Dr Nazmi Sellami's Outputs (68)

Promoting the Solar Industry in Ghana through Effective Public-Private Partnership (PPP): Some Lessons from South Africa and Morocco (2021)
Journal Article
Amo Awuku, S., Bennadji, A., Muhammad Sukki, F., & Sellami, N. (2022). Promoting the Solar Industry in Ghana through Effective Public-Private Partnership (PPP): Some Lessons from South Africa and Morocco. Energies, 15(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15010017

Over the past decades, solar energy has gained much attention in Ghana, especially after the 2012–2016 power crisis. The government through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) has attempted to increase the shares of solar generation to augment its eff... Read More about Promoting the Solar Industry in Ghana through Effective Public-Private Partnership (PPP): Some Lessons from South Africa and Morocco.

A blend of Traditional Visual Symbols in BIPV application; any Prospects? (2021)
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Awuku, S. A., Bennadji, A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Sellami, N. (2021). A blend of Traditional Visual Symbols in BIPV application; any Prospects?. Academia Letters, https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4029

Traditional Visual symbols are of great relevance, especially within the architectural space. Buildings may adopt symbols to depict culture, iconicity or identity. The quest to meet sustainable building targets and avert the looming effects of climat... Read More about A blend of Traditional Visual Symbols in BIPV application; any Prospects?.

Myth or Gold? The Power of Aesthetics in the adoption of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs) (2021)
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Awuku, S. A., Bennadji, A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Sellami, N. (2021). Myth or Gold? The Power of Aesthetics in the adoption of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs). Energy nexus: water, food and power, 4, Article 100021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nexus.2021.100021

BIPV has gained a lot of attention in the solar world especially in recent times as the push for Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) and concerns about landscape aesthetics increases. Aesthetics plays a critical role in the adoption of BIPVs as i... Read More about Myth or Gold? The Power of Aesthetics in the adoption of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs).

Large-scale manufacturing route to metamaterial coatings using thermal spray techniques and their response to solar radiation (2021)
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Faisal, N. H., Sellami, N., Venturi, F., Hussain, T., Mallick, T., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Bishop, A., Upadhyaya, H., Katiyar, N. K., & Goel, S. (2021). Large-scale manufacturing route to metamaterial coatings using thermal spray techniques and their response to solar radiation. Emergent Materials, 4, 1619-1633. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-021-00252-z

Metamaterials, an artificial periodic two-or three-dimensional configuration can change propagation characteristics of electromagnetic waves (i.e., reflection, transmission, absorption). The current challenges in the field of metamaterial coatings ar... Read More about Large-scale manufacturing route to metamaterial coatings using thermal spray techniques and their response to solar radiation.

Performance Improvement of a CPV System: Experimental Investigation into Passive Cooling with Phase Change Materials (2021)
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Sharma, S., Sellami, N., Tahir, A. A., Mallick, T. K., & Bhakar, R. (2021). Performance Improvement of a CPV System: Experimental Investigation into Passive Cooling with Phase Change Materials. Energies, 14(12), Article 3550. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14123550

High temperature and overheating of photovoltaic panels lead to efficiency losses and eventual degradation. For solar PV systems, this is a significant impediment for achieving economic viability. In this study, a novel Window-Integrated Concentrated... Read More about Performance Improvement of a CPV System: Experimental Investigation into Passive Cooling with Phase Change Materials.

State-of-the-Art Review on the Energy Performance of Semi-Transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic across a Range of Different Climatic and Environmental Conditions (2021)
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Khalifeeh, R., Alrashidi, H., Sellami, N., Mallick, T., & Issa, W. (2021). State-of-the-Art Review on the Energy Performance of Semi-Transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic across a Range of Different Climatic and Environmental Conditions. Energies, 14(12), Article 3412. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14123412

Semi-transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaics provide a fresh approach to the renewable energy sector, combining the potential of energy generation with aesthetically pleasing, multi-functional building components. Employing a range of technolog... Read More about State-of-the-Art Review on the Energy Performance of Semi-Transparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic across a Range of Different Climatic and Environmental Conditions.

