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Abstract

In this review, an attempt has been made to analyze passive solar heating and cooling concepts along with their effects on performance of a buildings thermal management. The concepts of Trombe wall, solarium, evaporative cooling, ventilation, radiative cooling, wind tower, earth air heat exchanger, roof pond, solar shading for buildings, and building-integrated photovoltaic thermal (BiPVT) systems are extensively covered in this review. Comparison of results by various heating and cooling concepts has been made. It has been observed that direct heating through double-glazed window saves maximum conventional fuel for thermal heating during winter months. Further, an evaporative cooling is one of the best cooling concepts which is economical too in summer period.

Highlights

1. Double-glazed window for thermal heating.
2. Combination of evaporative cooling and wind tower for passive cooling.
3. Trombe wall for both passive heating and cooling.
4. BiPVT system for thermal heating and electricity production.

Introduction

An estimated 6.7% of the global energy requirement is used for thermal management of buildings for which precise Arab data are not available [1]. As per an estimate, at least 35% of the total buildings energy requirements may be satisfied by using alternative resources [1]. The worlds total energy requirement may be reduced by 2.35% at an approximate incremental cost of 15% over the total construction and planning cost [1, 2]. As a proof of concept, the solar H.P. Co-operative building in India was able to reduce heat loss by 35% by using double-glazing solar passive design for thermal heating [3]. Different physical processes for providing thermal comfort for passive buildings include solar radiation, long-wave radiation exchange, radiative cooling, and evaporative cooling. Solar radiation and radiative cooling are the processes used for both thermal heating and cooling purposes [1].

Passive solar design is used as a cost and resource efficient method for achieving natural harmony between climate, architecture, and people. The building structure should be self-sustainable that is generating the energy for its own consumption.

Classification of various heating, cooling, and heating/cooling passive concepts has been done in Table 1 including building-integrated photovoltaic thermal (BiPVT) systems.

Table 1. Classification of heating and cooling concepts

Passive solar design strategies for passive house

Passive design strategies are related to various aspects of a building like shape, size, orientation, form, site, layout etc. Their impact can be easily seen in the performance of the buildings energy use. This is because the massing and layout of the buildings can generate self-shading effects and can enhance the ventilation and natural lighting. At hardly any additional cost in adapting design strategies like building orientation, we can significantly achieve an effect on the buildings thermal performance. Depecker et al. [4] investigated the relationship between shape coefficient and heating loads. The study revealed that the heating load in cold climatic conditions was directly proportional to the shape coefficient, the reason being that the solar gain through the glazing was low. The study also suggested that opaque walls do not have any association with either heating load or shape coefficient, thus bearing less importance in mild and sunny climatic conditions. Stevanović [5] reviewed the heat flow across a building envelope and revealed that an optimized building form can reduce the heating load up to 12% per total volume of the building. Aldawoud [6] discussed different geometries of the atrium for the energy saving performance and concluded that square-shaped atrium has the best performance. The results also suggested that more energy savings can be achieved in low rise structure with an atrium which has a larger glazing to roof ratio for temperate and cold climatic condition. However, for hot and dry climatic conditions, high structure with a low glazing to roof ratio is preferred. An algorithm based on self-shading building envelopes for reduction in cooling and lighting loads integrated with different façade types, glazing, orientations, shapes, and life cycle costs has been developed [7, 8]. Square shape was found to give better results for all climate types. Stevanović [5] discussed that the detached units placed in curved road configurations requires large heating and cooling when compared to the attached units placed in straight layout. The latter saving up to 30% cooling and 50% heating requirements. Energy savings of 1–5% may be achieved just by changing the orientation, aspect ratio, and shape factors [9, 10]. The study concluded that the aspect ratio has very less influence on the buildings energy use. The study also concluded that with increase in the size of south-facing window, there is corresponding decrease in the total annual load in cold climatic conditions and the same increases in warm climatic conditions.

Passive Heating Concepts

The various heating concepts in brief have been summarized in Table 2 with remarks. Few concepts have been discussed in detail as follows:

Direct gain

In this case, solar radiation is directly transmitted through glazed window into the living room for thermal heating. During the day, the whole building structure collects, absorbs, and stores the heat and releases the heat at night for thermal heating as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Direct gain during sun shine hour.

