cooling system to improve the efficiency of PV array. The results
showed that the efficiency of solar cells varied from 8.35% to 11.46%
without cooling system and reached the values of 12.26% up to
13.27% with cooling system [11]. Otherwise, the temperature of the
solar cells can rise up to 70 C, which allow the deterioration of
solar cells minimizing its life and getting a low efficiency [12]. For
this, the authors tried to remove excess heat generated by solar
cells to get good performance of solar cells. In the other hand,
thermal behaviors of a hybrid PV/TEM system integrating a pin heat
sink were investigated. In particular case, when integrating the heat
sink under condition of natural convection, the whole PV/TEM
system was cooled better that using the PV only with heat sink
module and the cooling efficiency is better [13].
One of the most problems of using the PV systems in Saudi
Arabia is the high ambient temperature which can reach the value
of 55 C in summer months. So, this will increase the solar cells
temperature and affect the performance of PV panels. For this, we
propose the hybrid system solar cell/thermoelectric module, not
only to cool the solar cell but also to avoid the heat generated by the
other side of thermoelectric module.