Performance investigation of heat insulation solar glass for low-carbon buildings

Thermal performance investigation of heat insulation solar glass: A comparative experimental study

“…HISG consists of transparent a-Si PV cells with an energy conversion efficiency of about 9%. Under a solar intensity of 850 W/m 2 , over 40 W electrical power is generated from HISG samples with a glazing area of 0.66 m 2 [22]. It also needs to be reported that HISG is capable of producing much more energy than it consumes as clearly demonstrated in our recent research carried out for the climatic conditions of Taiwan [22].…”

“…This output can be verified by the recent report of Pilkington [23] on the U-values of commercial conventional glazing products given in Table 1. It is also unequivocal in the recent works in literature [20,22]. The accuracy of the measurements is also considered within the scope of this work, and the evaluation is performed through a simple uncertainty analysis presented by Holman [24].…”

“…Besides its ability of power generation, it is a good sound insulator. Also, it has a self-cleaning feature through its special coating on the external glazing [21,22]. In addition to these, HISG has a remarkable potential to reduce energy consumption in buildings as a consequence of its superior thermal insulation property, which constitutes the objective of this paper.…”

Aerogel-Assisted Support Pillars for Thermal Performance Enhancement of Vacuum Glazing: A CFD Research for a Commercial Product

“…They have achieved a U -value of 0.40 W/m 2 K from a vacuum tube window sample with tube diameter of 60 mm. The fabrication cost of the sample has been found to be comparable with other novel glazing products such as heat insulation solar glass [33][34][35][36]. Eames [12] has presented an overview of vacuum glazing technology and outlines the future prospects through the latest reports on commercial products.…”

Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Performance of Calender Roll Structure in Glass Calendering

“…Photovoltaic calendered glass as a high-end products in the glass products, Has a high transmittance and low reflectivity characteristics of the sun, has been widely used in the production of solar photovoltaic cells, used to improve the performance of solar cells [1,2]. For a long time, the glass molding process is mainly rely on the producers through repeated debugging and correction can get the production capacity, Photovoltaic glass iscontinuous large-scale production, once the furnace is ignited, the daily consumption is huge, so the cost of repeated debugging on the production line is quite high, the quality of this method is difficult to guarantee, and the product development cycle is long, the product yield is very low, which greatly affected the photovoltaic glass product quality and production costs.…”