PDF Publication Title:
Text from PDF Page: 061
PV Module Reliability R&D Performing Organizations: National Renewable Energy Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories Key Technical Contacts: Roland Hulstrom (NREL, Primary Contact), 303-384-6420, roland_hulstrom@nrel.gov David King (SNL), 505-299-9184, dlking@sandia.gov DOE HQ Technology Manager: Jeffrey Mazer, 202-586-2455, jeffrey.mazer@hq.doe.gov FY 2004 Budgets: $2,544K (NREL), $965K (SNL) _____________________________________________________________________________________ Objectives • Isolate, scientifically understand, and help industry mitigate module failure and/or degradation mechanisms. • Gather and analyze outdoor, long-term, reliability/performance data for all candidate module technologies. • Use advanced indoor and outdoor accelerated exposure stress testing to discover and/or replicate observed outdoor failures and performance degradation. • Develop improved module packaging materials and designs that result in at least 25-year service lifetimes, lower costs, and acceptable long-term performance. • Assist industry with developing and implementing consensus standards and codes for module performance ratings and qualification testing. • Characterize and provide models for PV module performance and reliability for a range of field/application conditions. Accomplishments • Completed accelerated testing program (thermal cycling, UV exposure, humidity-freeze cycling, damp heat, and light-soaking) for several CdTe modules and provided results and conclusions to the manufacturer. • Completed accelerated testing program (thermal cycling, damp heat, and surface cuts) for a group of advanced prototype crystalline silicon modules and provided results and conclusions to the manufacturer. • Continued an intensive effort in support of NREL’s thin-film module hot and humid, long-term outdoor reliability testing program. NREL and SNL provided detailed baseline characterizations of more than 180 modules from 4 manufacturers prior to field deployment at the hot and humid test sites (Florida and Texas). • Completed an advanced indoor module light-soaking apparatus and used it to collect and publish data on a-Si and CdTe modules. Capabilities will be used, in collaboration with industry partners, to improve characterization of module light-soaking behavior. • Evaluated more than 20 module backsheet and encapsulant materials for their moisture barrier and adhesion properties. Several promising packaging material and design candidates were identified, and results were published in a report to industry. • Developed a new mathematical model to project the time-phased ingress of water vapor (moisture) into module backsheet and encapsulant materials, based on laboratory measurements of material diffusivity and solubility. This model can now be used to predict how long a given module packaging design will prevent moisture from reaching the PV material/absorber.PDF Image | FY 2004 ANNUAL REPORT DOE Solar
PDF Search Title:
FY 2004 ANNUAL REPORT DOE SolarOriginal File Name Searched:
36804.pdfDIY PDF Search: Google It | Yahoo | Bing
NFT (Non Fungible Token): Buy our tech, design, development or system NFT and become part of our tech NFT network... More Info
IT XR Project Redstone NFT Available for Sale: NFT for high tech turbine design with one part 3D printed counter-rotating energy turbine. Be part of the future with this NFT. Can be bought and sold but only one design NFT exists. Royalties go to the developer (Infinity) to keep enhancing design and applications... More Info
Infinity Turbine IT XR Project Redstone Design: NFT for sale... NFT for high tech turbine design with one part 3D printed counter-rotating energy turbine. Includes all rights to this turbine design, including license for Fluid Handling Block I and II for the turbine assembly and housing. The NFT includes the blueprints (cad/cam), revenue streams, and all future development of the IT XR Project Redstone... More Info
Infinity Turbine ROT Radial Outflow Turbine 24 Design and Worldwide Rights: NFT for sale... NFT for the ROT 24 energy turbine. Be part of the future with this NFT. This design can be bought and sold but only one design NFT exists. You may manufacture the unit, or get the revenues from its sale from Infinity Turbine. Royalties go to the developer (Infinity) to keep enhancing design and applications... More Info
Infinity Supercritical CO2 10 Liter Extractor Design and Worldwide Rights: The Infinity Supercritical 10L CO2 extractor is for botanical oil extraction, which is rich in terpenes and can produce shelf ready full spectrum oil. With over 5 years of development, this industry leader mature extractor machine has been sold since 2015 and is part of many profitable businesses. The process can also be used for electrowinning, e-waste recycling, and lithium battery recycling, gold mining electronic wastes, precious metals. CO2 can also be used in a reverse fuel cell with nafion to make a gas-to-liquids fuel, such as methanol, ethanol and butanol or ethylene. Supercritical CO2 has also been used for treating nafion to make it more effective catalyst. This NFT is for the purchase of worldwide rights which includes the design. More Info
NFT (Non Fungible Token): Buy our tech, design, development or system NFT and become part of our tech NFT network... More Info
Infinity Turbine Products: Special for this month, any plans are $10,000 for complete Cad/Cam blueprints. License is for one build. Try before you buy a production license. May pay by Bitcoin or other Crypto. Products Page... More Info
| CONTACT TEL: 608-238-6001 Email: greg@infinityturbine.com | RSS | AMP |