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Thermo-Economic Study of Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal (PVT) Solar Collectors Combined with Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems
Author Info
Aldubyan, Mohammad Hasan
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7528-7374
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1493243575479443
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2017, Master of Science (M.S.), University of Dayton, Renewable and Clean Energy.
Abstract
Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) technology is a relatively new technology that comprises a photovoltaic (PV) panel coupled with a thermal collector to convert solar radiation into electricity and thermal energy simultaneously. Since cell temperature affects the electrical performance of PV panels, coupling a thermal collector with a PV panel contributes to extracting the heat from the latter to improve its performance. In order to ensure a sufficient temperature difference between the PV cells and the working fluid temperature entering the thermal collector, the circulated water has to reject the heat that has been removed from the PV cells into a relatively colder environment. Borehole thermal energy storage (BTES), which is located underground, often serves as this relatively colder environment due to the stability of underground temperatures, which are usually lower than the working cell temperature. Use of BTES is especially beneficial in summer, when the degradation in cells efficiency is highest. In this thesis, the electrical, thermal, and economic performances of a PVT system are evaluated for three types of buildings -- residential, small office, and secondary school -- in two different climates in the United States, one of which is hot and the other is cold. For each case, two different scenarios are considered. In the first, a PVT system is coupled with BTES, and a ground-coupled heat pump (GCHP) is in use. In the second, a PVT system is coupled with BTES and no GCHP is in use. Each scenarios’ GCHP performance is assessed as well. Both the PVT collectors and GCHP performances are evaluated over short and long-term to study the effect of continued ground heat imbalance on both technologies.
Committee
Andrew Chiasson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Youssef Raffoul, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Robert Gilbert, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
130 p.
Subject Headings
Energy
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Engineering
;
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords
Photovoltaic
;
Thermal
;
PVT
;
PV
;
thermal collector
;
Geothermal
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Ground loop
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GCHP
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GHX
;
BTES
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solar
;
energy
;
renewable energy
;
building
;
cell temperature
;
cell efficiency
;
thermo
;
economic
;
borehole
;
storage
;
TRNSYS
;
simulation
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Aldubyan, M. H. (2017).
Thermo-Economic Study of Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal (PVT) Solar Collectors Combined with Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems
[Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1493243575479443
APA Style (7th edition)
Aldubyan, Mohammad.
Thermo-Economic Study of Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal (PVT) Solar Collectors Combined with Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems.
2017. University of Dayton, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1493243575479443.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Aldubyan, Mohammad. "Thermo-Economic Study of Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal (PVT) Solar Collectors Combined with Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1493243575479443
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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