Polo Lopez, Cristina Silvia and Tenconi, Luca and Lo Castro, Fabio and Brambillasca, Stefano (2012) Test Stand Solution for Photovoltaic Thermal Hybrid Solar Collector devices under Real Operating Conditions. In: Proceedings of the 27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition 27th EU PVSEC, European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, September 24 -28, 2012, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Abstract
Today the market is open to new solutions that integrate solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV) devices into a single element in order to generate electricity and thermal energy, the so-called photovoltaic thermal (PVT) hybrid solar collectors, or simply hybrid modules. The PVT modules can improve the performance of the PV part due to the cooling of PV cells. A test-stand for hybrid PVT systems was design to develop new solutions and for better understanding their performance under real operating conditions. An innovative low-cost prototype of PVT module was developed using a radiant pipe system with a liquid heat-transfer medium used to cool photovoltaic cells. To improve the module design and to check their thermal behaviour for typical domestic hot-water systems, two different PVT solutions were compared with an identical PV module without the heat transfer system. The new stand test was used in order to test the overall performance of the modules. The characteristics of two different collector types are here described by the authors.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collector; PVT Module; PV-Hybrid; Solar Thermal System comfort. |
| Subjects: | Engineering > Civil engineering > Environmental engineering > Energy resources Architecture, building and planning > Architecture > Architectural technology |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Istituto sostenibilità applicata all'ambiente costruito |
| Depositing User: | Cristina Silvia Polo Lopez |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2013 08:19 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2016 07:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/2507 |
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