L´intérêt grandissant pour les bâtiments à haute efficacité énergétique nécessite le développement de nouveaux types d´enveloppe active et multifonctionnelle pouvant couvrir une partie des besoins énergétiques du bâtiment. Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse concernent le développement de capteurs hybrides solaires photovoltaïques thermique pour la production simultanée d´eau chaude sanitaire et d´électricité au sein d´un unique capteur. L’objectif de cette thèse a été dans un premier temps d´analyser la faisabilité et la complexité du concept de capteur hybrides PV-T. Puis, à partir d’un modèle numérique développé spécifiquement pour appuyer la phase de conception du capteur PV-T les raisons expliquant la limitation des performances de tels capteurs ont été analysées, pour enfin proposer différentes solutions innovantes, tant au niveau des cellules solaires que des matériaux du modules PV et du design du capteur final afin d´en augmenter les performances. L´approche développée est par conséquent multi-échelle allant de la prise en compte des phénomènes physiques pris isolément, des propriétés locales des matériaux jusqu’à la mise en œuvre d’un composant et à l´analyse énergétique et exergétique de ses performances dans un environnement numérique dédié au bâtiment. / In the context of greenhouse gas emissions and fossil and fissile resources depletion, solar energy is one of the most promising sources of power. The building sector is one of the biggest energy consumers after the transport and industrial sectors. Therefore, making use of a building’s envelope (façades and roofs) as solar collecting surfaces is a big challenge facing local building needs, specifically in regard to heat, electricity and cooling. However, available surfaces of a building with suitable orientation are always limited, and in many cases a conflict occurs between their use for either heat or electricity production. This is one of the reasons why the concept of a hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collector seems promising. PV-T collectors are multi-energy components that convert solar energy into both electricity and heat. In fact, PV-T collectors make possible the use of the large amount of solar radiation wasted in PV modules as usable heat in a conventional thermal system. Therefore, PV-T collectors represent in principle one of the most efficient ways to use solar energy (co-generation effect). However, such a concept still faces various barriers due to the multidisciplinary knowledge requirements (material, semi-conductors, thermal) and to the complexity of the multiple physical phenomena implied in such concepts.The objective of this PhD work is to carry out a study based on a multi-scale approach that combines both numerical and experimental investigations regarding the feasibility of the concept of hybrid solar collector. The performance of such components is estimated through an appropriate design analysis, and innovative solutions to design an efficient PV-T collector are presented. Based on improved processing methods and improved material properties, an efficient covered PV-T collector has been designed and tested. This collector was made of PV cells connected to the surface of an optimized flat heat exchanger by an improved lamination process and covered on the front side by a static air layer and AR-coated glass pane and on the back side by thermal insulation material. The results showed a significant improvement of both thermal and electrical efficiency in comparison to all previous works on PV-T concepts found in the literature. System simulations were carried out for a hot water system with the software TRNSYS in order to get a clearer statement on the performance of PV-T collectors. The results show that the integration of PV-T collectors can be more advantageous than standard solar components in regard to thermodynamic considerations (energy and exergy) and environmental considerations (CO2 and primary energy saving).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:theses.fr/2011ISAL0049 |
| Date | 01 July 2011 |
| Creators | Dupeyrat, Patrick |
| Contributors | Lyon, INSA, Ménézo, Christophe |
| Source Sets | Dépôt national des thèses électroniques françaises |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text |
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