Solar Window Technology for BIPV or BAPV （太阳能窗口BIPV技术或BAPV）.pdfVIP

Solar Window Technology for BIPV or BAPV Energy Systems overview A team within the Scottish Institute for Solar Research (SISER) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland has patent pending for a high efficiency concentrating photovoltaic system using a minimal area of expensive PV material. The technology is readily suited to Building Integrated or Building Applied Photovoltaic generation systems (BIPV or BAPV). Developed within Dr Tapas Mallik’ research group, this BIPV system allows a high degree of light transmission making it suitable for use as a window, a skylight or a roof cladding panel etc. PV cells are typically opaque to visible light therefore limiting the light lens, curved mirror or other method transmission capability of the panel is one way of reducing this cost but making them generally unsuitable for Problem this these systems often require an “active” use as windows etc. A solution to technology solves: solar tracking device to maximise the above problems is proposed by their efficiency. Static concentrating SISER through the use of a novel static Using a novel high efficiency systems often found within building concentrator design concentrating concentrator design, this static “Solar Integrated or building applied PV light to an array of PV cells arranged Window” system is such that it allows a (BIPV or BAPV)