The influence of PV coverage ratio on thermal and electrical performance of photovoltaic-Trombe wall

Renewable Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2491-2498

  Jiang, Bin ^a   Ji, Jie ^b   Yi, Hua ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Coverage ratio; Electrical yield; Heat gain through the PV TW; Photovoltaic Trombe wall; Thermal efficiency; Total efficiency

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COVERAGE RATIO; DETAILED SIMULATION; ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCIES; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCES; ELECTRICAL YIELD; ELSEVIER (CO); INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; INDOOR TEMPERATURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); SIMULATION RESULTS; TOTAL EFFICIENCY; TROMBE WALL; WEATHER DATA;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ELECTRICAL POWER; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; WEATHER;

EID: 46449106297     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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