Visual Comfort Analysis of Semi-Transparent Perovskite Based Building Integrated Photovoltaic Window for Hot Desert Climate (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Aritra Ghosh, Abdelhakim Mesloub, Mabrouk Touahmia and Meriem Ajmi
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Aritra Ghosh: College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Renewable Energy, University of Exeter, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK
Abdelhakim Mesloub: Department of Architectural Engineering, Ha’il University, Ha’il 2440, Saudi Arabia
Mabrouk Touahmia: Department of Architectural Engineering, Ha’il University, Ha’il 2440, Saudi Arabia
Meriem Ajmi: Research Laboratory of Metrology and Energy Systems, LR18ES21, National Engineering School, University of Monastir, Monastir 5060, Tunisia

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Buildings consume considerable amount of energy to maintain comfortable interior. By allowing daylight, visual comfort inside a building is possible which can enhance the occupant’s health, mood and cognitive performance. However, traditional highly transparent windows should be replaced with semitransparent type window to attain a comfortable daylight inside a building. Evaluation of visual comfort includes both daylight glare and colour comfort analysis. Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) type windows are promising systems and can possess a range of semitransparent levels depending on the type of PV used. In this work, the semitransparent Perovskite BIPV windows was investigated by employing daylight glare analysis for an office building located in Riyadh, KSA and three wavelength dependent transmission spectra for colour comfort analysis. The results showed that the transmissions range between 50–70% was optimum for the comfortable daylight for south facing vertical pane BPV-windows. However, excellent colour comfort was attained for the transmission range of 90% which provided glare issues. Colour comfort for 20% transparent Perovskite was compared with contemporary other type of PV which clearly indicated that wavelength dependent transmittance is stronger over single value transmittance.

Keywords: BIPV; window; perovskite; CCT; CRI; glare; visual comfort; Saudi Arabia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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