PV glazing technologies

Σκάνδαλος, Νικόλαος; Karamanis, D.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.04.145

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“…Reference made to an energy-conscious process design [39] Overview and analysis of current BIPV products: new criteria for supporting the technological transfer in the building sector Possibilities, market options, aesthetic levels; an architectural layering process design approach [43] PV glazing technologies - [36] Building Integrated Photovoltaics: a Concise. Description of the Current State of the Art and Possible Research Pathways Brief mention [37] Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV): review, Potentials, Barriers and Myths…”

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“…Each of these building components provide opportunities for integrating PVs to the building and by extension, for façade customization [36,37,[59][60][61][62]. The main BIPV façade applications extracted from literature [39,43,59,61,63] include curtain walls, glazing, external/shading devices, and innovative applications. Table 2 presents an overview of these applications using representative built examples to describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of these types.…”

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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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A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

Attoye

Aoul

Hassan³

2017

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“…In recent years, the new generation of photovoltaics-organic photovoltaic (OPV), have been encouraged in the market. They are more economical and flexible but with lower electrical efficiency (e.g., module efficiencies for OPV devices are in the range of 3-7.6%) [12]. In recent years, semi-transparent PV (STPV) windows have attracted the attention of many researchers.…”

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Study on the Energy Saving Potential for Semi-Transparent PV Window in Southwest China

Tian¹,

Zhang²,

Xie³

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Energies

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To study Semi-Transparent photovoltaic (STPV) windows, experiments were conducted to test the energy potential of STPV window installed in buildings. Two identical rooms were built up as experimental units; one was fitted with amorphous silicon (a-silicon) photovoltaic (PV) windows, and another was fitted with a conventional window. The interactional influence was analyzed among air conditioning energy consumption, lighting energy consumption, and energy generation. It can be concluded that STPV windows could provide 0.26 kWh/per day and save 29% on comprehensive building load on a typical sunny day. In order to further investigate, buildings installed with STPV windows in four typical cities with different climate environments in southwest China were simulated and analyzed. The cooling load of the buildings were all decreased while the heating energy consumption and lighting energy consumption were lightly increased. The energy generation of STPV windows was highest in Lhasa at 402.1 kWh/year. The energy saving potential of STPV windows was predicted with good values; 54% in Kunming.

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“…[4][5][6] Semi-transparent solar cells can be incorporated in a glass-glass construction forming window systems that combine electricity generation with energy saving potential. In current windowintegrated semitransparent photovoltaic system (WISPV) technology, 7 a range of photovoltaic systems have been considered. Conventional c-Si and a-Si thin films are commonly used in BIPV applications, while more innovative PV technologies (perovskites, polymer cells) can be utilized to provide highly transparent color-neutral solar cells 8 for more esthetically pleasing indoor environment.…”

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Overall energy assessment and integration optimization process of semitransparent PV glazing technologies

Σκάνδαλος

Karamanis

Peng

et al. 2018

Progress in Photovoltaics

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In order to reduce the building's energy demand, different glass innovative technologies are currently under intensive research and development. However, applicability of a particular technology requires its extensive environmental and energy characterization in building integration. In this work, overall performance (thermal, optical, and electrical) of semitransparent PV windows from different technologies has been assessed and compared with conventional windows. Characterization studies include both field measurements and numerical simulations and reveal the energy saving potential of PV windows on the overall energy demand of an office room and Mediterranean climate conditions. Finally, building integration is optimized by maximizing energy efficiency while keeping acceptable indoor visual comfort for different PV technology, ratio of the glazing surface replaced by PV windows (cover ratio), and orientation.

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PV glazing technologies

Cited by 155 publications

References 171 publications

A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

Study on the Energy Saving Potential for Semi-Transparent PV Window in Southwest China

Overall energy assessment and integration optimization process of semitransparent PV glazing technologies

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