Double-Skin’s Integrated PV for Buildings Cooling and Heating Deep Energy Refurbishment: Total Performance Prediction

Double-skin’s solar PV integration has been illuminated as a cost-effective HVAC refurbishment for worldwide implementation. The second facade as a glass skin is well suited for implementing PV elements. The presentation review: mathematical modelling of PV integrated double skin’s facade’s buildings physics (including construction structures relevant heat and mass transfer phenomena, energy conversion processes and balances); related HVAC’s cooling and heating dynamics and loads calculation method development; as well as prediction of PV electricity production and HVAC (including cooling) energy demand satisfaction via building’s performance co-simulation (coupling the CFD simulated air-flow within the double skin’s facade and facade/building energy simulation).