Conference paper
Vertical reflector for bifacial PV-panels
Bifacial solar modules offer an interesting price/performance ratio, and much work has been focused on directing the ground albedo to the back of the solar cells. In this work we design and develop a reflector for a vertical bifacial panel, with the objective to optimize the energy harvest for the winter.
Raytracing modelling is used to simulate the reflector, and initial simplified simulations indicates a significant gain in energy harvest that increase with increasing latitude for the winter. The simulations also show energy gain for the summer, however, not as significant as for the winter and the summer gain is almost independent of latitude.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IEEE |
Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 2678-2681 |
Proceedings: | 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference |
ISBN: | 1509027246 , 1509027254 , 9781509027248 and 9781509027255 |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750136 |
ORCIDs: | Jakobsen, Michael Linde , Thorsteinsson, Sune and Poulsen, Peter Behrensdorff |
Atmospheric modeling Mathematical model Optical reflection Optical refraction Optical variables control Refractive index Sun bifacial PV-panels bifacial solar modules energy gain energy harvest optimization energy harvesting ground albedo optical elements optical engineering computing power engineering computing price-performance ratio ray tracing raytracing modelling solar cell arrays vertical bifacial panel vertical reflector