Congratulations

On 10th of August one graduate students from the ‚ACCESS degree programme‘ successfully completed the presentation of her Master Thesis.

Topics of her Thesis were:

• Analyzing the Potential of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems in a typical German and Korean Multi-Family House

Well done! All the best in your new jobs!

Find the thesis here.

Abstract:
One of the important aims of Germany and Korea is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Both countries made policies to improve energy performance in the building sector for obtaining this goal. There are two kinds of strategies which make energy demand in buildings reduced as well as produce energy for buildings. By enhancing insulations and implement-ing renewables e.g. photovoltaic systems producing electricity with low carbon emissions. Both models can achieve better energy efficiency.

This thesis is divided into three parts: state of art analysis, methodology, and results of analysis.

The state of art analysis provides an introduction and considerations of photovoltaics and comparisons between Germany and Korean related to construction and energy in buildings.

The methodology indicates the case study models in terms of construction data. Each scenario proposes how to simulate under different conditions. The first scenario proposes en-ergy simulations for the German and Korean models in the initial state. The next scenario proposes energy simulations in the renovated state. Other scenarios are to simulate by applying semi-transparent and opaque PV systems.

The results of analysis display results in each scenario and comparisons between two models related to energy demands for heating and cooling, electricity production generated from PV modules according to the scenarios.

The conclusion part of this thesis summarizes the results obtained from the energy simulations. Variations applied solar modules in the renovated states reduced electricity demands for heating and cooling and CO2 emissions from 43.2% to 69.6% compared with models in the early state. Finally, this approach is proposed to improve a solution to improve energy performance as much as 67% and 32.7 % of the targets that Germany and Korea set in the building sector, respectively.