Mathematical Modelling of a Static Concentrating Photovoltaic: Simulation and Experimental Validation (2021)
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Muhammad-Sukki, F., Zulkipli, M., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., Bani, N. A., Kilpatrick, C., Sellami, N., Abu-Bakar, S. H., Ardila-Rey, J. A., & Farooq, H. (2021). Mathematical Modelling of a Static Concentrating Photovoltaic: Simulation and Experimental Validation. Applied Sciences, 11(9), Article 3894. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11093894

For the past twenty years, there has been increasing interest and investment in solar pho-tovoltaic (PV) technology. One particular area of interest is the development of concentrating PV (CPV), especially for use in building integration. Many CPV de... Read More about Mathematical Modelling of a Static Concentrating Photovoltaic: Simulation and Experimental Validation.

Experimental Investigation of a Novel Absorptive/Reflective Solar Concentrator: A Thermal Analysis (2020)
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Dayanand, A., Aykapadathu, M., Sellami, N., & Nazarinia, M. (2020). Experimental Investigation of a Novel Absorptive/Reflective Solar Concentrator: A Thermal Analysis. Energies, 13(5), Article 1281. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13051281

This paper presents the experimental investigation of a novel cross-compound parabolic concentrator (CCPC). For the first time, a CCPC module was designed to simultaneously work as an electricity generator and collect the thermal energy present in th... Read More about Experimental Investigation of a Novel Absorptive/Reflective Solar Concentrator: A Thermal Analysis.

Modelling photovoltaic soiling losses through optical characterization (2020)
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Smestad, G. P., Germer, T. A., Alrashidi, H., Fernández, E. F., Dey, S., Brahma, H., Sarmah, N., Ghosh, A., Sellami, N., Hassan, I. A., & et al. (2020). Modelling photovoltaic soiling losses through optical characterization. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56868-z

The accumulation of soiling on photovoltaic (PV) modules affects PV systems worldwide. Soiling consists of mineral dust, soot particles, aerosols, pollen, fungi and/or other contaminants that deposit on the surface of PV modules. Soiling absorbs, sca... Read More about Modelling photovoltaic soiling losses through optical characterization.

Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate (2019)
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Alrashidi, H., Ghosh, A., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate. Solar Energy, 195, 536-543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.11.084

Semi-transparent photovoltaic (PV) technology is attractive for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) due to its ability to lower the admitted solar heat gain, to control the penetrating daylight and to generate onsite benevolent direct current po... Read More about Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate.

Performance assessment of cadmium telluride-based semi-transparent glazing for power saving in façade buildings (2019)
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Alrashidi, H., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Ghosh, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Performance assessment of cadmium telluride-based semi-transparent glazing for power saving in façade buildings. Energy and Buildings, 215, Article 109585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109585

Façade buildings are generally highly glazed and energy-intensive especially in countries with hot weather. Power consumption in these buildings is even more significant when air conditioning (AC) is added to the figures. Building with semi-transpare... Read More about Performance assessment of cadmium telluride-based semi-transparent glazing for power saving in façade buildings.

Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing (2018)
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Alrashidi, H., Ghosh, A., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing. Materials Letters, 237, 332-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.11.128

Solar and luminous light transmission control using Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) based PV glazing systems (15cm × 15cm × 0.6cm) were evaluated in this work. Indoor spectral characterisation showed that average solar transmission for investigated three di... Read More about Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing.

Design and Fabrication of Absorptive/Reflective Crossed CPC PV/T System (2018)
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Aykapadathu, M., Nazarinia, M., & Sellami, N. (2018). Design and Fabrication of Absorptive/Reflective Crossed CPC PV/T System. Designs, 2(3), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2030029

A crossed compound parabolic concentrator (CCPC) is a non-imaging concentrator which is a modified form of a circular 3D compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) obtained by orthogonal intersection of two 2D CPCs that have an optical efficiency in line... Read More about Design and Fabrication of Absorptive/Reflective Crossed CPC PV/T System.

