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Dynamic and Spectral Transmission Changes in a Glass System Coupled with Photovoltaics and Phase Change Materials Subjected to Solar Simulator Tests

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE 2022)

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The intention of this study concerns the analysis of thermo-optical changes in a glass block system coupled with photovoltaic (PV) and phase change material (PCM). As solar simulators are considered key methodologies for conducting solar-based research under a well-controlled environment, this study employs small-scale solar simulator tests to reveal spectral and dynamic changes in a PV and PCM glass system. Therefore, the experimental setup was equipped with a spectrometer, and the spectral light transmittance data were obtained. This was also implemented for the dynamic transmittance analysis to characterize optical-responsive mechanisms in developing a semi-transparent system with PV and PCM. Though results revealed that spectral transmittance data provide a new insight subjected to PV and PCM characterization, certain limitations were drawn that the selection of light source is crucial, and the addition of a PV layer causes some specific problems to account for the edge transmittance effect.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by project GA 20-00630S “Climate responsive components integrated in energy and environmentally efficient building envelopes” supported by the Czech Science Foundation in Czechia, project VEGA 1/0680/20 and VEGA 2/0095/20 supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.

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  1. Department of Building Structures, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czechia

    Jakub Čurpek, Miroslav Čekon, Michal Kuruc & Richard Slávik

  2. Institute of Construction and Architecture, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Miroslav Čekon

  3. Department of Materials Engineering and Physics, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Michal Kuruc & Muhammad F. Junaid

  4. Department of Wood Science and Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czechia

    Richard Slávik

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  1. Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Liangzhu Leon Wang

  2. Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

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  3. Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

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  4. Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

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  6. School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

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    Dengjia Wang

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Čurpek, J., Čekon, M., Kuruc, M., Slávik, R., Junaid, M.F. (2023). Dynamic and Spectral Transmission Changes in a Glass System Coupled with Photovoltaics and Phase Change Materials Subjected to Solar Simulator Tests. In: Wang, L.L., et al. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment. COBEE 2022. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9822-5_84

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