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http://dx.doi.org/10.4313/JKEM.2021.34.2.110

A Study on the Durability Complement of Lightweight Photovoltaic Module  

Jeong, Taewung (Smart Energy & Nano R&D Group, Korea Institute of industrial Technology)
Park, Min-Joon (Smart Energy & Nano R&D Group, Korea Institute of industrial Technology)
Kim, Hanjun (Smart Energy & Nano R&D Group, Korea Institute of industrial Technology)
Song, Jinho (Smart Energy & Nano R&D Group, Korea Institute of industrial Technology)
Moon, Daehan (Smart Energy & Nano R&D Group, Korea Institute of industrial Technology)
Hong, Kuen Kee (R&D Center, Shinsung E&G Co., Ltd.)
Jeong, Chaehwan (Smart Energy & Nano R&D Group, Korea Institute of industrial Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers / v.34, no.2, 2021 , pp. 110-114 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we fabricated light-weight solar module for various applications such as building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), vehicles, trains, etc. Ethylene tetra fluoro ethylene (ETFE) film was applied as a material to replace the cover glass, which occupies more than 65% of the weight of the PV module. Glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP) was applied to the ones with a low durability by replacing the cover glass to ETFE. Moreover, to achieve a high solar power conversion in this study, we applied a shingled design to weight reduced solar modules. The shingled module with GRP shows 183.7 W of solar-to-power conversion, and the output reduction rate after weight load test was 1.14%.
Keywords
Photovoltaic; Light-weight solar module; ETFE; Shingled; GRP;
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