Life cycle assessment for a grid-connected multi-crystalline silicon photovoltaic system of 3 kWp: A case study for Mexico

Santoyo-Castelazo, E.; Solano–Olivares, K.; Martínez, E.; Garcia, Emilio; Santoyo, E.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128314

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“…PV solar modules (panels, solar cells, and wafers) and insignificant waste heat emission related to losses of electricity in the system [19]. These results confirm the earlier PV production results presented by Santoyo-Castelazo et al [35], who studied a PV 3 kWp multi-Si module over its entire lifetime.…”

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Life Cycle Assessment Meeting Energy Standard Performance: An Office Building Case Study

Pushkar

Yezioro

2022

Buildings

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Transitioning from fossil to renewable energies, particularly photovoltaic (PV) energy, could influence building design in terms of environmental evaluation. The aim of this study was to rate a typical office building that complies with the Israeli Standard SI5282, Energy Rating of Buildings, and to evaluate it by life cycle assessment (LCA). An office building in Tel Aviv with four exterior wall construction technologies was modeled as follows: (1) a concrete-block-based wall with minimal windows; (2) a concrete-block-based wall with maximal windows; (3) an autoclaved aerated-block-based wall with minimal windows; and (4) an autoclaved aerated-block-based wall with maximal windows. The electricity sources used to support the building’s operational energy were: (i) 31% coal, 56% natural gas, and 13% PV (adopted in 2020); (ii) 8% coal, 57% natural gas, and 35% PV (planned for 2025); and (iii) 100% PV (planned for the future). A two-stage nested mixed analysis of variance was used to simultaneously evaluate the results of six ReCiPe2016 methodologies. The results show that as fossil fuels are replaced by PV energy production, there is a greater need to use LCA methodology in building design in conjunction with energy standards. The energy rating is recommended to be carried out with an environmental assessment of the production stage of construction. Ignoring the LCA results could lead to the misinterpretation of a building's sustainability.

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Life Cycle Assessment Meeting Energy Standard Performance: An Office Building Case Study

Pushkar

Yezioro

2022

Buildings

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“…BIPV modules now on the market are either based on copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) (Ritzen, 2019), cadmium telluride (CdTe) Sun et al, 2020), thin-film technologies like amorphous silicon (a-Si) , or crystalline silicon solar modules (c-Si) (Santoyo-Castelazo et al, 2021). With most technologies, semi-transparency can be accomplished, for example, in curtain wall or skylight applications, by either spacing opaque c-Si solar modules or making the thin-film layer transparent.…”

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Current prospects of building-integrated solar PV systems and the application of bifacial PVs

Abojela¹,

Desa²,

Sabry

2023

Front. Energy Res.

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Building-integrated solar photovoltaic (BIPV) systems have gained attention in current years as a way to recover the building’s thermal comfort and generate sustainable energy in building structures. BIPV systems can provide shade against sunshine while generating ancillary electrical power. Over the last decades, engineers have been trying to improve the efficiency of BIPV systems. BIPV systems with various installation types, including rooftop, balcony, curtain, sunshade, and wall façade types, are being constantly researched and intensively presented for improving power efficiency and reducing air-conditioning use. This work provides an overview of solar BIPV systems and focuses particularly on existing applications of the bifacial type of BIPV systems. The motivation and an overview of BIPV systems are first introduced, followed by the study methodology considered and the contributions. This work discusses PV technologies of bifacial PVs (monocrystalline and polycrystalline bifacial modules), BIPV installation [curtains, rooftop, flat rooftop, transparent faced, balcony windows (transparent), wall opaque facade, flat roof-faced, and skylight sunshade types], simulation and optimization software (simulation software and future trends), zero-energy BIPV technology, and optimization techniques of BIPV systems. Last, suggestion amendments to the current BIPV design that possibly contribute to growing the system’s effectiveness, reliability, and cost as future design theories for the whole system are presented.

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“…Life-cycle impact assessment. The commonly used LCIA methods in the construction sector are Eco-Indicator 99 [19], CML [20], and ReCiPe2016 [21]. ReCiPe2016 was developed based on the other two methods and has comparatively comprehensive and new evaluation indices [22], therefore, we used this method.…”

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Life-Cycle Assessment of Sculptured Tiles for Building Envelopes in Mediterranean Climate

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Life-cycle assessments (LCAs) were conducted to evaluate sculptured cement mortar tiles, proposed by Hershcovich et al. (2021), and conventional cement mortar flat tiles for thermal insulation of a typical residential building in Mediterranean climate. The production (P) and operational energy (OE) stages were compared between the sculptured tiles and the conventional flat tiles. The P stage used Portland cement with 95% clinker (CEM I) and Portland limestone cement with 65% clinker (CEM II). The OE stage used 31% coal, 56% natural gas, and 13% photovoltaic (PV) (adopted in 2020) and 8% coal, 57% natural gas, and 35% PV (planned for 2025). The ReCiPe2016 single-score method was used to assess environmental damage over short (20 years), long (100 years), and infinite (1000 years) time horizons of living pollutants. The results show that the use of sculptured tiles caused environmental damage in the short time horizon and environmental benefits in the long and infinite time horizons in the 2020 scenario, while it led to environmental benefits only in the infinite time horizon in the 2025 scenario.

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Life cycle assessment for a grid-connected multi-crystalline silicon photovoltaic system of 3 kWp: A case study for Mexico

Cited by 44 publications

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Life Cycle Assessment Meeting Energy Standard Performance: An Office Building Case Study

Life Cycle Assessment Meeting Energy Standard Performance: An Office Building Case Study

Current prospects of building-integrated solar PV systems and the application of bifacial PVs

Life-Cycle Assessment of Sculptured Tiles for Building Envelopes in Mediterranean Climate

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