Course: Production of Solar Panels
Code: 3ФЕИТ08026
ECTS points: 6 ECTS
Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hristina Spasevska
Course Goals (acquired competencies): Gain knowledge about types of solar cells, as well as for the production processes of solar panels. Special emphasis is given to strategies that would increase the production of electricity from solar panels.
Course Syllabus: Types of solar cells, materials and technologies for production. Manufacturing processes for solar cells: silicon and thin-layer. Techno-economic analysis of different types of technologies for solar cells production. Technologies to assembling of solar cells. Concentrator solar panels. Methods for testing and standardization. Measures for reducing of production cost of solar panels. Strategies and challenges for increasing the competitiveness of solar panels over other energy sources. The impact of the production and use of solar panels to the environment.
Literature:
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Required Literature |
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Augustin McEvoy, Luis Castaner, Tom Markvart | Solar Cells: Materials, Manufacture and Operation | Academic Press | 2012 |
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D. Yogi Goswami, Frank Kreith, Jan F. Kreider | Principles of Solar Engineering | Taylor & Francis | 2000 |
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3 |
Robert Castellano | Solar Panel Processing | Archives contemporaines | 2012 |
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Additional Literature |
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Author |
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Year |
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Antonio Luque, Stiven Hegedus | Handbook of photovoltaic science and Engineering | Wiley | 203 |
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2 |
Martin Kaltschmitt, Wolfgang Streicher, Andreas Wiese | Renewable Energy: Technology, Economics and Environment | Springer | 2007 |
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3 |
Bent Sørensen | Renewable Energy: Its physics, engineering, use, environmental impacts, economy and planning aspects | Elsevier Science | 2004 |
