A review on the recent research progress in the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) for solar energy applications

M Tian, Y Su, H Zheng, G Pei, G Li, S Riffat - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
Compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) has been gaining ever-increasing attention from
academic researchers and industrial developers owing to its stationary feature for solar …

Intelligent windows for electricity generation: A technologies review

MS Castillo, X Liu, F Abd-AlHamid, K Connelly, Y Wu - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
Buildings are responsible for over 40% of total primary energy consumption in the US and
EU and therefore improving building energy efficiency has significant potential for obtaining …

Design and development of compound parabolic concentrating for photovoltaic solar collector

AH Jaaz, HA Hasan, K Sopian, MHBH Ruslan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite about five decades of development, commercial solar energy has not yet unable to
penetrate the electric and gas options. For this particular reason, designing compound …

Review on series connected photovoltaic thermal (PVT) systems: Analytical and experimental studies

L Sahota, GN Tiwari - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is one of the most promising and fastest growing
renewable energy technologies which will play a primary role for electricity production in …

Performance investigation of low–Concentration photovoltaic systems under hot and arid conditions: Experimental and numerical results

MS Yousef, AKA Rahman, S Ookawara - Energy Conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, a comparative performance analysis was performed between a conventional
photovoltaic system and a low-concentration photovoltaic system. Two typical photovoltaic …

Design and development of a reflective membrane for a novel Building Integrated Concentrating Photovoltaic (BICPV)'Smart Window'system

K Connelly, Y Wu, J Chen, Y Lei - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
As a new concept, Building Integrated Concentrating PV (BICPV)“smart window” system
consisting of a thermotropic layer with integrated PVs is treated as an electricity-generating …

Performance analysis on the concentrated photovoltaic/thermal air collector with phase change material and vacuum double-glazing for temperature regulation

H Zhou, J Cai, T Zhang, L Xu, Q Li, H Ren, Z Shi… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Although photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) air collector has simple structure and strong pressure
bearing capacity, there are problems such as low thermal efficiency, unstable output …

[HTML][HTML] Study of the electrical and thermal performances of photovoltaic thermal collector-compound parabolic concentrated

AH Jaaz, K Sopian, TS Gaaz - Results in Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
The importance of utilizing the solar energy as a very suitable source among multi-source
approaches to replace the conventional energy is on the rise in the last four decades. The …

Thermal modeling and experimental evaluation of five different photovoltaic modules integrated on prototype test cells with and without water flow

V Tomar, GN Tiwari, TS Bhatti, B Norton - Energy conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
An analytical model of temperature dependent electrical and thermal efficiency of mono-
crystalline (m-Si), polycrystalline (p-Si), amorphous silicon thin film (a-Si), cadmium telluride …

Photovoltaic concentration: Research and development

S El Himer, S El Ayane, S El Yahyaoui, JP Salvestrini… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) technology, by using efficient optical elements, small sizes
and high efficiency multi-junction solar cells, can be seen as a bright energy source to …