Huiming Yin - Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal Systems: Fundamentals, Designs and Applications

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Huiming Yin

Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, NY, United States

Mehdi Zadshir

Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, NY, United States

Frank Pao

Sustainable Product Development Lab, NY, United States

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Explanation of the cover: the lighthouse serves as a guide to pilots the energy harvested by building integrated photovoltaic thermal (BIPVT) systems powers lighting, and communication devices as well as ocean farming. It bathes in sunlight, wind, and ocean wave, which exhibits great potentials to change it into an energy house through novel future designs. This book will be a guide to BIPVT designers, users, researchers, and learners.

When author Huiming Yin firstly met author Frank Pao at Columbia University, it was a cloudy day in September 2014. At that time, although the solar industry was still growing rapidly in the United States, it was significantly impacted by the reduction of oil prices and the price competition from the Chinese manufacturers. As the margin of solar panel manufacture was getting thinner, some manufacturers closed their businesses, and we could foresee the difficult time ahead for both researchers and entrepreneurs. Huiming was a researcher and the inventor of a novel building-integrated photovoltaic thermal (BIPVT) system, while Frank was an industry pioneer and veteran in building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) industry. When we introduced our work to each other, we were surprised that some innovations that we had were rooted in the same ideas and principles, even though we had never met before. Moreover, we have shared the same concerns on pollution and global warming, the same passion for clean energy and energy-efficient or independent buildings, and the same vision for holistic integration of solar energy harvesting into the infrastructure systems, such as buildings, transportation, and solar farms. Despite all short-term challenges and difficulties, we believe in the bright future of novel BIPVT technologies to fight for climate change and energy crisis by oil depletion.

Since Columbia has some of the first-class research facilities, and Frank owns the complete manufacturing line of solar panels, we can work and support each other in a complementary way. In 2017, we formed the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Cooperative Research CenterCenter for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems (CEHMS) at Columbia Site along with Virginia Tech as the original site. Since then, we have formed a list of projects on different aspects of BIPVT technologies. At the same time, we developed a new course of Energy Harvesting among CEHMS sites as another new site was formed at Pennsylvania State University in 2019. We found that it would be nice if we could have a book to comprehensively introduce the BIPVT technologies for training, education, and reference services of students, early stage professionals, and researchers. Although there are many books about solar energy on the market, we could not find a satisfactory one that covers our unique work and visions on BIPVT thus far. Therefore, we discussed the idea of writing a new book to cover both fundamentals and applications in this realm.

Once we truly started the preparation for writing this book, we found that it is a formidable task to reach a concrete writing plan to cover the depth and breadth of the dynamic research and technology areas. Very often, after we started a section and shifted to our other work when we came back, we found new ways to write the previous part. It is challenging to reach a convergent version. We needed help to manage and organize the writing process. Mehdi Zadshir is an eager learner and young researcher in BIPVT with the ambition of being a rising start in the BIPVT industry. Since he started his graduate studies at Columbia University in spring 2018, he has taken most courses on photovoltaic materials and technologies, participated in the CEHMS research projects on BIPVT, and exhibited solid understanding and great passion for BIPVT. Once we chatted about the challenges of this book-writing, Mehdi showed an enthusiastic desire to join this effort. Therefore, we formed this team of authors with three generations.