I_BIPV_energy simulation

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					LEW Jen Sern, NUS final year student, has won a High Achievement Award in the 2012 Innovation & Research Award competition at the NUS Faculty of Engineering, for his final year research project for the Degree of B. Eng (Engineering Science). The project entitled “Advances in luminescence-based characterisation of silicon wafer solar cells” was conducted at SERIS. Jen Sern was supervised by Prof Armin ABERLE (SERIS’ CEO), Dr Bram HOEX (SERIS’ SiPV Cluster Director) and Mr Matthew P. PELOSO (SERIS’ PhD candidate) for this work.

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Solar and Energy Efficient Buildings

Building Integrated Photovoltaic / Energy Simulation

Photovoltaics integrated into buildings can reduce the electricity consumption significantly or in the case of Singapore’s first zero-energy building, can even produce as much electricity as a building would need over a period of one year.

Our current services for industry and opportunities for collaborative research include:

1. Design development for BIPV products in new and existing buildings to:

Reduce the energy consumption using computational simulation for improved Green Mark score
Study the feasibility of various PV technologies and building integration through detailed irradiance simulation considering the urban context
Support the widespread adoption through specification writing and tender evaluation using price-quality-methods

2. Analytical monitoring of BIPV systems/components to determine and optimize:

Performance ratio, yields and losses on site
IV-curves for BIPV modules under different incidence angles of light
Annual electricity savings, daily demand and supply matching pattern
Optical and thermal properties of see-through PV modules

For further information, please contact:

Dr CHEN Fangzhi

Senior Research Scientist,

SERIS, Solar and Energy Efficient Buildings Cluster

Email: chen.fz@nus.edu.sg