New Building Cladding System Using Independent Tilted BIPV Panels with Battery Storage Capability

Kim, Amy A.; Reed, D. A.; Choe, Youngjun; Wang, Shuoqi; Recart, Carolina

doi:10.3390/su11205546

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Section: Technologies Of Building Integrated Photovoltaicsmentioning

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“…Kim et al [29] created a well-developed design of PV cladding systems that will make a significant contribution to meeting the targets for renewable energy and zero-energy building. Normally, photovoltaic panels built into buildings are vertically oriented with no batteries attached [29]. However, this study proposed a BIPV system for each location that is linked to one or more storage batteries, making the system independent of the other generation of power in the building and referred to as the "Perma-Power Connection Building" cladding feature (Figure 5).…”

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Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) in Southeast Asian Countries: Review of Effects and Challenges

2021

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Fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation in the building sector is at an all-time high in line with the country’s economic growth. This scenario will increase the global CO2 emissions and large carbon footprints, thus leading to global warming. In recent years, most of the research related to the building sector has focused on the development of new techniques to reduce buildings’ energy consumption through energy conservation, energy efficiency, and the implementation of renewable energy technologies. The introduction of photovoltaic (PV) technology has become the most prominent renewable energy (RE) that can be integrated into building components. Even though the Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) has been available for decades, but its implementation in Southeast Asian countries has not gained widespread acceptance compared to European countries and other parts of Asia. This paper aims to investigate the effects and challenges of BIPV implementation in Southeast Asian Countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines), focusing on climate effects, the initial cost of PV technology, government policies, and initiatives. An in-depth literature review from past research, policies, and reports taken between 2016 to 2021 has been conducted and found that the environmental parameters directly influence the performance of BIPV systems and affect efficiency. This study pointed at Feed-in Tariff (FiT), policies and initiatives offered by the government in Southeast Asian countries are not beneficial and discourage building owners to adopt the BIPV technology or any other RE technology. Governments should revise the current policies to promote and attract more building owners to take part in the efforts to minimize CO2 emissions from the building industry.

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Section: Technologies Of Building Integrated Photovoltaicsmentioning

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Section: Technologies Of Building Integrated Photovoltaicsmentioning

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Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) in Southeast Asian Countries: Review of Effects and Challenges

2021

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“…Unfortunately, increasing the robustness of this legacy system through hardening has limited effects (Alexander‐Bloch, 2012). More recently, it has been found that greater robustness through increased redundancy is possible through permanent continuous onsite power generation coupled with multiple small storage batteries (Kim, Reed, Choe, Wang, & Recart, 2019; Wang, Kim, & Reed, 2016). While complete independent power sourcing generation onsite is not possible yet for most buildings, the capability of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) and BIPV coupled with multiple independent battery systems is possible to increase energy resiliency to buildings.…”

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“…In this manner, the onsite electric power system would be designed to provide the highest level of HVAC services possible to meet the occupant needs. Our ongoing work with BIPV panels coupled with small storage batteries provides a strategy (Kim et al., 2019). In order to generate and store enough power to meet the minimal occupant needs, multiple panels across the building will need to be employed.…”

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Functionality for Weather Hazards

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2020

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It is estimated that in the United States, people spend 90% of their time in buildings. In order to ensure quality of life for communities, we propose a human-centric design approach to building "functionality." "Functionality" is defined as the set of "essential services" to meet occupant needs for safety and well-being. These services include lighting, heating and cooling, ventilation, water supply, and wastewater management. At present, a multidisciplinary topdown approach exists where owners dictate the building operations to architects. Our central thesis is that a bottom-up approach based on occupant safety and well-being should drive the functionality design process. Research on occupant well-being conducted by social scientists should be considered by architects in creating the building functionality layout. One of the results of this research should be a set of the type and level of services required for wellbeing. Architects and engineers should work together to design physical systems to ensure that the derived acceptable levels of the services not be exceeded for various frequencies of occurrence tied to the weather conditions at the site. In order to make this approach viable, minimal amounts of continuous electric power must be made available such as through building integrated photovoltaic panels. The corresponding onsite power generation and storage needs are therefore a critical aspect of the proposed formulation. It is anticipated that significant interactions during the iterative building design process among the architects and social scientists with the engineering disciplines will change an existing multidisciplinary approach into an interdisciplinary one.

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“…Monteleone et al proposed an adaptive envelope component, namely SLICE (Solar Lightweight Intelligent Component for Envelopes), equipped with high-efficiency photovoltaic cells, and which is a lightweight and stand-alone component for dynamic envelopes [24]. Double-wedge BPPL (Building Perma-Power Link) panels were proposed and analysed in the case of a mid-rise building in Seattle, Washington [25]. Each cladding panel was designed as a stand-alone system, which will be useful for installation, operation, and maintenance.…”

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Improvement of BIPV Efficiency by Application of Highly Reflective Surfaces at the Building Envelope

2021

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The use of concentrated solar irradiation for the improvement of electric generation improvement has been implemented on different scales, mainly in photovoltaic systems. High-concentration Fresnel lenses are widely chosen for this approach in large installations, while low-concentration systems are rather applied in medium-low scales. For the latter, the improvement on electric performance was revealed, even when no solar tracking was implemented. The presented work aims to analyse a low-concentration photovoltaic installation by a numerical approach. First, the reflective surfaces were designed geometrically considering the optimal slope determined for each month. Subsequently, different simulation techniques were used separately for prediction of solar irradiation and energy production. Three criteria were selected to analyze power generation: the highest increase in total annual solar irradiance on panels with reflective surfaces, the highest total annual solar irradiance collected, and the optimal slope of panels for the entire year. The increase in energy was found to not exceed 10% in the winter months. Whereas in the spring and summer months the energy improvement is about 15–20%. Moreover, it was observed that the temperature of the proposed concentration photovoltaic system increased significantly, reaching more than 90 °C, while for traditional PV panels it did not exceed 75 °C.

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New Building Cladding System Using Independent Tilted BIPV Panels with Battery Storage Capability

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) in Southeast Asian Countries: Review of Effects and Challenges

Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) in Southeast Asian Countries: Review of Effects and Challenges

Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Functionality for Weather Hazards

Improvement of BIPV Efficiency by Application of Highly Reflective Surfaces at the Building Envelope

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