Experimental investigation of tri-functional photovoltaic/thermal solar collector

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 650-656

  Ji, Jie ^a   Guo, Chao ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   He, Wei ^a   Wang, Yanqiu ^a   Li, Guiqiang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Performance evaluation; PV air heating; PV water heating; Tri functional photovoltaic thermal collector

Indexed keywords

SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC/THERMAL; PV/AIR-HEATING; PV/WATER-HEATING; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; VARIABLE CONDITIONS;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84907778786     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.09.030     Document Type: Article

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