TY  - THES
U1  - Master Thesis
A1  - Soni, Bhavin
T1  - Investigation of market potential of polymer based PVT collector
N2  - For sustainable climate, an exponential growth in renewable heating and cooling is compulsory to reduce consumption of the fossil fuels for production of heat. An essential step from European Commission as an introduction of the strategy for renewable heat has
given a platform to the solar thermal market to tap the highest possible potential. To grab the opportunity given, capacity of the production is to be increased as well as reduction in cost of solar thermal product is to be achieved by any suitable alternate means. Polymer
based hybrid collector, named as OPVT collector, is the innovation from Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems to break the road blocks for the solar thermal market. A polymer solar cell and a polymer solar thermal collector, both, technologies have tendency
of high initial investments and extremely low running cost in business. The aims of this study were to develop a calculation tool for determination of production cost of different OPVT collector concepts and evaluate their potential with reference to market size. The tool was expected to be uniform for all possible concepts of OPVT collector and flexible in
usage during the early stage of technological development. In this study, “Microsoft Excel” software based calculation tool is developed for estimation of production cost for different concepts. A Car washing station for water based OPVT collector and a bus station for air based OPVT collector are found be most suitable for start-up of the business. The analysis of results has highlighted that the minimum cost of OPVT collector can be referenced as its material cost. The OPVT collector business has huge potential and
possibility of early break-even point in the 
production. As production costs are sensitive to 
material costs, input values to the tool must be accurate. Presence of dominance of the material cost 
is due to high cost of OPV. In industry, OPV is still being considered as the technological product instead the commodity product. This market potential study for
OPVT collector technology has been the important step in giving the confidence to solar thermal, polymer and plastic processing industries for business investment.
Keywords – OPVT collector, production cost, calculation tool, market size
KW  - OPVT collector
KW  - Production cost
KW  - PVT Solar thermal collector
Y2  - 2017
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-10888
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-10888
SP  - 102
S1  - 102
ER  -