Enhancing the performance of building integrated photovoltaics

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1629-1664

  Norton, Brian ^a   Eames, Philip C ^b   Mallick, Tapas K ^c   Huang, Ming Jun ^d   McCormack, Sarah J ^e   Mondol, Jayanta D ^d   Yohanis, Yigzaw G ^d  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Array sizing; Buildings; Inverters; Photovoltaics; Solar concentration; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ARRAY SIZING; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; IN-BUILDINGS; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SOLAR CONCENTRATION; THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ARRAY; BUILDING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RESEARCH WORK; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 77956071364     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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