Energy performance investigation of nanofluid?based concentrated photovoltaic / <scp>thermal?thermoelectric</scp> generator hybrid system

Nanofluid can be used in a CPV/T solar collector to boost electrical and thermal performances as this technology has drawn great attention from researchers over the last decades. In system, amount of collected heat could significantly higher than power. Combining thermoelectric generator (TEG) nanofluid-based system may result better performance alone. present work, CPV/T-TEG hybrid with cooling channel was designed tested, obtained compared conventional methods [ie, natural (CPV/TEG) water (WCPV/T-TEG) methods]. At optimum value concentration, C = 14.6, concentrated photovoltaic/thermal-thermoelectric (NCPV/T-TEG) configuration found ~89% standard PV modules. For same above ~13.9% ~8.4% CPV/TEG WCPV/T-TEG configurations, respectively. addition, overall energy NCPV/T-TEG by 4.98% system. The produce 92.47%, 41.06%, 8.8% daily exergy cell, CPV/TEG, WCPV/T-TEG, Overall, proposed design potential for further development high-concentration systems.