Experimental and numerical investigation on the performance of amorphous silicon photovoltaics window in East China

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-369

  He, Wei ^a   Zhang, Y X ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Hou, J X ^a   Jiang, Q Y ^a   Ji, Jie ^a  

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

Author keywords

East China; Photovoltaic double glazing window; Predicted mean vote; Thermal and electrical performance

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); CFD MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS METHODS; EAST CHINA; ELECTRIC EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENT DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GLASS WINDOWS; HEAT GAINS; INNER SURFACES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PACKING FACTOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC DOUBLE-GLAZING WINDOW; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PREDICTED MEAN VOTE; PV MODULES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; WINDOW SYSTEM;

AIR; AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; MIXED CONVECTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

GLAZES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT;

ANHUI; CHINA; HEFEI;

EID: 77957766554     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.07.030     Document Type: Article

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