The rate of heat transfer into the room can be expressed as follows,

where,

Balcomb et al. [11] suggested that single-glazed south-oriented system without storage mass is comparatively incompetent, whereas double-glazed system along with night insulation and soundly storage mass heat capacity proves to be efficient in meeting the heating requirements. Percentage of solar annual heating with storage heat capacity of 400 kJ/m²gC for single-glazed system, double-glazed system, single-glazed system with night insulations and double-glazed system with night insulation was observed to be about 10, 65, 80, and 90%, respectively. For 45° tilt, percentage of annual storage heating turns out to be nearly 87, 80, 58, and 18% for active system, double-glazed system with night insulation, double-glazed system and single-glazed system, respectively, with ratio of glass area to house area of 0.4 [1]. This means that double-glazed with night insulation is as good as active system tilted near the optimum angle. According to the authors, double glazing should be used in order to reduce heat loss from room to outside air, and windows should be covered by insulation at night to solve the same problem. Single-glazed system and double-glazed system are shown in Fig. 2A and B, respectively.

Figure 2. (A) Single glazing. (B) Double glazing.

Rate of useful energy for single-glazed system,

where,

Rate of useful energy for double-glazed system,

where,

The air gap reduces the heat transfer by conduction since air is a poor conductor. This proves that a reduction of 9% in heat gain and a reduction of 28% in losses can be achieved by using double-glazed system when compared with single-glazed system.

Indirect gain

In indirect gain, the heat is allowed to enter through glazing and is stored in the thermal mass. The heat is then transferred to the room via conduction and convection (Fig. 3).

Figure 3. Indirect gain during sunshine hours.

Indirect gain concepts include Trombe wall, water wall and trans wall.

The rate of heat transfer into the room can be expressed as follows,

where,

The thickness, surface area, material, and thermal properties of the thermal mass controls the heat flow inside the room. The thermal mass is dark colored for maximum efficiency and promote absorption of solar radiation. Reduction in buildings heating demands with use of passive heating concepts has been reported to be about 25% annually in various studies [12].

Solarium

Solarium is a unification of direct gain and thermal storage concepts. Solarium consists of three sections namely sunspace with thick mass wall on the south side (for Northern hemisphere), linking space, and living space as shown in Figure 4. The thermal wall between the living space and sunspace helps in heat retention and distribution, thus improving the efficiency. The sunspace collects the energy through the glazing, absorbs it, and prewarm air for the living space. The sunspace works on the direct gain principle, in which the heat is used to maintain the temperature suitable for its transfer to the living space.

Figure 4. Cross-section view of solarium-cum-passive solar house.

The rate of heat transfer into the living zone can be expressed as follows,

where,

Tiwari and Kumar [13] have presented a thermal analysis of a solarium-cum-passive house as represented in Figure 4. The findings of the study were based on the energy balance of different components, link walls (like air collector, trans wall, water wall, metallic sheet). The findings have been based on best Thermal Load Levelling (TLL).

Variation in room air temperature and ambient temperature were noticed due to the solar intensity necessitating an estimate of the room temperature variations. TLL can be calculated using the following expression:

Decrement factor (f) can be defined as the reduction ratio of inside surface temperature of a room to the outside surface temperature of the room and can be expressed as follows:

Temperature fluctuations in the living room were noticed in case of air collector as link wall and resolved using an additional thermal mass. With use of air collector as link wall, along with effect of isothermal mass in living space and presence of movable insulation, drop in maximum temperatures of both the zones were found to be 3–4°C.

Based on Table 2, one can observe that direct gain is more convenient for sunshine hours heating (office) and rest of the concepts are used for residential buildings. Solarium will be useful for both the applications.

Passive Cooling Concepts

To maintain comfortable indoor environment, there should be reduction in rate of solar heat gains (by using solar devices, insulation, appropriate building materials and colors, decrease in thermal heat gains by lighting controls etc.) and removal of excess heat from the building via convection, evaporative cooling, radiative cooling, air movement, cool breezes, earth coupling, reflection of radiation etc. Passive cooling concepts channel the airflow, thus removing the heat. The various cooling concepts in brief have been summarized in Table 3 with remarks. Few concepts have been discussed as follows:

Wind tower

Hot ambient air is allowed to enter the wind tower during the day. Transferring heat to the walls upon contact creating a cool downward draft. The heat stored in the walls warms the cold night air. Low pressure at the top leads to an upward draft.

