Solar thermal performance of two innovative configurations of air-vacuum layered triple glazed windows

Yueping Fang; Saim Memon; Jingqing Peng; Mark Tyrer; Tingzhen Ming

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.115

Solar thermal performance of two innovative configurations of air-vacuum layered triple glazed windows

Yueping Fang
, Saim Memon
, Jingqing Peng
, Mark Tyrer
, Tingzhen Ming

London South Bank University
Hunan University
Wuhan University of Technology

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Abstract

This study reports the optimal solar thermal performance of two innovative configurations of air-vacuum layered triple glazed window or Integrated Vacuum Window (IVW). These are when the vacuum layer of IVW is facing the warm or indoor side, i.e. IVWwarm, and when the vacuum layer of IVW is facing the cold or outdoor side, i.e. IVWcold, positions at dynamic solar insolation under winter and summer EN-ISO standard ambient conditions. A theoretically and experimentally validated finite element model is employed. The results show that in winter conditions, although the U-value of IVWwarm of 0.33 Wm-2K-1 is lower than that of IVWcold of 0.49 Wm-2K-1, the IVWcold has a higher solar heat gain. In sunny winter conditions, IVWcold provides higher energy efficiency while in winter night, IVWwarm provides higher energy efficiency than IVWcold. The results show that in summer conditions the U-value of IVWwarm and IVWcold are 0.34 Wm-2K-1 and 0.51 Wm-2K-1 respectively, while IVWwarm provides lower cooling-load and higher energy-efficiency compared to IVWcold. It is concluded that setting the vacuum gap at the indoor side position provides lower cooling-load and higher energy-efficiency compared to setting the vacuum cavity at the outdoor side position in summer ambient conditions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	167-175
Number of pages	9
Journal	Renewable Energy
Volume	150
Early online date	27 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.115
Publication status	Published - May 2020

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Renewable Energy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Renewable Energy, 150, (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.115

© 2020, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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This work was supported by the Pump-Prime project (Ref: 13455-28) of Coventry University and InnovateUK project-ICURe grant (Ref: 13-14/518470120) 2018.

Funding

This work was supported by the Pump-Prime project (Ref: 13455-28) of Coventry University and Innovate UK project-ICURe grant (Ref: 13-14/518470120) 2018.

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Coventry University	13455-28, 13-14/518470120

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Keywords

vacuum
window
solar insolation
thermal performance
low emittance coatings

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General Engineering

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