The Effect of Climate on the Solar Radiation Components on Building Skins and Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) Materials
| Autor: | Hassan Gholami, Harald Nils Røstvik |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Control and Optimization 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences 020209 energy Energy Engineering and Power Technology Climate change 02 engineering and technology Radiation 01 natural sciences lcsh:Technology solceller Photovoltaics klimaendringer 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering building envelope materials Engineering (miscellaneous) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences building skin Brick Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry lcsh:T solar radiation components Teknologi: 500::Miljøteknologi: 610 [VDP] Engineering physics Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) energi Overcast climate change Environmental science Building-integrated photovoltaics business Building envelope Energy (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Energies Volume 14 Issue 7 Pages: 1847 Energies, Vol 14, Iss 1847, p 1847 (2021) |
| Popis: | The business model of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is developing expeditiously and BIPV will soon be recognised as a building envelope material for the entire building skins, among other alternatives such as brick, wood, stone, metals, etc. This paper investigates the effect of climate on the solar radiation components on building skins and BIPV materials in the northern hemisphere. The selected cities are Stavanger in Norway, Bern in Switzerland, Rome in Italy, and Dubai in the UAE. The study showed that for all the studied climates, the average incident radiation on the entire building skins is slightly more than the average incident radiation on the east or west facades, regardless of the orientations of the building facades. Furthermore, the correlation between solar radiation components and different BIPV technologies is discussed in this paper. It is also found that when it comes to the efficiency of different BIPV cells, the impact of the climate on some of the BIPV technologies (such as DSC and OSC) is much more significant than others (such as c-Si, mc-Si and CIGS). The evidence from this study suggests that in climates with higher diffuse radiation-or with more overcast days per year-the contribution of IR radiation decreases. Therefore, the efficiency of BIPV materials that their spectral responses are dependent on the IR radiation (like Si and CIGS) in such a climate would drop down meaningfully. On the other hand, the DSC and OSC solar cells could be a good option for cloudy climates since they have more stable performance, even in such a climate. Although, their efficiency compared to other BIPV materials such as Si-based BIPV solar cells is still significantly less thus far. |
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