obtained for various thicknesses.
     It was observed that with the increase in thicknesses the temperature distribution increases.
    Future Work
     Carry out CFD analysis inside an air duct using Ansys Fluent.
     Use the data from Ansys fluent to Ansys Thermal and obtain the value of optimum speed of air
    for optimized fin parameters.

    Signature of supervisor with date

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