Experimental and numerical results for a building-integrated photovoltaics test facility

Author

Athienitis, A. ; Poissant, Y. ; Collins, M. ; Liao, Lei

Author_Institution

Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1718

Lastpage

1721

Abstract

The results of an experimental and simulation study of a double facade with integrated photovoltaic panels are presented and analyzed. The system consists of a double facade with integrated photovoltaic panels at the bottom part. Air enters from the bottom through an intake, gets heated as it flows upwards in the cavity, driven by a fan and buoyancy, and finally enters the HVAC system as preheated fresh air. Experimental and numerical results show that a combined thermal-electric efficiency of the system could exceed 70%. CFD simulations are employed to determine accurately heat transfer coefficients needed for energy calculations.

Keywords

HVAC; building integrated photovoltaics; computational fluid dynamics; heat transfer; power engineering computing; CFD simulations; HVAC system; building-integrated photovoltaics test facility; combined thermal-electric efficiency; heat transfer coefficients; photovoltaic panels; Building integrated photovoltaics; Computational fluid dynamics; Heat transfer; Photovoltaic cells; Power generation; Solar power generation; Solar radiation; Temperature; Test facilities; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005. Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8707-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2005.1488480

Filename

1488480