• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.68-68
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• 2010

To reduce PV manufacturing costs, the thickness of solar cell is getting thinner. Bow is shown after cooling down the temperature of solder cell. It happens because of different thermal expansion coefficients of different metals. Bowed cell can make micro crack while module processing and it can drop off efficiency of PV module. As thinner solar cell is produced, the thickness of ribbon should be concerned to prevent extra bow. In this paper we investigate the contrast of deflection when we solder different thickness of ribbons on same solar cell. This approach would help to find out the optical thickness of ribbon for particular thickness of solar cell later on.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.50-55
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• 2021

Solar power generation, which is one of the methods of using solar energy, has a high possibility of practical implementation compared to other renewable energy power generation, and it has the characteristic that it can generate as much power as needed in necessary places. In addition, maintenance is easy, unmanned operation is possible, and power management can be performed more efficiently if operated in a hybrid method with existing electric energy. Therefore, in this study, numerical analysis using a computer program was performed to analyze the efficient operation and performance improvement of solar energy of the rotating condensing type solar LED street lamp. As a result, the two-axis tracking type could obtain 15.23 % more electricity per year than the fixed type, and additional auxiliary power generation was required for the fixed type by 19 % per year than the tracking type. As a result of computational fluid dynamics(CFD) simulation for PV module surface temperature prediction, the The surface temperature of the Photovoltaics(PV) module incident surface was predicted to be about 10℃ higher than that of the fixed type.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.121-125
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• 2015

BIPV system is one of the best ways to harness PV module. The BIPV system not only produces electricity, but also acts as a building envelope. Thus, it has the strong point of increasing the economical efficiency by applying the PV modules to the buildings. Bifacial solar cells can convert solar energy to electrical energy from both sides of the module. In addition, it is designed as 3 busbar layout which is the same with ordinary mono-facial soalr cells. Therefore, many of the module manufacturers can easily produce the bifacial solar cells without changing their manufacturing equipment. Moreover, bifacial BIPV system has much potential in building application by utilizing glass to glass structure. However, the performance of bifacial solar cells depends on a variety of factors, ranging from the back surface to surrounding conditions. Therefore, in order to apply bifacial solar cells to buildings, an analysis of bifacial PV module performance should be carried out that includes a consideration of various design elements, and reflects a wide range of installation conditions. As a result it found that the white insulation reflector type can improve the performance of the bifacial BIPV system by 16%, compared to the black insulation reflector type. The performance of the bifacial BIPV was also shown to be influenced by inclination angle, due to changes in both the amount of radiation captured on the front face and the radiation transmitted to the rear face through the transparent space. In this study is limited design condition and installation condition. Accordingly follow-up researches in this part need to be conducted.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.30-35
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• 2008

The purpose of EVA sheet in PV module is to bond or laminate the multiple layers of a module. We studied the influence of EVA sheet gel content on photovoltaic module durability. Gel Content was measured by manufacturing Glass/EVA Sheet/Back Sheet scheme at several curing temperature. Through this experiment, we could confirm that there are changes on Gel Content of EVA Sheet. The transmittance of $140^{\circ}C$/4min process condition was more excellent than the other condition at ultraviolet wavelength range. The thermal stability of $150^{\circ}C$/4min process condition was higher than the other condition.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.1151-1152
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• 2006

In this paper, we examined 10 domestic samples of three different model using thermal, humidity freeze, thermal-endurance and damp heat test under IEC61215 photovoltaic module environmental endurance test condition. Three was almost no changes on power generation. Insulation resistance capacity was much higher than judgement standard but, showed unstable results depending on environmental test items. On external appearance test, there were two models which showed bubble, humidity penetration, seal melted frame phenomenon. From this results, the degree of aging under the external environment is a main cause that shortens photovoltaic module life time. So it is considered that the efforts for finding optimum condition of manufacturing process should be needed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1365-1367
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• 2003

