Efficient single glazed flat plate photovoltaic-thermal hybrid collector for domestic hot water system

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1457-1468

  Dupeyrat, Patrick ^a,b   Ménézo, Christophe ^b,c   Rommel, Matthias ^d   Henning, Hans Martin ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d FHO Fachhochschule Ostschweiz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hybrid solar collector; Photovoltaic; Photovoltaic thermal; Thermal collector

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC HOT WATER; EFFICIENCY LEVELS; ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; FLAT PLATE; HIGH THERMAL; HYBRID SOLAR COLLECTORS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC/THERMAL; PV PANEL; STANDARD CONDITIONS; THERMAL COLLECTOR; THERMAL EFFICIENCY; THERMAL MODEL; WATER CIRCULATION;

EFFICIENCY; HOT WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEAT TRANSFER; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL POWER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79956066414     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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