SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2014.049 2014.049 Optimization of Building integrated PV thermal air system combined with thermal storage XiangYetao laxyx6@nottingham.ac.uk GanGuohui Energy and Sustainability Division, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK 25082014 13 978-1-995850-01-6 1 13 25 August 2014 © 2014 Copyright WSSET 2014

Photovoltaic combined with Phase Change Material (PV/PCM) system is a hybrid solar system which uses a phase change material to reduce the PV temperature and to store energy for other applications. This study aims to increase the building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) efficiency by incorporating PCM while utilizing the stored heat in PCM for controlling indoor conditions. Experiments have been carried out on a prototype PV/PCM air system using monocrystalline photovoltaic modules. Transient simulations of the system performance have also been performed using a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package based on the finite volume method. The results from simulation were validated by comparing with experiment results. The results indicate that PCM is effective in limiting temperature rise in PV device and the heat from PCM can enhance night ventilation and reduce the building energy consumption to achieve indoor thermal comfort for certain periods of time.

 Photovoltaic phase change material hybrid solar BIPV 25 to 28 August 2014 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies SET2014 13 Geneva, Switzerland