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Front Surface Grid Design for High Efficiency Solar Cells

  • Gangopadhyay Utpal;Kim, Kyung-Hae;Basu Prabir Kanti;Dhungel Suresh Kumar;Jung, Sung-Wook;Yia, Jun-Sin
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.78-84
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    • 2005
  • Standard crystalline solar cells are generally fabricated with the front grid pattern of silver paste contact. We have reported a detailed theoretical analysis of the proposed segmented cross grid line pattern in this paper. This work was carried out for the optimization of spacing and width of grid finger, main busbar and sub-busbar. The overall electrical and optical losses due to front contact were brought down to $10\%$ or even less as compared to the usual loss of $15\%$ or more in the conventional screen printed silver paste technology by choosing proper grid pattern and optimizing the grid parameters. The total normalized power loss for segmented mesh grid with plated metal contact was also observed and the total power loss could be brought down to $10.04\%$ unlike $11.57\%$ in the case of continuous grid and plated contact. This paper is able to outline the limitations of conventional screen printed contact.

Efficient Hole Finding Method for Overset Grid System (중첩 격자계의 효율적 Hole Finding 기법)

  • Kim B. S.;Ko S. H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.83-86
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    • 2004
  • In this paper an automated hole-finding method for overset grids is introduced which uses recursive octree-cell division. A graphic program which enables the user to do the hole-cutting with ease is also introduced. Using this program it was found that a proper combination of the level of octree division and vector calculation should be used for efficient and fast hole finding.

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Model-based Analysis of Cell-to-Cell Imbalance Characteristic Parameters in the Battery Pack for Fault Diagnosis and Over-discharge Prognosis (배터리 팩 내부 과방전 사전 진단을 위한 모델기반 셀 간 불균형 특성 파라미터 분석 연구)

  • Park, Jinhyeong;Kim, Jaewon;Lee, Miyoung;Kim, Byoung-Choul;Jung, Sung-Chul;Kim, Jonghoon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.381-389
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    • 2021
  • Most diagnosis approaches rely on historical failure data that might not be feasible in real operating conditions because the battery voltage and internal parameters are nonlinear according to various operating conditions, such as cell-to-cell configuration and initial condition. To overcome this issue, the estimator and the predictor require integrated approaches that consider comprehensive data, with the degradation process and measured data taken into account. In this paper, vector autoregressive models (VAR) with various parameters that affect overdischarge to the cell in the battery pack were constructed, and the cell-to-cell parameters were identified using an adaptive model to analyze the influence of failure prognosis. The theoretical analysis is validated using experimental results in terms of the feasibility and advantages of fault prognosis.

Development of a Flow Analysis Code Using an Unstructured Grid with the Cell-Centered Method

  • Myong, Hyon-Kook;Kim, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.2218-2229
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    • 2006
  • A conservative finite-volume numerical method for unstructured grids with the cell-centered method has been developed for computing flow and heat transfer by combining the attractive features of the existing pressure-based procedures with the advances made in unstructured grid techniques. This method uses an integral form of governing equations for arbitrary convex polyhedra. Care is taken in the discretization and solution procedure to avoid formulations that are cell-shape-specific. A collocated variable arrangement formulation is developed, i.e. all dependent variables such as pressure and velocity are stored at cell centers. For both convective and diffusive fluxes the forms superior to both accuracy and stability are particularly adopted and formulated through a systematic study on the existing approximation ones. Gradients required for the evaluation of diffusion fluxes and for second-order-accurate convective operators are computed by using a linear reconstruction based on the divergence theorem. Momentum interpolation is used to prevent the pressure checkerboarding and a segregated solution strategy is adopted to minimize the storage requirements with the pressure-velocity coupling by the SIMPLE algorithm. An algebraic solver using iterative preconditioned conjugate gradient method is used for the solution of linearized equations. The flow analysis code (PowerCFD) developed by the present method is evaluated for its application to several 2-D structured-mesh benchmark problems using a variety of unstructured quadrilateral and triangular meshes. The present flow analysis code by using unstructured grids with the cell-centered method clearly demonstrate the same accuracy and robustness as that for a typical structured mesh.