Saffari and Hosseinnia [18] suggested that drop of 12°C in indoor temperature and relative humidity increased by 22% can be achieved with use of wet columns 10 m in height. Hughes et al. [19] underlined various cooling techniques integrated with wind towers. The key parameters considered include the ventilation rate and temperature to determine the feasibility of implementing the devices for their respective use. The temperature decrease was found to be in the range of 12–15°C by incorporating evaporative cooling with wind towers. The addition of the cooling devices reduces the air flow rates and the overall efficiency of the wind tower. This temperature drop was found to be greater than a solitary wind tower arrangement. Montazeri et al. [20] examined two- sided wind tower. The maximum performance was achieved during an experiment at 90° angle. Chaudhry et al. [21] investigated a novel closed-loop thermal cycle embedded inside a circular wind tower with internal cross-sectional area of 1 m² with 1 m height installed at the roof top to achieve internal thermal comfort. Louvers present at the wind tower openings were angled at 45°. The study concluded that the exit temperature using traditional cooling was increased up to 4°C without any impact of the height in case of the proposed heat pipe design with water and ethanol as working fluids.

Evaporative cooling

The interior spaces are cooled by passing the hot ambient air over damped surface to cool an air stream (by evaporating the water) before its introduction to the interior spaces. Amer [22] reported that evaporative cooling is one of the most oldest, effective, and efficient technique with the potential to reduce indoor temperature by about 9.6°C. Heat transfers for evaporative cooling have been shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. Evaporative cooling: Wetted surface exposed to solar radiation.

The rate of thermal energy per unit area can be expressed as follows,

where,

In the Middle East, evaporative cooling is combined with wind towers to channel the cool wind passed over water cisterns into the interiors to produce cooling and refreshing effect [23]. The evaporative cooling is extensively used in the form of dessert coolers in arid areas in sun light hours (ambient temperature between 37 and 42°C), despite leading to increased indoor air humidity. The method is limited to the regions with low outdoor humidity with 0.3–0.5 m³ water per dwelling availability [1]. Kamal [24] discussed a passive downward evaporative cooling system consisting of downward tower with wetted cellulose pads installed at the top of the tower with inside temperatures ranging between 29 and 30°C while the outside temperature ranged from 43 to 44°C with 6–9 number of air changes. Roof surface evaporative cooling was also discussed where the water was sprayed over suitable water-retaining materials like gunny bags laid over the roof. The results showed that the wetted roof temperature was 40°C with ambient temperature of 55°C. Qingyuan and Yu [25] concluded that the potential of evaporative cooling is subjective to the difference between humidity ratio of outdoor air and wet bulb temperature at saturation.

Solar shading techniques

Solar shading devices reduce the heat gains and thus provide comfortable indoor temperature, reducing the cooling costs. They can also function as an esthetic element aside from day lighting if properly designed. Drop of almost 6 °C in the room temperature has been observed [26]. Kumar et al. [27] evaluated various passive cooling techniques and found that solar shading alone is responsible in reducing the inside temperature by about 2.5–4.5°C. Further drop of 4.4–6.8°C was observed with insulation and controlled air exchange rate.

Shading devices

They can be classified as vertical (vertical louvers, projecting fins), horizontal devices (canopy, awnings, horizontal louvers, and overhangs), egg crate devices (concrete grille blocks, metal grills), and screenings (venetian blinds, double glass windows, window quilt shade, movable insulation curtains, natural vegetation etc.). Various roof shading techniques have been shown in Figure 6. Horizontal shading devices are best suited for south-oriented openings, whereas vertical shading devices for east- and west-facing facades.

Figure 6. Roof shading by (A) earthen pots, (B) solid cover and (C) plant cover.

Kima et al. [28] studied the impact of four shading types – overhangs, blind system, light shelf, and experimental shading device. Maximum cooling energy saving was determined to be 11% for experimental shading with 76° of solar altitude. Grynning et al. [29] conducted a study in which it was found that solar shading systems are necessary to reduce the need of artificial cooling of an office block. Simulations for north- and south-oriented cubicles with different floor areas, openings, and shading schemes were run. The simulations revealed that the shading systems contribute toward lowered transmittance value of the window. It was found that the cooling load increases with increase in the window size from 41% to 61%, therefore, there was a decrease in the heating demand. Energy demands were found to be larger in north-facing offices as compared to south facing. Shading devices, if improperly used, can increase the energy demands by 5%, hence they should not be installed on north-oriented workspaces. The results also show that by using a proper and correct shading technique, energy demands can be reduced for south-facing facades by 9%, whereas an improper technique may lead to an increase of 10%. It was also found that four pane glazing is beneficial as compared to two or three pane glazing and can reduce the energy demands as high as 20% and 7% if two pane and three pane glazing is replaced by four pane glazing, respectively.

