Solar Heating and Cooling with Transparent Façade Collectors in a Demonstration Building

Abstract

Transparent façade collectors can provide solar heating and cooling and lead to primary energy savings even compared to an opaque wall. They can be simulated with a detailed physical model based on laboratory measurements. The demonstration installation in Ljubljana will provide extensive measurement data of transparent façade collectors in an outdoor environment. This allows a comparison with simulations performed with the model validated by laboratory measurements. This paper presents the demonstration installation and the measurement system, which are based on the new modelling abilities and focused on the outdoor validation of such models.