Objective
Reduction of energy consumption in buildings and the implementation of renewabl e energy is a matter of serious concern for the European Community and its memb ers. The built environment in Europe has a large available area for the integra tion for PV systems; the available area for PV integration is estimated at 4000 km2 Facades, sun spaces and windows can combine the functions of energy saving s through high U-values and effective daylighting and offer the possibility of incorporating PV cells. European and national regulations and laws impose more and more restrictions on the energy consumption of buildings, which translates into stronger demands on the energy performance of building components, such as claddings, PV, windows and window systems. Architects, building owners, decisi on makers and customers are no longer interested solely in aesthetic and daylig hting aspects of such systems, but are expecting a good thermal performance of such systems. Furthermore, delivery time, safety aspects, flexibility in design and durability of the systems are all very important items attending the marke t's full interest. We propose to develop and validate a calculation/design t ool, supplying the customer with the physical properties of the designed system and supplying the designer and assembler of the systems with enough input to s erve a fast manufacturing of the system. The tool will furthermore be an access ory to calculate the thermal, optical and PV electric properties of PV window s ystems using available knowledge e.g. from the development of WIS, while workin g in the design process of the system. The tool will supply the SME with kno wledge on the thermal and solar performances without the need for an expensive in-house expert on this field. Exact knowledge on these performances is needed in order to develop complex composite PV window systems, with good thermal perf ormances, thus reducing energy losses of buildings and enhancing the PV electri c performance. The tool will significantly reduce the effort of the SME in inf ormation supply towards potential customers, specification of the physical para meters and data input for the manufacturing process. Clear specifications, base d on experimental validations, will stimulate the acceptance of the PV window s ystems. This will stimulate the market development. The proposed tool will make the overall process of designing and manufacturing PV window systems more effi cient and can therefor contribute to lower prices, quick delivery and professio nal product specifications and thus acceptance.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
- social scienceslaw
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Call for proposal
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CRS - Cooperative research contractsCoordinator
4844 ZJ Terheijden
Netherlands