Shading devices have been in use since ancient times. The Mughal architecture (India) used these in the form of inclined and deep shades to cover more surface area with deep carvings on building exteriors. These carvings help create mutual shading and the extended surface helps to increase the convective heat transfer [30] (Fig. 11).

Radiative cooling

Effective radiation from the exposed horizontal surface to ambient air via convective and radiative heat transfer is termed as radiative cooling. Roof transfers heat to the night sky via long wave radiation exchange and convection (Fig. 7A).

Figure 7. Radiative cooling (A) Schematic section and (B) Haveli in Shekhawati, Rajasthan.

The radiant heat exchange between sky and a body/surface can be expressed as:

Rate of long-wavelength radiation exchange between ambient air and sky can be expressed as:

Courtyard planning

Localized heating within buildings may be reduced to large extent by exploiting the thermal interaction due to the difference in temperature of courtyard and the building core depending upon the aspect ratio of the court, wind speed, and direction [31] (Fig. 7A and B). In vernacular architecture, the courtyards were integrated with vegetation and water bodies to enhance the humidity, evaporative cooling, and provision of shade.

Infiltration/Ventilation

Energy conservation and natural ventilation should be the prime concern of any building design as the buildings are often planned as sealed and well insulated, with low heat gain or loss, the extreme use of HVAC systems to improve air quality and to dilute the VOCs emitted by the building materials and furniture [32]. In buildings, there are two types of airflows induced due to pressure difference leading to natural air flow. Infiltration occurs from adventitious openings that are present in every building in the form of interfaces, cracks, or any gaps etc. Infiltration can be minimized with draught sealing, air locks, airtight and quality construction of doors and windows. Wang et al. [33] suggested that airtightness alone can have a significant impact on the heating and cooling performance of the building. In the study, infiltration of hot and humid air led to an increase of 9.4% and 56% in total cooling load and latent load, respectively. Reduction of 1.4% in heating load was observed due to higher outside temperature. The other type of airflow is ventilation. Windows play an important role for air circulation within the building premises with recommended value of air movement being 0.2 and 0.4 m/s during winters and summers, respectively [14].

The ventilation losses can be given by:

Rate of heat transfer from roof bottom to room air is,

Based on Table 3, one can observe that the combination of evaporative cooling and wind towers is able to reduce the temperature by up to 12–17°C. Evaporative cooling is the most economical concept for cooling of a building.

Passive Heating and Cooling Concepts

These are the concepts that can be used for both seasons for heating and cooling purposes. The various heating/cooling concepts in brief have been summarized in Table 4 with remarks. Few concepts have been discussed as follows:

Case 5: It is recommended that thermal insulation in both winter and summer and appending a shading curtain in summer are adopted, especially for the diurnally used PV-Trombe wall.

Trombe wall

Trombe wall is a large (at least 400 mm thick) mass (material – stone, brick, reinforced cement concrete, mud, etc.), exposed to sunlight through south-facing exterior glazing in northern hemisphere. The thick walls transfer the absorbed solar energy to the interiors by conduction and convection. Trombe wall reduces the heat flux from the exposed outer surface wall to the interiors of the building. Thermal mass reduces the temperature fluctuation peaks (decrement factor) and shifts the peak to a later time than the air temperature peaks (time lag) due to a lower overall heat transfer coefficient.

Energy balance for Trombe wall are as follows:

Solair temperature,

Heat flux (W/m²),

where,

Energy balance for bare surface (Trombe wall) with insulation of thickness L_i, having thermal conductivity of K_i during the night time can be expressed as follows:

where,

Trombe wall may have two different types of exposed surfaces for passive buildings:

1. Bare exposed surface (unglazed Trombe wall) with absorptivity, α ≤ 0.4. This surface is used for thermal cooling (Figs. 8 and 11; equation (16)).

