Thermal Analysis of Solar PV-T Wall

This paper represents the requirements imposed in recent years on buildings and their elements have been changing rapidly. Due to increased thermal resistance of the external building shell and significant reduction of the ventilation losses, the relations between the major factors of energy balance of the modern buildings are now completely different than they were before. A low energy technique for heat removal from the interior of a building under summer conditions is the employ of natural ventilation. Solar PV wall if placed over a conventional wall forming an air gap will produce electricity and also tap thermal energy by heating the atmospheric air by convection. Thereby the thermal energy on the surface of PV cells is removed by the air flow between the glass panel and wall, so that the temperature of PV cells decreases leading to higher electrical efficiency. Research is towards the analysis of such systems so as to deliver higher energy savings and to improve the cost effectiveness. Therefore the aim of this project is to do the thermal analysis of solar wall.