In this paper, element technologies such as soldering. arrangement and lamination processes for photovoltaic module manufacture were examined and described as main processes. Especially solder paste and temperature condition in soldering process, loss factor in arrangement process and process conditions in lamination process are investigated to minimize the electrical loss. As a results, temperature condition in soldering process was found to be critical to contact resistance of electrode and life-time. Productivity of the process decreases dramatically by physical damage during arrangement process. Pressure level and press condition of upper chamber in lamination process were important parameters for the reliability. According to the test result of photovoltaic module, electrical properties dropped about $5{\sim}25%$ after 5 years.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.1465-1467
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• 2004

In this paper, deduced manufacturing condition of glass/glass curtain wall module and metal curtain wall module. From the results. lamination condition of glass/glass curtain wall module deduced optimum in pumping $time-120^{\circ}C$ 23min, slow $press-120^{\circ}C$. 300mmHg. 3min. standard $press-120^{\circ}C$. 200mmHg. 0.5min. fast $press-120^{\circ}C$. 100mmHg. 0.3min and $curing-140^{\circ}C$, 6min, and lamination condition of metal curtain wall module deduced optimum in pumping $time-120^{\circ}C$. 8min, slow $press-120^{\circ}C$, 700mmHg. 0.5min, standard $press-120^{\circ}C$, 600mmHg, 0.5min. fast $press-120^{\circ}C$, 100mmHg. 1.5min and $curing-140^{\circ}C$. 6min. This time. power uniformity of glass/glass curtain wall module and metal curtain wall module showed each ${\pm}2.7\%,\;{\pm}2.12\%$.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.111-115
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• 2022

For the high efficiency of the photovoltaic module, a high-output solar cell, which is the basis of photovoltaic power generation, is required. As the light receiving area of the solar cell increases, the light receiving area of the photovoltaic module also increases. Accordingly, recent trend is to use large-area solar cells such as M6 and M8 instead of M2-based solar cells for manufacturing the photovoltaic module and a study on the mechanical stiffness of the module with increased size is required. In this study, a mechanical load test corresponding to IEC-61215 was performed among the reliability tests of large-area photovoltaic modules. In order to confirm the degree to which the mechanical load test affects the photovoltaic module, the output and EL images were checked by sequentially increasing the pressure by 600 Pa at a pressure of 2400 Pa. Also, factors such as output and efficiency of large-area photovoltaic modules were verified through mechanical load testing of actual large-area photovoltaic modules and the rate of change was very small at 1%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.405-409
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• 2003

We explored a new rough grinding technique on optics materials such as Zerodur. The facility used is a NANOFORM-600 diamond turning machine with a custom grinding module and range of diamond resin bond wheel. The grinding parameters such as workpiece rotation speed depth of cut and feed rate were altered while grinding the workpiece surfaces of 20m in diameter. Surface roughness is measured by Form Talysurf series2. Our target is to define grinding conditions producing the surface roughness better than 0.02${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ Ra and the form accuracy of around 0.2${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ PV.

• Clean Technology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.203-209
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• 2022

An environmental evaluation was conducted by employing LCA methodology for a mechanical seal manufacturing process that uses recycled silicon recovered from end-of-cycle PV modules. The recycled silicon was purified and reacted with carbon to synthesize β-SiC particles. Then the particles underwent compression molding, calcination and heat treatment to produce a product. Field data were collected and the potential environmental impacts of each stage were calculated using the LCI DB of the Ministry of Environment. The assessment was based on 6 categories, which were abiotic resource depletion, acidification, eutrophication, global warming, ozone depletion and photochemical oxidant creation. The environmental impacts by category were 45 kg CO₂ for global warming and 2.23 kg C₂H₄ for photochemical oxide creation, and the overall environmental impact by photochemical oxide creation, resource depletion and global warming had a high contribution of 98.7% based on weighted analysis. The wet process of fine grinding and mixing the raw silicon and carbon, and SiC granulation were major factors that caused the environmental impacts. These impacts need to be reduced by converting to a dry process and using a system to recover and reuse the solvent emitted to the atmosphere. It was analyzed that the environmental impacts of resource depletion and global warming decreased by 53.9% and 60.7%, respectively, by recycling silicon from end-of-cycle PV modules. Weighted analysis showed that the overall environmental impact decreased by 27%, and the LCA analysis confirmed that recycling waste modules could be a major means of resource saving and realizing carbon neutrality.