TY - BOOK AU - Zeyad Mohamed Ashraf Serag AU - Hamdy Kandil , AU - Mohamed Salama Abdelhady , TI - Improving the performance of PV panels by oil coating and chimmey effect / PY - 2016/// CY - Cairo : PB - Zeyad Mohamed Ashraf Serag , KW - Chimmey effect KW - Oil coating KW - PV panels N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Garman University - Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research - Department of Mechatronics Engineering N2 - The factors affecting the performance of crystalline photovoltaic (PV) panels are their low efficiency, around 15% to 20% and the decrease of their efficiency with increasing the temperature. The efficiency of the crystalline (PV) panel drops by 0.5%. The objective of this research is to develop new techniques for improving the performance of PV panels. Two techniques are developed to improve the performance of the PV panel UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -