New Insights into Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2022) | Viewed by 9476
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) systems; concentrating solar power technologies; energy self-sufficient building; thermal energy storage systems; advanced modeling and simulation; nanotechnology and nano-enhanced PCMs; renewable-energy-powered heating and cooling systems
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Interests: photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T); building-integrated PV/T (BIPVT); zero energy buildings; vaccuum insulation panel (VIP)
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Interests: solar thermal applications in agricultural processes; decentralized energy solutions; thermal process analysis and energy auditing; process optimization; exergetic based thermal anaylsis; ANSYS-CFX; CFD modeling for developing next-generation energy efficient thermal processing technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy is considered one of the main parameters of any country’s socio-economic development. Over the years, conventional energy sources have been used to meet growing energy demands. The production of electricity is mainly dependent on conventional energy sources. An uncontrolled harnessing of limited sources will cause depletion of global oil and gas. One of the major challenges facing the world today is the increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the environment, which is generally caused by the substantial use of fossil fuels. Due to the limited availability of fossil fuels and rising air pollution, the replacement of fossil resources by renewable energy has become inevitable. Therefore, conservation of fossil fuels and exploration of possible alternatives are the prime challenges. Solar energy is a clean and abundant source of renewable energy. High levels of solar irradiance over a wide area of the globe make this energy a suitable source for power generation from solar photovoltaic (PV) and hybrid photovoltaic/ thermal (PV/T) systems. In fact, PV/T technology is the most significant innovation of recent times and can simultaneously generate heat and electricity from sunlight.
This Special Issue, entitled “New Insights into Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems”, will discuss the energy potential and economic viability of the PV/T system as an alternative to fossil fuels for addressing critical environmental issues. Research topics include, but are not limited to, nanotechnology, phase change materials, thermal storage systems, new/novel working fluids, and materials for the solar systems. We are interested in the most recent PV/T technologies and their applications to residential, industrial, agricultural, and other potential sectors with particular interest in environmental assessments and global-scale economic competitiveness. Research and review papers, case studies, experimental, and analytical and numerical studies are welcome.
Dr. Muhammad Imtiaz Hussain
Prof. Dr. Jun-Tae Kim
Dr. Waseem Amjad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) systems
- PV and PV/T integration with buildings
- degradation of PV materials
- PV/T with heat pipe technology
- nanotechnology
- innovative designs
- advanced fluids and materials applications
- life-cycle assessments
- exergetic and energetic efficiency
- exergoeconomics analysis
- exergoenvironmental analysis
- environmental analysis
- investment and economic analysis
- climate change
- PCMs and thermal storage systems
- process optimization
- advanced grid integration
- experimental, theoretical, and computational analyses
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