Development of 3-D Flow Analysis Code Using Unstructured Grid System (I) - Numerical Method - (비정렬격자계를 사용하는 3차원 유동해석코드 개발 (I) - 수치해석방법 -)

  • Kim, Jong-Tae;Myong, Hyon-Kook
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.9 s.240
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    • pp.1049-1056
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    • 2005
  • A conservative pressure-based finite-volume numerical method has been developed for computing flow and heat transfer by using an unstructured grid system. The method admits arbitrary convex polyhedra. Care is taken in the discretization and solution procedures to avoid formulations that are cell-shape-specific. A collocated variable arrangement formulation is developed, i.e. all dependent variables such as pressure and velocity are stored at cell centers. Gradients required for the evaluation of diffusion fluxes and for second-order-accurate convective operators are found by a novel second-order accurate spatial discretization. Momentum interpolation is used to prevent pressure checkerboarding and the SIMPLE algorithm is used for pressure-velocity coupling. The resulting set of coupled nonlinear algebraic equations is solved by employing a segregated approach, leading to a decoupled set of linear algebraic equations fer each dependent variable, with a sparse diagonally dominant coefficient matrix. These equations are solved by an iterative preconditioned conjugate gradient solver which retains the sparsity of the coefficient matrix, thus achieving a very efficient use of computer resources.

Single cell gap polymer-stabilized blue-phase transflective LCDs using internal nanowire grid polarizer

  • Cui, Hong-Qing;Ye, Zhi-Cheng;Hu, Wei;Lin, Xiao Wen;Chung, T.C.;Jen, Tean-Sen;Lu, Yan-Qing
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 2011
  • Optically isotropic liquid crystal (LC) mixture such as blue-phase LC and nanostructured LC composites exhibit the advantages of fast response time, high contrast ratio and wide-viewing angle due to the induced birefringence along the horizontal electric field. Utilizing this mixture, a novel single cell gap in-plane switching-type polymer-stabilized blue-phase transflective liquid crystal display by embedding the nanowire grid polarizer as a polarization-dependent reflective polarizer in the R region is proposed. This device can be used as a normal black mode without any quarter-wave plate or patterned in-cell phase retarder. Moreover, the transmittance is identical to the reflectance so that it will be suitable for single gamma driving. Detailed electro-optic performances, such as voltage-dependent light efficiency and viewing angle of the proposed device configuration, are investigated.

A Study on the Protective Function Performance Evaluation of Grid-Connected Power Conditioning System for Residential Fuel Cell System (가정용 연료전지시스템 계통연계형 전력변환장치의 보호기능 성능평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Woon;Seo, Won-Seok;Kim, Young-Gyu
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.341-344
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, protective function evaluation was conducted to determine the performance and safety of a power conditioning system(PCS) for 1kW residential fuel cell system. It is essential to have a power quality, grid-connection and safety of PCS. Even though it is under 500ms by KGS-A410 standard, it is shown a rapid response time of 25ms from input under-voltage test. In terms of output over/under-voltage test, it is shown 29.15 and 79.4ms. Especially using anti-islanding test, it is shown all times under 100ms for combination cases of real and reactive power. We confirmed a rapid response characteristics and safety of PCS. The results of this evaluation are being used to develop a new test protocols of PCS.

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DC Offset Current Compensation Method of Transformeless Fuel Cell/PV PCS (무변압기형 연료전지/태양광용 PCS의 직류분 보상기법)

  • Park, Bong-Hee;Kim, Seung-Min;Choi, Ju-Yeop;Choy, Ick;Lee, Sang-Chul;Lee, Dong-Ha;Lee, Young-Kwon
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.92-97
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes DC offset current compensation method of transformerless fuel cell/PV PCS. DC offset current is generated by the unbalanced internal resistance of the switching devices in full bridge topology. The other cause is the sensitivity of the current sensor, which is lower than DSP in resolution. If power converter system has these causes, the AC output current in the inverter will generate the DC offset. In case of transformerless grid-connected inverter system, DC offset current is fatal to grid-side, which results in saturating grid side transformer. Several simulation results show the difficulties of detecting DC offset current. Detecting DC offset current method consists of the differential amplifiers and PWM is compensated by the output of the Op amp circuit with integrator controller. PSIM simulation verifies that the proposed method is simpler and more effective than using low resolution current sensor alone.

Operational Analysis of DC Micro-grid using PSCAD/EMTDC Software (PSCAD/EMTDC를 이용한 DC Micro-grid의 동작 분석)

  • Lee, Ji-Heon;Kwon, Ki-Hyun;Han, Byung-Moon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.07a
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    • pp.446_447
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes operational analysis results of the DC micro-grid using detailed model of distributed generation. Detailed model of wind power generation, photo-voltaic generation, fuel-cell generation was implemented with the user-defined model of PSCAD/EMTDC software that is coded with C-language. Various simulation results confirm that the DC micro-grid can operate without any problem in both the interconnected mode and the islanded mode. The operation analysis result confirms that the DC micro-grid make it feasible to provide power to the load stably.

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