
••Photovoltaic panel cooling with the use of flat plate heat exchanger.••. . Ac heat exchanger top surface area (m2)Ach channel cross-sectional area (m2)Cp . . Solar energy can be used in a variety of ways to generate electricity. One way is to use solar thermal power systems which utilize solar energy to raise the temperature of a working fluid. . A ten-channel layout was selected as the basis for further optimization. Modifications were made to several design parameters of the base heat exchanger and their influence on the. . Two approaches were used to validate the current model in addition to the experimental validation of the final design. First, the temperatures predicted by the current CFD mod.