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Efficiency and environmental stability of TiO2 based solar cells for green electricity production

  • Mahendra Singh , Deepak Singh , Vinay Mishra , Vijay Singh , Sunita Singh , Rahul Dev and Dhananjay Singh ORCID logo EMAIL logo
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International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
From the journal International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering Volume 22 Issue 1

Abstract

Environmental sustainability and energy security are two major issues, which are globally attracting the attention of the scientists and researchers. The sustainable development goal (SDG-7) calls for sustainable and modern energy for all. Solar energy has great potential and it can be transformed in other usable forms through various energy harvesting technologies. The photovoltaic cell utilizes solar radiation to generate green electricity. Photovoltaic cells follow the mechanism of photon to electron conversion for electricity production. Recently, organic solar cell, which is a type of photovoltaic cells, has shown potential to overcome demerits faced by photovoltaic cell like low flexibility, weight and environmental biodegradability issues. Dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is a kind of the organic solar cell. A (DSSC) has been fabricated using Punica Granatum (pomegranate juice) as sensitizer. The maximum efficiency of the solar cell is observed to be 0.16 %. The effect of various climatic parameters the performance of fabricated dye sensitized solar cell has also been evaluated and reported.

Keywords: dye sensitized solar cells; efficiency; SDG; TiO2 ; green electricity
Corresponding author: Dhananjay Singh, Department of Chemical Engineering, IET, Lucknow, 226021, India, E-mail:

Funding source: No funding is available

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to extend their gratitude to Institute of Engineering and Technology Lucknow & AKTU Lucknow for providing research place and other testing facilities.

  1. Research ethics: No ethical issue is associated with this article.

  2. Author contributions: M.S. wrote the main manuscript and carried out most of the experiments and data analysis. D.S., V.S. and V.M. reviewd the progress of experiments, manuscript writing and participated in methodology discussions. S.S. and R.D. prepared the supplementary information. D.S. role was to supervise the process and analysis, along with the mechanism discussions. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

  3. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  4. Research funding: No research funding is available.

  5. Data availability: No supplementary information is available.

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Received: 2023-06-09
Accepted: 2023-11-17
Published Online: 2023-12-08

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