Comparison of energy performance between PV double skin facades and PV insulating glass units

Wang, Meng; Peng, Jinqing; Li, Nianping; Yang, Hongxing; Wang, Chunlei; Li, Xue; Lü, Tao

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.03.019

Cited by 172 publications

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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.…”

Section: Innovation and Custom Categorymentioning

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.…”

Section: Customization Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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.…”

Section: Innovation and Custom Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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].…”

Section: Architectural Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

Attoye

Aoul

Hassan³

2017

Sustainability

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Technological advancement in Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) has converted the building façade into a renewable energy-based generator. The BIPV façade is designed to provide energy generation along with conventional design objectives such as aesthetics and environmental control. The challenge however, is that architectural design objectives sometimes conflict with energy performance, such as the provision of view and daylight versus maximum power output. In innovative cases, the characteristics of conventional BIPV façades have been modified by researchers to address such conflicts through customization as an emerging trend in BIPV façade design. Although extensive reviews exist on BIPV product types, design integration, adoption barriers and performance issues, research on BIPV customization has not been reviewed as a solution to BIPV adoption. This paper seeks to review the potential of BIPV façade customization as a means of enhancing BIPV adoption. The current paper identifies customization parameters ranging from the customization category, level, and strategies, and related architectural potential along with an assessment of their impact. The findings reflect that elemental and compositional level customization using combined customization strategies provide enhanced BIPV products. These products are well integrated for both energy generation and aesthetic applications with a power output increase of up to 80% in some cases. The paper concludes that a wide range of BIPV adoption barriers such as aesthetics, architectural integration, and performance can be overcome by appropriate BIPV customization.

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Section: Innovation and Custom Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Customization Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Innovation and Custom Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Architectural Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

Attoye

Aoul

Hassan³

2017

Sustainability

107

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“…More recently, Wang et al [17] studied the performance of a PV double skin façade (PV-DSF) and a PV insulating glass (PV-IGU) in a comparative experiment carried on in Hong Kong. The results indicate that the PV-DSF has better performance than PV-IGU in reducing solar heat gains, while it has worse performance regarding thermal insulation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thermal and Electrical Characterization of a Semi-Transparent Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaic Module under Real Operating Conditions

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Dye-sensitized solar cell technology is having an important role in renewable energy research due to its features and low-cost manufacturing processes. Devices based on this technology appear very well suited for integration into glazing systems due to their characteristics of transparency, color tuning and manufacturing directly on glass substrates. Field data of thermal and electrical characteristics of dye-sensitized solar modules (DSM) are important since they can be used as input of building simulation models for the evaluation of their energy saving potential when integrated into buildings. However, still few studies in the literature provide this information. The study presented here aims to contribute to fill this lack providing a thermal and electrical characterization of a DSM in real operating conditions using a method developed in house. This method uses experimental data coming from test boxes exposed outdoor and dynamic simulation to provide thermal transmittance (U-value) and solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) of a DSM prototype. The device exhibits a U-value of 3.6 W/m 2 ·K, confirmed by an additional measurement carried on in the lab using a heat flux meter, and a SHGC of 0.2, value compliant with literature results. Electrical characterization shows an increase of module power with respect to temperature resulting DSM being suitable for integration in building facades.

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