Bayu Sutanto

The University of Manchester · School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Floating photovoltaic (FPV) system offers advantages, such as being free from shading and large open land area, controlling water losses and algae boom, minimising dust pollution, being easy to maintain, and lowering temperature due to water evaporation. In addition, the low operating temperature of solar cells will increase the system's electrical...

p>Penerapan Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Surya (PLTS) membutuhkan lahan/daratan yang memiliki nilai ekonomis, padahal Indonesia merupakan negara tropis yang memiliki potensi energi surya dan negara kepulauan dengan luas sebesar 2/3 berupa perairan dan danau di daratan yang bisa dimanfaatkan untuk pembangkit energi surya. Pemanfaatan PLTS terapung tida...

The utilisation and optimisation of solar energy have a vital role in reducing the global need for conventional fossil energy. Moreover, it is also clean and eco-environmentally energy resources. The photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) hybrid system that combines photovoltaic and photothermal technology is an ideal solution for creating high-efficiency ene...

The increasing global energy demand, limited fossil fuel resources, and environmental issues have optimized renewable energy utilization. Solar energy is an unlimited, accessible, and eco-friendly energy source. However, the broad land requirement is one of the critical problems in developing solar power plants. Floating photovoltaic (PV) is an inn...

p>Energi surya merupakan sumber energi terbarukan yang sangat optimal untuk dikembangkan dan telah menarik banyak perhatian baik dari para peneliti maupun pemerintahan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi sudut kemiringan ( tilt/slope angle ) dan orientasi arah ( azimuth angle ) dari suatu alat pemanen energi surya untuk mendapatkan nil...

High levels of air pollution and energy consumption growth have encouraged all countries to optimize renewable energy potential. Solar energy is one of the abundant renewable energy sources and has attracted the researchers' attention in the last few decades. A concept that has high potential to be implemented as a solar power plant is the floating...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) system has drawn the tremendous attention of researchers and governments in the past recent years. However, operating temperature of PV has major role to its efficiency and lifetime. This paper reported an experiment of aluminum heat sink as a cooling device to reduce the operating temperature and to improve the performance...

An increase in the operating temperature of photovoltaic (PV) panels caused by high levels of solar irradiation can affect the efficiency and lifespan of PV panels. This study uses numerical and experimental analyses to investigate the reduction in the operating temperature of PV panels with an air-cooled heat sink. The proposed heat sink was desig...

The increasing of photovoltaic (PV) panel operating temperature affects the efficiency and durability life of systems. This study aims to investigate the cooling system for floating PV system using computational fluid dynamic (CFD). The loop thermosiphon was applied to the bottom surface of PV at the various irradiance of the sun. Thermosiphon devi...

In this study, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated using double-layer photoanodes consisting of TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) and Zn-doped TiO2 hollow fibers (HFs). The TiO2 HFs were prepared by co-axial electrospinning and used as the light-scattering layer in the DSSC. The thickness variations of the TiO2 NP and Zn-doped TiO2 HF photoan...

This article aims to numerically analyze the cooling system of photovoltaic device using mixture multiphase model. Aluminum oxide (Al2O3)-water nanofluids at various concentration of 0, 0.5, 1 and 2 vol.% were used as cooling fluid for photovoltaic module. The constant and uniform heat flux of 800 W/m² was applied on photovoltaic (PV) module and th...

Nanostructured zinc oxide (ZnO) materials have been of interest for researchers because of their elemental abundance, nontoxicity, and wide range of applications. Furthermore, ZnO characteristics can be tuned via doping (e.g. using aluminum (Al)) in order to enhance their properties. In this work, Aldoped ZnO (AZO) nanofibers were synthesized by el...

Dye-sensitized solar cells(DSSCs) based on natural sensitizers have become a topic of significant research because of their urgency and importance in the energy conversion field and the following advantages: ease of fabrication, low-cost solar cell, and usage of nontoxic materials. The natural sensitizer in DSSCs is responsible for the absorption o...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of acidity on the energy level of curcumin dye. The natural dye curcumin was synthesized from Curcuma longa L. using a simple extraction technique. The purification of curcumin dye was conducted in a column of chromatography and its characteristics were studied. Next the purified curcumin dy...

The purpose of this research is to produce Al-doped ZnO (AZO) nanofibers in order to enhance the performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC). AZO nanofiber semiconductor was manufactured by electrospinning process of Zinc Acetate Dehydrate (Zn(CH3COO)2) solution and precursor of Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA). The doping process of Al was built by dis...