Operation behaviour of roof installed photovoltaic modules

Author

Knaupp, Werner

Author_Institution

Zentrum fur Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

13-17 May 1996

Firstpage

1445

Lastpage

1448

Abstract

Photovoltaic energy in the building environment is a very interesting application. On existing building roofs, the installation of photovoltaic generators is a common mounting configuration. It is important to assess and predict the operational behaviour regarding energy output, power rating and critical operation limits of such modules. This contribution summarizes some detailed experimental and theoretical examinations regarding the operational behaviour of roof-installed PV power system modules. Reverse ventilation was analyzed on the basis of buoyancy forces and pressure loss mechanisms. The correlations were transferred to a computer program PVROOF and verified in the ZSW test site, Germany. Experimental and simulation results regarding the influence of roof cover and the distance between the roof and the PV module are shown. With such results, roof-mounted PV power system installations can be optimized with respect to electrical and thermal energy output

Keywords

electronic engineering computing; photovoltaic power systems; power system analysis computing; power system measurement; semiconductor device models; semiconductor device testing; software packages; solar cell arrays; solar cells; PVROOF software; buoyancy forces; computer simulation; critical operation limits; energy output; performance testing; photovoltaic generators; power rating; pressure loss mechanisms; reverse ventilation; roof-mounted PV power systems; solar cell modules; Computational modeling; Insulation; Photovoltaic systems; Resistance heating; Solar heating; Solar power generation; Temperature measurement; Testing; Tiles; Ventilation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1996., Conference Record of the Twenty Fifth IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3166-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1996.564407

Filename

564407