Planar solar panel design with planar reflection support-electricity production and efficiency analysis

The energy consumption in all the countries of the world is increasing day by day and this causes an increase for demand and interest on the renewable energy resources at the same rate. Using the current energy in the best way and searching for different energy sources have become an important field of study for the countries. Studies on this area also continue in our country which is lucky in terms of solar energy. Within the scope of this thesis, firstly a general literature search has been made about solar energy, solar energy plants and applications, different system technologies and the system to be implemented. The research and development studies, system elements, advantages and disadvantages, world reserves of materials used in cell making, efficiency and comparison of cells done from the discovery of photovoltaic technology to today are explained in detail. In this study, components of the designed and produced system are briefly explained. Effect of reflected rays on photovoltaic panel was observed with reflector effect and comparison of reflected ray with direct incoming ray was made. Comparison of system following the sun and fixed system at appropriate angle was made. Also, for the direct and reflected ray, exact efficiency of theoretical and experimental work of moving and fixed system was calculated and compared. Keywords; Photovoltaic System, PV Technology, Solar Cell, Reflected Radiation, Planar Reflection, Reflector, Panel Efficiency.