   Figure 8. Energy flow diagram for Trombe wall (unglazed).

2. Blackened and exposed surface (glazed Trombe wall) with absorptivity ≥ 0.9. This surface is used for thermal heating (Fig. 9; equation (15)).

   Figure 9. Blackened and glazed surface.

Trombe wall – Passive heating

Blackened and glazed surface (Fig. 9) of the Trombe wall should be considered for passive heating.

Energy balance for blackened and glazed surface are as follows:

Heat flux (W/m²),

where,

Figure 10 shows simple passive heating technique using Trombe wall, with vent openings provided near the floor and the ceiling to allow convective heat transfer. These concepts have been applied in Pyrenees Orientales district of France and in the U.S. southwest.

Figure 10. Trombe wall with vent openings.

For heating purposes, thermal resistance of glazing is proven to be more beneficial because glazing minimizes the heat loss through itself. A solar house based on this concept has also been constructed in Jordan (1983–1984) with two sections, namely the heated section and the non-heated space. Ta'ani et al. [62] reported that it is possible to meet 54% of the buildings heating demands by solar energy with collector array efficiency with proper retrofitting. Tyagi and Buddhi [63] proposed a filling of phase change materials (PCM) to enhance the storage of latent heat in the masonry wall. These units are lighter in weight and require less space as compared to the massive thermal mass. Nwachukwu et al. [64] found that heat storage capacity along with the heat transfer through a Trombe wall can be improved by coating the exteriors of the thermal mass with superior absorption vigor. Balcomb and McFarland [65] found that Trombe walls with vented openings proved to be 10–20% more efficient, especially in extreme climatic conditions like Boston. Saadatian et al. [66] discussed different types of Trombe walls, viz. classical and modified, zigzag, composite, fluidized, solar water wall, solar trans wall, solar hybrid wall, Trombe wall with PCM and PV-Trombe wall. The efficiency of Trombe wall can be improved by 8% by using a fan. The optimal size (i.e., ratio of Trombe walls area to area of rooms with other walls) should be 37% with 300–400 mm thickness. The insulation increases the efficiency by 56% and also decreases the size of the thermal wall. The energy and environmental performance has been compared with and without Trombe wall in the study by Bojić et al. [67]. The research is based on two cases: the first case, without any Trombe wall and the second case, with installations of two Trombe walls at the south side of Mozart house located in Lyon, France. A 450 mm layer of clay brick 1220 has been used as the Trombe core material. The second case uses the solar energy captured to save around 14% of all electricity and 20% of annual energy as compared to the first case. The energy ratio is around 6 with the energy payback time of around 8 years for the electrical heating with optimum core thickness. The above values are around 3 and 18 years, respectively, for natural gas heating. The savings can further increase with increase in the thickness of Trombe wall layer. The optimum thickness of clay brick is around 0.35 m and 0.25 m for electrical heating and natural gas heating, respectively. The study also reveals that lower density material like clay brick save more operating energy as compared to higher density material like concrete.

Trombe wall – Passive cooling

A thick thermal mass used as the exterior facade reduces the decrement factor and leads to a time lag. A heavy structure is preferred for thermal cooling as the mass acts as an insulator and a heat storage medium. The unglazed Trombe wall may be constructed with different materials like stone, brick, reinforced cement concrete, mud, etc. This is a very old technique and is clearly visible in historical buildings like Humayuns Tomb, Qutub complex, Fatehpur Sikri (Fig. 11) etc. The ventilation system, as marked, has been arranged above the lintel level of the windows and the inside temperature is found to be comfortable all year round.

Figure 11. Trombe wall, openings, shades (passive cooling) Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, India.

A bare surface (Fig. 8) should be considered for passive cooling purpose. Expression of solair temperature for bare surface Trombe wall can be written as:

An innovative approach of combining unglazed Trombe wall (Bare surface) with storage facility was evolved by Tiwari et al. [68] as shown in Figure 12A and B.

Figure 12. Unglazed Trombe wall (Bare surface) with storage (A) Section and (B) Sodha BERS Complex, Varanasi.

