Life cycle cost assessment of building integrated photovoltaic thermal (BIPVT) systems

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1472-1481

  Agrawal, Basant ^a   Tiwari, G N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Energy and exergy efficiencies; Life cycle cost (LCC); Photovoltaic (PV); Solar thermal system; Space heating

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EXERGY; LIFE CYCLE; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPACE HEATING; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC; BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC THERMAL (BIPVT) SYSTEMS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; ENERGY AND EXERGY EFFICIENCY; LIFE CYCLE COSTS (LCC); PHOTOVOLTAIC; RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS; SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEMS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 79951948024     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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