An enviroeconomic review of the solar PV cells cooling technology effect on the CO2 emission reduction

The main aim of this article is an enviroeconomic analysis of the photovoltaic (PV) cooling impact on the CO2 emission in the environment. For better understanding, the significance of photovoltaic cooling technology, different techniques of cooling of PV cell has been reviewed, accurately. Then, the effect of cooling of PV cell on the environmental cost of CO2 emission reduction in the atmosphere has been studied by examining a number of cases included different techniques of cooling of PV cell. Outcomes reveal that in the water cooling technique, water pressure augmentation has a positive impact on the cell performance. As well, the cell electrical efficiency improvement due to the use of hybrid cooling techniques such as hybrid microchannel-jet impingement, hybrid PCMs, and hybrid nano-PCM is greater than a state that each of them is used, separately. Additionally, the enviroeconomic analysis shows that the use of hybrid nano-PCM, hybrid PCM, hybrid PCM-water, respectively is more effective to the environmental cost of CO2 emission decrement in the atmosphere than separate use of each technique.