THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Konstantinos Ordoumpozanis

,

Theodoros Theodosiou

,

Dimitrios Bouris

,

Katerina Tsikaloudaki

ENERGY AND THERMAL MODELING OF BUILDING FAçADE INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS

ABSTRACT
Electricity generation on site is a design challenge aiming at supporting the concept of energy-autonomous building. Many projects worldwide have promoted the installation of photovoltaic panels on urban buildings, aiming at utilizing a large area to produce electricity. In most cases, photovoltaics are considered strictly as electricity generators, neglecting their effect to the efficiency and to the thermal behaviour of the building envelope. The integrated performance of photovoltaic ventilated façades, where the photovoltaics are regarded as part of a complicated envelope system, provides design challenges and problems that cannot be overlooked within the framework of the Nearly Zero Energy Building concept. In this study, a finite volume model for photovoltaic ventilated façades is developed, experimentally validated and found to have a significant convergence to measured data.
KEYWORDS
Photovoltaics, ventilated façade, building envelope, modelling
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2017-09-05
PAPER REVISED: 2017-10-23
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2017-10-27
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2018-02-18
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI170905025O
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2018, VOLUME 22, ISSUE Supplement 3, PAGES [S921 - S932]
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