Performance of PV-Trombe wall in winter correlated with south façade design

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 224-231

  Sun, Wei ^a   Ji, Jie ^a   Luo, Chenglong ^a   He, Wei ^a  

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

Author keywords

Indoor temperature; Numerical modeling; Photovoltaic; Solar radiation; South fa ade; Trombe wall

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FACINGS; GLAZES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

DYNAMIC NUMERICAL MODELING; ELECTRIC CONVERSION; ELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INDOOR TEMPERATURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROMBE WALL; VERTICALLY STRATIFIED;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 77957321659     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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