Real-Time Irradiance Simulation for PV Products and Building Integrated PV in a Virtual Reality Environment

Veldhuis, A.J.; Reinders, Angelina H.M.E.

doi:10.1109/jphotov.2012.2189937

Cited by 16 publications

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“…In the context of photovoltaic systems, some applications of VR training have been proposed. The initial advances are described by Veldhuis [33], where VR allows the ability to visualize irradiance calculations on multiple arbitrarily oriented surfaces, including the shadow simulation, however, other aspects of the construction of the photovoltaic power plant (PV) system are not addressed. The work of Hatzilygeroudis [34] presents developments for teaching principles of solar radiation and the fundamentals in the conversion to electric energy.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Teaching and Training of Grid-Tie Photovoltaic Power Plants Design

González-López

Arredondo²,

Laureano

et al. 2019

Applied Sciences

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The current difficulty in obtaining financial resources to acquire equipment for training personnel and the requirement of well-trained engineers in the industry looking toward sustainability, creates an opportunity to innovate in teaching tools, such as the proposed in this article, where a virtual world is projected, integrating the planning and design of a photovoltaic power plant (PV). The user can interact while immersed in the virtual scene as if the PV system were already installed, illustrating technical characteristics of selected equipment and its installation details, while the user is interacting with didactic activities focused on visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning. This paper summarizes an initiative within the teaching-learning context, which aims to show the advantages of using modern tools, such as virtual reality, to achieve teaching goals in a renewable energy course.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Teaching and Training of Grid-Tie Photovoltaic Power Plants Design

González-López

Arredondo²,

Laureano

et al. 2019

Applied Sciences

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“…Furthermore, slow computation time caused by old inefficient methods of ray tracing approach caused delays and discontinuity to the design process [200] [201]. To address this issue, rasterization has found to be used in a real-time manner, simulating irradiance for PV products and BIPV in a virtual reality environment [202]. Veldhuis et al used custom-made tool VR4PV to achieve flawless design process with a real-time preview and processing time as a factor 0.01 compared with common ray tracing algorithms to estimate performances in terms of irradiance, shading, temperature, and the electrical yield of the PV cell, representing valuable feedback for designers.…”

Section: Building To Urban Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

State-of-the-art review of solar design tools and methods for assessing daylighting and solar potential for building-integrated photovoltaics

Jakica

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

140

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Solar design can take many different forms across disciplines with different methodologies and goals, ranging from acquiring architectural visual effects to assessing illumination for daylighting and solar radiation potential on building surfaces for PV implementation. Furthermore, a capability of solar design methodologies and tools to accurately and time efficiently simulate light phenomena can greatly influence performance results and design decisions. This is especially important in complex cases such as dense urban settings with the significant surface shadowing, and vertical facades including daylighting devices and photovoltaics. Consequently, choosing a suitable approach and tool for each design phase is essential for achieving unique design and performance goals. This paper was carried out within the framework of IEA-PVPS Task 15 -BIPV and it aims to facilitate this decision for all parties involved in solar design process. Here presented, is an overview of almost 200 solar design tools, analyzing their numerous features regarding accuracy, complexity, scale, computation speed, representation as well as building design process integration in about 50 2D/3D, CAD/CAM and BIM software environments. Furthermore, tools from various fields have been analysed in a broad interdisciplinary context of solar design with a particular attention for being used for Daylighting and Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) purposes. This approach should open many new perspectives on a potentially wider multidisciplinary usage and interpretation of solar design tools, sometimes well beyond their initial scope of work.

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“…This can be used for optimizing envelope surfaces via provided virtual 3D environment in a HTML window. Veldhuis and Reinders [9] established"VR4PV" software tool to be used for evaluating the distribution of irradiance on specific building envelope surfaces with an arbitrary geometry that can be covered with PV cells. VR4PVestimates the energetic performance during the design process of BIPV, and supports the preliminary layout selection of PV modules in the whole design.…”

Section: Computational Tools For Building Envelopementioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Analysis of Simulation and Optimization Tools for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (Bipv)

Youssef

Reffat

Zhai

et al. 2016

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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A growing attention has been paid to building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) from both architectural and engineering favorability. There are various computational tools developed to provide computations to optimize BIPVs and often simulations for predicting their performance. This provides a great potential for designers to have different helpful tools to be utilized. This paper introduces a comparative analysis of the most common computational tools that compute or simulate main parameters of BIPVs: building energy consumption, solar exposure radiation flux and PV system performance. These computational tools are classified based the method of processing the inputs and compared using evaluation criteria. Also, optimization algorithms that can be used in optimizing BIPVs have been compared. This comparative analysis helps designers to determine better tool/s and algorithm/s for their design cases and required optimization for BIPV. The main findings of this study are the capabilities, limitations, advantages and disadvantages of each computational tool and optimization algorithm presented, in addition to the best selections among them via a comparative analysis to be used for different design cases.

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Real-Time Irradiance Simulation for PV Products and Building Integrated PV in a Virtual Reality Environment

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Teaching and Training of Grid-Tie Photovoltaic Power Plants Design

Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Teaching and Training of Grid-Tie Photovoltaic Power Plants Design

State-of-the-art review of solar design tools and methods for assessing daylighting and solar potential for building-integrated photovoltaics

Comparative Analysis of Simulation and Optimization Tools for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (Bipv)

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