Trombe wall – Passive heating and cooling

Shen et al. [69] discussed the installation of adjustable dampers at the glazing and adjustable vents at the wall. This system is favorable for both heating and cooling purposes. During winters, the upper damper closes while the lower damper and both vents are open, although in summers, lower damper along with upper vent are closed. It was also discussed that the composite wall has better energetic performances than the classical wall in cold and/or cloudy climatic conditions. Krüger et al. [70] analyzed the heating and cooling potential of Trombe wall by installing two test cells of 5.4 m³ internal volume and 2.6 m² floor area for a subtropical location. One of them was a naturally ventilated Trombe wall and the other one was without it (reference test cell). Higher performance was seen in the reference test cell under cold conditions. For heating purpose, three operation modes were tested – air vents 1 and 3 closed (case 1); air vent 3 closed (case 2); and air vents 1 and 3 closed with dampers installed in the storage wall openings (case 3). For weekly averages and clear sky conditions, the smallest average difference was recorded in case 3 and the highest in case 2, from the control test cell. Case 2 was considered the best configuration for the weekly period data, but case 1 proved to be better in clear day conditions with slightly higher temperature difference to the exterior (5.2°C against 4.5°C). Case 2 was considered to be a better option for winters. For summers, four operation modes were used – all air vents shut (operation mode 1); air vents 1 and 4 shut (operation mode 2); air vent 2 shut (operation mode 3); air vents 2 and 4 shut (operation mode 4). Mode 3 is considered to be the best option in summers.

Roof pond

In earlier studies, it has been seen that about 50% of the heat gains for single-story buildings is received via roof [71]. The conventional approaches to reduce the heat flux via roof includes false ceilings, insulations, increasing the roof thickness, roof shading, or using roof coatings. Roof pond is another technique found in 1920s and was first investigated at the University at Texas [72]. Sutton [73] observed that the roof surface temperature might reach 65.6°C without any treatment. By installing an open roof pond, the above temperature can be dropped down to 42.2 and 39.4°C with 0.05 and 0.15 m depths of the pond, respectively [74]. A drop of 20°C in the room temperature can be achieved by using the roof pond in arid regions [75]. Kharrufa and Adil [76] tested one room (4 × 7 × 2.75 m) to check the effectiveness of the roof pond which was mechanically ventilated (Fig. 13) for cooling in hot dry summer of Baghdad.

Figure 13. Schematic section of roof pond with forced electric ventilation.

Earth air heat exchanger

The air is allowed to pass through a tunnel or a buried pipe at least 1–3 m below the surface for both heating and cooling purposes. A depth of 2–3 m is generally considered since at that depth, it is cooler than the outside in summers and warmer in winters [35]. Figure 14 shows the scheme of Earth air heat exchanger (EAHE).

Figure 14. Scheme of Earth air heat exchanger.

Thermal energy gained by the flowing air can be expressed as:

where,

T₀ is the ground temperature outside pipe (°C).

For the given design parameters by Tiwari et al. [77], a drop of 5–6°C in the outlet air temperature in summers was noticed, using five air changes with 100 mm diameter and 210 mm length of the pipe.

Combination of various passive heating and cooling concepts

Various passive solar strategies have been discussed and it is evident that the energy use can be reduced to some extent with the above discussed strategies individually. To achieve a high level of energy performance, a combination of different passive solar techniques is necessary. The various heating/cooling concepts in brief have been summarized in Table 4 with remarks.

Based on Table 4, one can observe that unglazed Trombe wall can be used for both heating and cooling, whereas glazed Trombe wall can be used for heating purpose only. Combination of Trombe wall, cool roof, and thermal insulation proves to be very effective and can achieve 46% and 80% of savings in winters and summers, respectively.

Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal (BiPVT) System

Solar energy is converted to electrical energy by photovoltaic (PV) modules with efficiency of 10–15%. The rest of the energy is radiated back to the atmosphere or absorbed as heat. Photovoltaic thermal system (PVT) refers to the extraction of this absorbed energy and bringing it into use. Integration of PVT with a building (façade, roof, windows etc.) is referred to as building integrated photovoltaic thermal system (BiPVT). The efficiency of BiPVT system is much larger, since it produces electricity and also provides the building with thermal energy. In case, the PV modules are opaque type, the system is termed as building-integrated opaque photovoltaic thermal system and if the PV modules used are semitransparent, the system is referred as BiSPVT (Fig. 15).

Figure 15. Building-integrated semitransparent photovoltaic thermal (BiSPVT) system.

