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ISBN: 978-1-56700-537-0

ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-538-7

ISSN Online: 2377-424X

International Heat Transfer Conference 17
August, 14-18, 2023, Cape Town, South Africa

SIMULATION OF A ROOFTOP PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM: A FOCUS ON THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF THE BUILDING

Get access (open in a dialog) DOI: 10.1615/IHTC17.100-10
10 pages

Abstract

Building Applied Photovoltaics and Building Integrated Photovoltaic systems are promising opportunities to develop renewable technologies in urban environment. However, the photovoltaic field acts as a solar and aeraulic mask for the underlying building that impacts the building's energy needs for air conditioning and heating. In this work, the energy balance of a simplified building with integrated photovoltaic field is modelled using a Monte Carlo approach. This method is applied to evaluate the needs for cooling or heating of the building for several years. Two kinds of roof decks are studied: concrete roof with a single layer and green roof with two additional layers (substrate and vegetation layers). The results from the Monte Carlo simulation are discussed and exploited with a FeedForward Artificial Neural Network to interpolate the building consumption according to the meteorological parameters.