Design and performance evaluation of building integrated PVT and heat pump water heating (BIPVT/HPWH) system

Author

Huan-Liang Tsai ; Chieh-Yen Hsu ; Chao-Yia Yang

Author_Institution

Da-Yeh Univ., Chang-Hua, Taiwan

fYear

2013

fDate

16-21 June 2013

Abstract

This paper presents the design and performance evaluation of a building integrated photovoltaic/thermal and heat pump water heater (BIPVT/HPWH) system. The system performance is evaluated using the proposed BIPVT/HPWH model with a user-friendly graphic user interface like Simulink block libraries. Integrating with a HPWH system, the BIPVT modules are designed for both solar electricity and thermal collector that offer heat and power consumption of heat pump for water heating. This makes refrigerant efficiently evaporated by solar energy and PV efficiency consequently enhanced with waste heat removal by refrigerant. The results of performance evaluation reveal that the average coefficient of performance (COP) achieves up to 6.7.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; graphical user interfaces; power engineering computing; pumps; solar absorber-convertors; solar heating; waste heat; BIPVT modules; BIPVT-HPWH model; BIPVT-HPWH system; PV efficiency; Simulink block libraries; average coefficient-of-performance; building integrated PVT system; building integrated photovoltaic-thermal system; graphic user interface; heat consumption; heat pump water heating system; power consumption; refrigerant; solar electricity; solar energy; thermal collector; waste heat removal; Electricity; Heat pumps; Photovoltaic systems; Refrigerants; Resistance heating; Solar heating; Water heating; building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPVT); coefficient of performance (COP); heat pump water heater (HPWH);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2013 IEEE 39th

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744272

Filename

6744272