Energy Sources Part A-recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects, Vol.37, No.12, 1318-1322, 2015
The Use of Surfactant in Photo Galvanic Cells for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage: A Sodium Lauryl Sulphate-mannitol-methylene Blue System
The photogalvanic cell containing sodium Lauryl sulphate as micellar species, mannitol as an electron donor, and methylene blue as photo sensitizer has been used for solar energy conversion and storage. The electrical output of the cell was 999.0 mV, 85.0 A, and 849.15 W, respectively, as photopotential, photocurrent, and power at power point of the cell. The current voltage characteristics of the cell have been studied; observed conversion efficiency was 0.2664% and determine fill factor was 0.32. The performance of the cell in the dark was 45.0 min.
Keywords:conversion efficiency;mannitol;methylene blue;photocurrent;photogalvanic cells;photopotential;power point;sodium hydroxide