Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
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Abstract

A Comparative Study for a Building Integrated Semitransparent Photovoltaic Thermal BISPVT) System Integrated to Roof with and without Duct

Kanchan Vats, R. K. Mishra, and Arvind Tiwari

In this paper, a study has been carried out to evaluate annual energy and exergy of a building integrated semitransparent photovoltaic thermal (BISPVT) system integrated to the roof of a building with and without duct. Comparisons of annual energy and exergy have been done by considering six different photovoltaic (PV) modules installed on the roof for cold climatic city of Srinagar, India. It is observed that the annual overall thermal energy is maximum for heterojunction with thin layer (HIT) and minimum for amorphous silicon (a-Si) for both with and without duct cases. It is also found that the annual overall exergy in HIT is 643 kWh and 610 kWh for both with and without duct cases, respectively.