Assessment of energy performance of semi-transparent PV insulating glass units using a validated simulation model

Wang, Meng; Peng, Jinqing; Li, Nianping; Lu, Lin; Ma, Tao; Yang, Hongxing

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2016.06.120

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“…Simulation studies are commonly used for this purpose including parameters such as climate, building type, glazing properties, and even the geometry factors and shadings. Such methodologies, using validated models 10,11 or not [12][13][14][15][16][17] , have been proposed by many authors for various PV glazing technologies and climates. Otherwise, overall emery performance has been evaluated separately.…”

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Overall energy assessment and integration optimization process of semitransparent PV glazing technologies

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Karamanis

Peng

et al. 2018

Progress in Photovoltaics

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In order to reduce the building's energy demand, different glass innovative technologies are currently under intensive research and development. However, applicability of a particular technology requires its extensive environmental and energy characterization in building integration. In this work, overall performance (thermal, optical, and electrical) of semitransparent PV windows from different technologies has been assessed and compared with conventional windows. Characterization studies include both field measurements and numerical simulations and reveal the energy saving potential of PV windows on the overall energy demand of an office room and Mediterranean climate conditions. Finally, building integration is optimized by maximizing energy efficiency while keeping acceptable indoor visual comfort for different PV technology, ratio of the glazing surface replaced by PV windows (cover ratio), and orientation.

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confidence: 99%

Overall energy assessment and integration optimization process of semitransparent PV glazing technologies

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Karamanis

Peng

et al. 2018

Progress in Photovoltaics

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“…Regarding the customization level, four were purely elemental [51,52,80,82], eight were compositional at the module-level [64,81,83,88,89,91,92,95], and five were compositional at the façade-level [17,53,81,84,94]; eight studies combined all of the levels [55,82,[85][86][87]90,93,96]. Comparing elemental versus compositional level, studies can be more easily carried out using conventional PV modules without the requirement of a custom-designed module.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the investigated cases, three were SPV [64,85,94], four were MCF [51,52,80,89], four were EDM [53,63,81], and 14 combined two or more strategies [17,55,[82][83][84][86][87][88][90][91][92][93]95,96]. Clear evidence thus presents a combination of various strategies is required to achieve BIPV façade customization.…”

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“…Statistically, nine of the cases focused on design of a custom BIPV product [51,52,55,[80][81][82][83]89,95], only four focused on a customization in the integration process [63,81,84,94], while 12 combined both product and integration concerns in their research [17,53,63,64,[85][86][87][88][90][91][92][93]. This suggests that most custom BIPV façade products are designed with attention on the potential for proper architectural integration.…”

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“…With regards to the added functions, [17] studies addressed thermal control [17,53,63,[83][84][85][86][87][88][89][91][92][93][94][95], [15] addressed aesthetics [17] and, [11] addressed daylighting functionality based on research objective or cell type selection as all a-Si applications permit some degree of light transmission [7,63,64,82,83,[85][86][87]92,95]. Also, three addressed energy savings [53,83,87], four specifically on shading [85][86][87]92], and one on cladding [90] and cost [93].…”

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Assessment of energy performance of semi-transparent PV insulating glass units using a validated simulation model

Cited by 83 publications

References 32 publications

Overall energy assessment and integration optimization process of semitransparent PV glazing technologies

Overall energy assessment and integration optimization process of semitransparent PV glazing technologies

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