Experimental and Numerical Assessment of PV-T Collector for Combined Production of Electricity and Domestic Hot Water in the Frame of the Project “PVTCOL“
Abstract
A photovoltaic/thermal hybrid solar collector (or PV-T collector) is a combination of photovoltaic (PV) panels and solar thermal components (Zondag 2008). The aim of these components is to enhance the heat collected and generated by the PV panel. Therefore a PV-T device generates not only electrical, but also thermal energy and represents in principle the most efficient way to use solar energy (see Fig. 1).