Design and performance evaluation of building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPVT) air collector

Abstract

This paper addresses the design and performance evaluation of a novel building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPVT) air collector that is augmented with a fin-type heat sink. The system performance is evaluated through a experimental measurement. Laminated with a fin heat sink, the BIPVT modules are designed for both solar electricity and thermal air collector that offer heat and power consumption of heat pump for space/water heating applications. This makes air stream effectively extract the recovered heat as thermal reuse and PV efficiency consequently enhanced with waste heat removal. The result of BIPVT air collector performance evaluation reveals that the efficiency can achieves up to 56%.Index Terms -building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPVT), solar air collector, fin heat sink,

Review on recent approaches for hybrid PV/T solar technology

“…Other adaptations are implemented with single‐glazed and double‐glazed configurations . Many different design parameters and factors that affect the performance of collectors are the glass‐to‐glass‐type or glass‐to‐tedlar‐type PV configurations in , the climatic conditions , semi‐transparent hybrid PV/T single pass and double pass air collector , air flow rate, heat removal, and fill factor . An attempt to survey the very recent topologies and configurations of the air type of PV/T system is presented in the following section.…”

“…A novel BIPV/T air collector is presented by Tsai where it is augmented with a fin‐type heat sink with a large ratio of depth to spacing width is coated with ALO3 insulating film exhibiting a high thermal conductivity (Figure ). These fins are attached at the rear of troughed BIPV module with the back wall having the same space to the tips of fins.…”