BAPV arrays: Side-by-side comparison with and without fan cooling

Saurabh Chatterjee; Govindasamy Tamizhmani

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317672

BAPV arrays: Side-by-side comparison with and without fan cooling

Saurabh Chatterjee, Govindasamy Tamizhmani

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Program - 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012
Pages	537-542
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317672
State	Published - Nov 26 2012
Event	38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: Jun 3 2012 → Jun 8 2012

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Name	Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
ISSN (Print)	0160-8371

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Other	38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin, TX
Period	6/3/12 → 6/8/12

Keywords

Building applied photovoltaics
rooftop PV
thermal effect

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Chatterjee, S & Tamizhmani, G 2012, BAPV arrays: Side-by-side comparison with and without fan cooling. in Program - 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012., 6317672, Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pp. 537-542, 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2012, Austin, TX, United States, 6/3/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317672

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