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New designs of building integrated photovoltaics
New solar energy systems with fixed concentrators and photovoltaics have been designed to adapt building integration. These new systems aim to performance improvement, practical operation and aesthetic integration and are associated with PV or hybrid PV/T absorbers combined with static reflectors or Fresnel lenses demanding less tracking requirements. The simplest design mode of these systems is the plain PV module with flat reflector, a second design is the static parabolic or CPC reflector and a third one the Fresnel lens, both with tracking PV strips working as primary absorbers for the converged solar radiation. In these systems, an additional absorber can receive the diffuse radiation as well as the direct sunlight, that is not captured by the main absorber, so that the system to absorb almost all incident solar radiation. For the concentrators, specular and diffuse reflectors can be applied in mirror type systems and linear Fresnel lenses in lens type systems. Fresnel lenses can be also used for solar control of building atria. These devices can be installed on horizontal or inclined building roof, under balconies, or on some other façade parts. In this paper, the design and application aspects of the suggested systems with the new concentrator - absorber configurations are presented and discussed.
New designs of building integrated photovoltaics
New solar energy systems with fixed concentrators and photovoltaics have been designed to adapt building integration. These new systems aim to performance improvement, practical operation and aesthetic integration and are associated with PV or hybrid PV/T absorbers combined with static reflectors or Fresnel lenses demanding less tracking requirements. The simplest design mode of these systems is the plain PV module with flat reflector, a second design is the static parabolic or CPC reflector and a third one the Fresnel lens, both with tracking PV strips working as primary absorbers for the converged solar radiation. In these systems, an additional absorber can receive the diffuse radiation as well as the direct sunlight, that is not captured by the main absorber, so that the system to absorb almost all incident solar radiation. For the concentrators, specular and diffuse reflectors can be applied in mirror type systems and linear Fresnel lenses in lens type systems. Fresnel lenses can be also used for solar control of building atria. These devices can be installed on horizontal or inclined building roof, under balconies, or on some other façade parts. In this paper, the design and application aspects of the suggested systems with the new concentrator - absorber configurations are presented and discussed.
New designs of building integrated photovoltaics
Tripanagnostopoulos, Yiannis (author)
2013
4 Seiten, 15 Bilder, 9 Quellen
Conference paper
Storage medium
English
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