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A Study on the Durability Complement of Lightweight Photovoltaic Module

경량화 태양광 모듈의 내구성 보완에 관한 연구

  • 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)
  • 정태웅 (한국생산기술연구원 스마트에너지나노융합연구그룹) ;
  • 박민준 (한국생산기술연구원 스마트에너지나노융합연구그룹) ;
  • 김한준 (한국생산기술연구원 스마트에너지나노융합연구그룹) ;
  • 송진호 (한국생산기술연구원 스마트에너지나노융합연구그룹) ;
  • 문대한 (한국생산기술연구원 스마트에너지나노융합연구그룹) ;
  • 홍근기 ((주) 신성이엔지 R&D 센터) ;
  • 정채환 (한국생산기술연구원 스마트에너지나노융합연구그룹)
  • Received : 2020.12.23
  • Accepted : 2021.02.04
  • Published : 2021.03.01
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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%.

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