CAREER: Energy in Sustainable Infrastructure - Multi-scale/physical Approach to a Novel Hybrid Solar Roofing Panel

该学院早期职业发展(CALEAR)项目将通过研究太阳能屋顶材料的多物理性质，通过实验和建模方法来调查和改善基础设施的可持续性，并制造出具有优化多功能的新型太阳能屋顶板。该电池板将包含一个光伏层，沉积在热电层上，然后通过含有水管的功能梯度夹层与塑料木材基材粘合。太阳能电池板的热传递和热机械行为将通过实验和多尺度/物理模型来表征。在壁板的结构设计中，将对分层和层内开裂进行研究和模拟。将引入一个基于内部变量的模型来描述长期业绩。这个职业项目的长期教育目标是在研究生、本科生和预科水平的下一代研究人员和工程师中促进可持续工程。该职业项目将开发几个与太阳能收集的建筑一体化可持续基础设施有关的教育组成部分，并提高对作为应对全球能源和气候挑战的可行解决办法的新的具有成本效益的方法的认识。将实施三种战略方法：1)开发整合材料制造、仪器开发、实验室测试和技术创新的跨学科本科和研究生课程；2)与哈莱姆社区的一所公立学校建立合作关系，在人数不足的青年中促进与可持续基础设施和可再生能源有关的STEM研究课程工作；3)提高公众对原创研究在开发和实施可持续能源和建筑解决方案中的作用的理解和认识。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project will investigate and improve infrastructure sustainability with experimental and modeling approaches by studying the multi-physical properties of solar roofing materials and fabricate a novel solar roofing panel with optimized multifunction. The panel will contain a photovoltaic layer deposited on a thermoelectric layer and then bonded to a plastic lumber substrate through a functionally graded interlayer containing water tubes. Heat transfer and thermo-mechanical behavior of the solar panel will be characterized by experiments and multi-scale/physical modeling. Delamination and in-layer cracking will be investigated and simulated for the structural design of the panels. An internal variable based model will be introduced to describe the long-term performance. The long-term educational goal of this CAREER project is to promote sustainable engineering among the next generation of researchers and engineers at the graduate, undergraduate and pre-collegiate levels. This CAREER project will develop several educational components related to architecturally integrated sustainable infrastructure for harvesting solar energy and increase awareness of novel cost effective approaches that serve as viable solutions for global energy and climate challenges. Three strategic approaches will be implemented: 1) develop interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate curricula that integrate material manufacturing, instrumentation development, laboratory testing, and technology innovation; 2) establish collaboration with a public school in the Harlem community to promote STEM research course work related to sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy among underrepresented youth, and; 3) increase public understanding and awareness of the role of original research in the development and implementation of sustainable energy and building solutions.