Building integrated solar thermal (BIST) technologies and their applications: a review of structural design and architectural integration
Zhang, Xingxing, Shen, Jingchun, Tang, Llewellyn, Yang, Tong 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1254-5628, Xia, Liang, Hong, Zehui, Wang, Luying, Wu, Yupeng, Shi, Yong, Xu, Peng and Liu, Shengchun
(2015)
Building integrated solar thermal (BIST) technologies and their applications: a review of structural design and architectural integration.
Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications, 5
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ISSN 2090-4541
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Abstract
Solar energy has enormous potential to meet the majority of present world energy demand by effective integration with local building components. One of the most promising technologies is building integrated solar thermal (BIST) technology. This paper presents a review of the available literature covering various types of BIST technologies and their applications in terms of structural design and architectural integration. The review covers detailed description of BIST systems using air, hydraulic (water/heat pipe/refrigerant) and phase changing materials (PCM) as the working medium. The fundamental structure of BIST and the various specific structures of available BIST in the literature are described. Design criteria and practical operation conditions of BIST systems are illustrated. The state of pilot projects is also fully depicted. Current barriers and future development opportunities are therefore concluded. Based on the thorough review, it is clear that BIST is very promising devices with considerable energy saving prospective and building integration feasibility. This review shall facilitate the development of solar driven service for buildings and help the corresponding saving in fossil fuel consumption and the reduction in carbon emission.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Article number = 182 |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology |
| Item ID: | 22370 |
| Notes on copyright: | Copyright: © 2015 Zhang X, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and
source are credited |
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| Depositing User: | Tong Yang |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2017 11:09 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 22:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/22370 |
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