A unified global investigation on the spectral effects of soiling losses of PV glass substrates: preliminary results (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Micheli, L., Fernández, E. F., Smestad, G. P., Alrashidi, H., Sarmah, N., Sellami, N., Hassan, I. A., Kasry, A., Nofuentes, G., Sood, N., & et al. (2017, June). A unified global investigation on the spectral effects of soiling losses of PV glass substrates: preliminary results. Presented at 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), Washington, DC, USA

The present work reports on the initial results of an international collaboration aiming to investigate the spectral effects of soiling losses. Identical glass coupons have been exposed outdoors for eight weeks in different locations worldwide, and w... Read More about A unified global investigation on the spectral effects of soiling losses of PV glass substrates: preliminary results.

Natural convective heat transfer in a walled CCPC with PV cell (2017)
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Li, W., Paul, M. C., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Knox, A. (2017). Natural convective heat transfer in a walled CCPC with PV cell. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 10, 499-516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2017.10.009

The natural convective heat transfer phenomenon in an isolated, walled CCPC with PV cell is studied experimentally at 1000 W/m2 irradiance and 28.5 °C ambient temperature as well as 0°, 10°, 20°, 30° and 40° incidences in indoor laboratory by using s... Read More about Natural convective heat transfer in a walled CCPC with PV cell.

An Experimental Investigation into Passive Temperature Regulation of a Novel WICPV System with Phase Change Material (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharma, S., Sellami, N., Tahir, A., & Mallick, T. (2016, June). An Experimental Investigation into Passive Temperature Regulation of a Novel WICPV System with Phase Change Material. Presented at 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Munich, Germany

A novel Window-Integrated Concentrated Photovoltaic (WICPV) system proposed suitable for window integration, has been fabricated and characterised at 1000 Wm-2 (higher irradiance)and 500 Wm-2 (lower irradiance). This paper investigates the use of a c... Read More about An Experimental Investigation into Passive Temperature Regulation of a Novel WICPV System with Phase Change Material.

Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal performance of a crossed compound parabolic concentrator with PV cell (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, W., Paul, M., Sellami, N., Mallick, T., & Knox, A. (2016, July). Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal performance of a crossed compound parabolic concentrator with PV cell. Presented at 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Malaga, Spain

Crossed compound parabolic concentrator (CCPC) is a solar energy device used to increase the photovoltaic (PV) cell electrical power output. CCPC’s thermal and optical performance issues are equally important for a PV cell or module to work under a f... Read More about Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal performance of a crossed compound parabolic concentrator with PV cell.

Six-parameter electrical model for photovoltaic cell/module with compound parabolic concentrator (2016)
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Li, W., Paul, M. C., Sellami, N., Sweet, T., Montecucco, A., Siviter, J., Baig, H., Gao, M., Mallick, T., & Knox, A. (2016). Six-parameter electrical model for photovoltaic cell/module with compound parabolic concentrator. Solar Energy, 137, 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.08.050

It is known that compound parabolic concentrators (CPCs) can improve electrical performance of a photovoltaic (PV) flat-plate system. However, a lumped electrical model of a PV cell/module with CPC for assessing performance under different operating... Read More about Six-parameter electrical model for photovoltaic cell/module with compound parabolic concentrator.

Scalable solar thermoelectrics and photovoltaics (SUNTRAP) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sweet, T. K., Rolley, M., Min, G., Knox, A., Gregory, D., Paul, D., Paul, M., Montecucco, A., Siviter, J., Mullen, P., & et al. (2016, April). Scalable solar thermoelectrics and photovoltaics (SUNTRAP). Presented at 12th International Conference On Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems (CPV-12), Freiburg, Germany

This paper presents the design, manufacture and electrical test of a novel integrated III:V low concentrator photovoltaic and thermoelectric device for enhanced solar energy harvesting efficiency. The PCB-based platform is a highly reliable means of... Read More about Scalable solar thermoelectrics and photovoltaics (SUNTRAP).

Experimental performance of concentrating photovoltaic thermal module (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adeilla, S., Sellami, N., & Tapas, M. (2016, March). Experimental performance of concentrating photovoltaic thermal module. Presented at 2016 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), Hammamet, Tunisia

A concentrating photovoltaic thermal system is composed of multiple concentrator modules which designed with wide acceptance angle such (Hyperbolic Profile) to collect high illumination flux that can be used for building integrated applications, in o... Read More about Experimental performance of concentrating photovoltaic thermal module.