Document Type
Article
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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Construction engineering
Abstract
Combined suspended particle device (SPD)-vacuum glazing is a potential adaptive glazing for low energy building application. Glazing transmission is an essential parameter to determine indoor comfort level of building due to glazing. In this work, above 0.5 clearness index, a strong correlation between glazing transmission and clearness index (Atmospheric transmission) has been evaluated for south facing vertical plane glazing. Below 0.5 clearness index, isotropic diffuse transmittance was dominant and one single value of glazing transmission was found which is suitable for building energy calculation throughout the year. Below 0.5 clearness index, for south facing vertical plane SPD-vacuum glazing transmission was 17% and 1.1% for transparent and opaque states respectively.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.12.022
Recommended Citation
Ghost, A., Norton, B. & Duffy, A. (2017). Effect of atmospheric transmittance on performance of adaptive SPD-vacuum switchable glazing. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, vol. 161, pg. 424-431. doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2016.12.022
Publication Details
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.12.022