Efficiency Improvement of Solar Cells by Coating with Chlorophyll and Different Types of Oils

Abstract

In this paper, two techniques are used to experimentally improve the solar cells efficiency by coating the outer surface of the panels with oil and chlorophyll. Coating the outer glass of solar cell with small layer of oil improves the value of sunlight absorbed by panel and accordingly the efficiency of the panels dramatically increases due to high transmissivity of some types of oils, especially vacuum oils. In this experiment, four types of oils are examined such as vacuum oil, engine oil, abro oil used as a mineral oils and sunflower oil examined as a natural oil. During the experiment, it has been observed the efficiency of the solar cell panels that have been coated with vacuum oil (labovac oil) increased by 11.28% compared to the efficiency of the same panel before coating. Similarly, coating the outer surface of solar panel with 1.5 mm layer of chlorophyll improves the efficiency by 4.17% as chlorophyll absorb a wide range of sunlight falling on surface of the photovoltaic panel and thus increase its efficiency.