LAPSE:2019.0005
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LAPSE:2019.0005
Design, Simulation and Experimental Investigation of a Solar System Based on PV Panels and PVT Collectors
January 7, 2019
This paper presents numerical and experimental analyses aimed at evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) collectors. An experimental setup was purposely designed and constructed in order to compare the electrical performance of a PVT solar field with the one achieved by an identical solar field consisting of conventional photovoltaic (PV) panels. The experimental analysis also aims at evaluating the potential advantages of PVT vs. PV in terms of enhancement of electrical efficiency and thermal energy production. The installed experimental set-up includes four flat polycrystalline silicon PV panels and four flat unglazed polycrystalline silicon PVT collectors. The total electrical power and area of the solar field are 2 kWe and 13 m², respectively. The experimental set-up is currently installed at the company AV Project Ltd., located in Avellino (Italy). This study also analyzes the system from a numerical point of view, including a thermo-economic dynamic simulation model for the design and the assessment of energy performance and economic profitability of the solar systems consisting of glazed PVT and PV collectors. The experimental setup was modelled and partly simulated in TRNSYS environment. The simulation model was useful to analyze efficiencies and temperatures reached by such solar technologies, by taking into account the reference technology of PVTs (consisting of glazed collectors) as well as to compare the numerical data obtained by dynamic simulations with the gathered experimental results for the PV technology. The numerical analysis shows that the PVT global efficiency is about 26%. Conversely, from the experimental point of view, the average thermal efficiency of PVT collectors is around 13% and the electrical efficiencies of both technologies are almost coincident and equal to 15%.
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dynamic simulation, experimental, PV panes, PVT collectors
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Buonomano A, Calise F, Vicidomini M. Design, Simulation and Experimental Investigation of a Solar System Based on PV Panels and PVT Collectors. (2019). LAPSE:2019.0005
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Buonomano A: Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)—University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio, 80, Naples 80125, Italy [ORCID]
Calise F: Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)—University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio, 80, Naples 80125, Italy [ORCID]
Vicidomini M: Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)—University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio, 80, Naples 80125, Italy
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Energies
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9
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7
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E497
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2016
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2016-06-29
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1996-1073
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