TY - GEN
T1 - BAPV arrays
T2 - 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012
AU - Chatterjee, Saurabh
AU - Tamizhmani, Govindasamy
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The hot stagnant air underneath the BAPV (building applied photovoltaics) arrays can be extracted to improve the array lifetime, performance and thermal uniformity, and can also be used for residential space heating and water heating. This work is an effort to compare and understand the effect of fan cooling on the temperature of rooftop photovoltaic modules by comparing two side-by-side arrays (control array without fan cooling and test array with fan cooling) under identical ambient conditions of irradiance, air temperature, wind speed and wind direction. This work investigates the effect of fan cooling on the performance, thermal uniformity under low/high wind speed conditions and the thermal models previously developed at Arizona State University.
AB - The hot stagnant air underneath the BAPV (building applied photovoltaics) arrays can be extracted to improve the array lifetime, performance and thermal uniformity, and can also be used for residential space heating and water heating. This work is an effort to compare and understand the effect of fan cooling on the temperature of rooftop photovoltaic modules by comparing two side-by-side arrays (control array without fan cooling and test array with fan cooling) under identical ambient conditions of irradiance, air temperature, wind speed and wind direction. This work investigates the effect of fan cooling on the performance, thermal uniformity under low/high wind speed conditions and the thermal models previously developed at Arizona State University.
KW - Building applied photovoltaics
KW - rooftop PV
KW - thermal effect
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U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317672
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317672
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869448562
SN - 9781467300643
T3 - Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
SP - 537
EP - 542
BT - Program - 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012
Y2 - 3 June 2012 through 8 June 2012
ER -