Simulation Study on Thermal Performance of a Ventilated PV Facade Coupled with PCM

摘要

This paper presents a dynamic thermal model based on DesignBuilder simulation software platform, for a simple office building model with an integrated ventilated PV facade/solar air collector system in climatic conditions of Bratislava, Slovakia. Thermodynamic simulation has been applied in order to express thermal performance of a ventilated PV facade coupled with phase change material through the whole reference year. Attention is focused on simplified approaches which capture the important elements of the problem. The results of simulation show that natural ventilation of PV facade with added phase change material have ability decrease temperatures of PV panel during extreme days more than 20°C and shift time of peak temperature even more than 5 hours.