Following [102] (Fig. 15), energy balance for solar cell is,

Energy balance for roof of room 2 at x = 0 is

Energy balance for room 1 air temperature:

Energy balance for roof to room 2 at x = L is

Energy balance for room 2 air temperature is

Joshi et al. [103] have found that exergy efficiency of PVT system (11.6–16%) is higher than that of the PV system (8–14%) by using Petelas formula [104]. Joshi and Tiwari [105] have found that the monthly energy and exergy of a 1.2 m PVT module lies between 35–60 kWh and 7–16 kWh, respectively, for different months and cities of India. Chen et al. [106] have found that BiPVT system with 64 m² surface area can produce 8.5–10 kWh of thermal output.

Vats and Tiwari [107] have derived analytical expressions for room air temperature of BiSPVT and BiOPVT system integrated to the roof of a room and facade with and without air duct. It was found that the room air temperature for façade and roof in SPVT and OPVT systems with air duct is lower than without an air duct. The reason behind the finding was that there was indirect heating due to the presence of insulated façade/roof between the PV module and the room air. The difference between the room air temperature in SPVT and OPVT façade with and without air duct was found to be 1.46°C and 9.80°C, respectively. The same for SPVT and OPVT roof with and without air duct was found to be 1.13°C and 9.55°C, respectively. Further, the results have been tabulated in Table 4. Vats and Tiwari [108] evaluated the energy and exergy performance of BiSPVT system with roof and found that HIT PV module (heterojunction comprised of a thin amorphous silicon PV cell on top of a crystalline silicon cell) has maximum overall thermal energy of 2497 kWh, maximum annual electricity of 810 kWh, and maximum exergy of 834 kWh. The authors also found that the efficiency of HIT and a-Si is 16% and 6%, respectively, varying inversely with the solar cell temperature, while maximum annual thermal energy of 464 kWh was observed in case of thin amorphous silicon cell (a-Si). An a-Si has maximum thermal energy of 79 kWh with packing factor of 0.62 [109].

Vats et al. [110] evaluated the energy and exergy performance of BiSPVT system to roof with and without ducting for cold climatic conditions. It was observed that HIT accounts for maximum overall thermal energy and a-Si for minimum in both cases with and without an air duct. Annual overall exergy in HIT with duct was 643 kWh and without duct was 610 kWh. The study concluded that with duct, approximately 15% overall thermal energy is greater than without duct. Vats et al. [109] studied the influence of packing factor of SPV module integrated to the roof on the room temperature, module, and electrical efficiency of the module. The study concluded that the temperature of the module decreases with decrease in the packing factor. With decrease in the packing factor, there is an increase in its electrical efficiency and rise in the room air temperature by 3°C due to increase in the nonpacking factor. The authors found that HIT PV module has maximum annual electrical energy of 813 kWh and a-Si has maximum thermal energy of 79 kWh with packing factor of 0.62. Efficiency increases by 0.2–0.6% with a corresponding decrease in the module temperature by 10°C if packing factor is reduced from 0.83 to 0.62. The results of few studies have been summarized in Table 5.

Based on Table 5, one can observe that BiPVT system can be used for thermal heating and electricity generation. In addition, semitransparent PV module is also an effective heating technique to sustain design, which not only produces electricity and provides thermal energy but also allows day lighting, reducing the energy demands.

Conclusions and Recommendations

• For passive heating, direct gain is more convenient for sunshine hours heating (office) and rest of the concepts are used for residential buildings. Solarium will be useful for both the applications. Use of double-glazed system leads to reduction of 9% of heat gain and reduction of losses by 28% compared to single-glazed system. Exposed walls should be double glazed to trap maximum solar radiation inside the room with minimum U-value.
• For passive cooling, the combination of evaporative cooling and wind tower proves to be very effective and can reduce the temperature by up to 12–17°C. Evaporative cooling is the most economical concept for cooling of a building.
• For passive heating/cooling, combination of Trombe wall, cool roof, and thermal insulation can achieve 46% and 80% of savings in winters and summers, respectively.
• BiSPVT system gives better result in terms of efficiency, thermal environment, space heating, day lighting, and electricity use. Photovoltaic systems are among the most promising alternative energy source. Building-integrated photovoltaic systems can provide savings in electricity costs, reduce pollution, and also add to the architectural appeal of the building.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful to Bag Energy Research Society, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad for their cooperation and help in the research work.

Conflict of Interest

None declared.

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