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Record W4409078394 · doi:10.33697/ajur.2025.133

Investigation of a Photovoltaic Thermal-Direct Expansion Solar-Assisted Heat Pump (PVT-DXSAHP) Collector with Different Photovoltaic Characteristics in Cold Climates

2025· article· en· W4409078394 on OpenAlexaff
Adam Anastas, Aggrey Mwesigye

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Undergraduate Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicSolar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhotovoltaic systemPhotovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collectorMaterials scienceThermalEngineering physicsSolar cableEnvironmental scienceNuclear engineeringSolar mirrorMeteorologyEngineeringElectrical engineeringPhysics

Abstract

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In this paper, the performance of a direct expansion solar-assisted heat pump (DX-SAHP) with a photovoltaic thermal (PVT) collector made with different solar cells was investigated. A thermodynamic model of a direct expansion solar-assisted heat pump with a PVT collector and a 180 L water tank for thermal energy storage was developed. The model was implemented in MATLAB, with the CoolProp library for the retrieval of working fluid thermodynamic properties. The solar collector cells considered were ®Solartech, ®LG, ®Prime, ®VOLT, and ®VSUN. The performance of the system is characterized by the coefficient of performance, thermal efficiency, electrical efficiency, heat pump ratio and auxiliary heat ratio. The highest average coefficient of performance of the heat pump was with ®Solartech solar cells on a sunny day in winter was 4.08 , and 7.91 on a sunny summer day. On a cloudy summer day, the ®Prime solar cell had the highest average coefficient of performance at 6.45. The highest electrical efficiency of the collector was observed with ®Prime solar cells, with an efficiency of 14.4%, 16.5% and 13.6%, respectively, from a sunny day in winter, a sunny day in summer and a cloudy day in the summer. The highest thermal efficiency was obtained by ®Solartech solar cells for all weather conditions. With a collector area of 5 m2 and a consumer load of 0.001 kg/s, the heat pump meets an average of 15.6% of the total heat needed for domestic hot water demand on a sunny winter day. This increases to 38.2% and 49.0% on cloudy and sunny summer days, respectively. KEYWORDS: Coefficient of Performance; Direct Expansion; Heat Pump Ratio; Photovoltaic Thermal ; Water Heating; Solar-Assisted Heat Pump

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.041
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.260 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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