Contribution for a better understanding of the technological sustainability in electrical energy production through photovoltaic cells | Zendy

Rui Pedro Mendes | Zendy; Luís Carrilho Gonçalves | Zendy; Pedro Dinis Gaspar | Zendy

Open Access

Contribution for a better understanding of the technological sustainability in electrical energy production through photovoltaic cells

Author(s) -

Rui Pedro Mendes,

Luís Carrilho Gonçalves,

Pedro Dinis Gaspar

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

renewable energy and power quality journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136

H-Index - 22

ISSN - 2172-038X

DOI - 10.24084/repqj08.489

Subject(s) - photovoltaic system , sustainability , production (economics) , electric potential energy , engineering physics , energy (signal processing) , engineering , electrical engineering , physics , economics , ecology , biology , quantum mechanics , macroeconomics

The conversion of solar energy into electricity reveals a huge importance in the production of "clean" energy , mainly when applied to decentralized production systems (micro-generation). However, there is the need to develop and optimize these processes in order to turn it more sustainable in economic and technological scoops. The main purpose of this work is to study the solar energy conversion into electricity through photovoltaic cells, characterizing the process efficiencies. This study intends to evaluate the energetic and exergetic efficiencies defining them as indicators in the formulation of a sustainability index. All the procedures are in a theoretical scope with an illustrative example in the end of this work.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research