Photovoltaic and thermal solar panel
AssigneeDualsun
InventorsLaetitia Brottier, Jerome Mouterde, Remi Heutte, Seirigne Sarr-Tagawa, Valentin Delachaux
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Abstract
A hybrid solar panel including at least one single-piece section resulting from extrusion, the section including a wall forming the aforementioned bottom and top faces of the heat exchanger, and the section includes: a plurality of longitudinal fins extending substantially perpendicularly from the bottom face of the heat exchanger or from the aforementioned wall, and—at least one portion of the circulation pipe directly connected to the bottom face of the heat exchanger or to the aforementioned wall, the portion of the circulation pipe extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal fins.
Claims13
A hybrid solar panel comprising:
- a photovoltaic module including a front face and a rear face,
- a heat exchanger configured for dissipating thermal energy coming from the photovoltaic module, including a bottom face and a top face, said top face disposed facing the rear face of the photovoltaic module, the heat exchanger further including at least one circulation pipe configured for transporting a heat-transfer fluid and two manifolds, namely an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold, respectively for introducing and discharging the heat-transfer fluid circulating in the circulation pipe,
- a rigid frame framing the photovoltaic module and the heat exchanger,
- at least one elastic element adapted to exert a compression force against the bottom face of the exchanger so that said exchanger is pressed against the rear face of the photovoltaic module,
- the elastic element pushes against at least one support element, said support element connected with the frame so that at least a part of the compression force exerted by the elastic element on the support element is absorbed by said frame,
- the support element is disposed under the exchanger and extends along a width and/or a length of said exchanger,
- wherein that the heat exchanger comprises at least one single-piece section resulting from extrusion, said section comprising a wall forming the aforementioned bottom and top faces of the heat exchanger, and said section includes:
- a plurality of longitudinal fins extending substantially perpendicularly from the aforementioned wall, and
- at least one portion of the circulation pipe directly connected to the aforementioned wall, the portion of the circulation pipe extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal fins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.