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Document Type

Thesis

Publication Date

4-18-2024

Disciplines

Energy Systems | Heat Transfer, Combustion | Physics

Advisor

Dean Langley

Abstract

This thesis examined radiative cooling on a small scale using a hybrid photovoltaic/radiative cooling model system, to determine its efficiency for large-scale power generation. Radiative cooling is concerned with heat transfer and this thesis’s main goal is to harness that heat energy to produce electricity. The efficiency of the system was tested using various light sources at different angles and total power output. The testing was done several times and there proved to be a proportional relationship between light intensity and current output. However, due to the performance threshold of the PTEC module, the component of the system used to model radiative cooling affected its efficiency. Therefore, based on the data radiative cooling cannot be used on a large scale unless harnessing and storing thermal energy is improved.

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