Study of Performance of Photoelectrochemical Cell for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage in Carbol Fuchsin-CTAB-EDTA System

S. L. Meena; Ravi Kumar Bhupesh; Lal Chand Yadav; Kavita Meena

Abstract

Power storage capacity is becoming more necessary as wind and solar power sources rapidly enter the commercial market. The Photoelectrochemical Cell as they are described in the current manuscript are promising energy technologies since they allow for the generation and storage of solar energy. In addition to the requirement for power storage, photoelectrochemical Cell (PEC) are particularly important because these solar devices can produce and store solar power simultaneously. Photoelectrochemical cells use photosensitive substances such as Carbol fuchsin, Surfactant as a cetrimonium bromide (CTAB), and EDTA as a reducing agent to photo electrochemically convert solar energy to electricity. The generated open circuit voltage (Voc) and short circuit photocurrent (Isc) were 870.0 mV and 360.0 μA, respectively, while the cell's highest power was 87.12 μW. The fill factor was 0.27, and the observed conversion efficiency was 1.67%. Photoelectric cells can function at this half-power (43.56 μW) level for 220.0 minutes in terms of storage (performance) of the Solar Cell. On the power supply of the cell, several parameters were found to influence. In this paper, a possible mechanism for the photo-generation of current in Carbol Fuchsin-CTAB-EDTA system has also been hypothesized, based on the redox potential, and provided data