Production of Solar Panels

Објавено: December 12, 2018

Course: Production of Solar Panels

Code3ФЕИТ08026

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:

Required Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Augustin McEvoy, Luis Castaner, Tom Markvart Solar Cells: Materials, Manufacture and Operation Academic Press 2012

2

D. Yogi Goswami, Frank Kreith, Jan F. Kreider Principles of Solar Engineering Taylor & Francis 2000

3

Robert Castellano Solar Panel Processing Archives contemporaines 2012

Additional Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Antonio Luque, Stiven Hegedus Handbook of photovoltaic science and Engineering Wiley 203

2

Martin Kaltschmitt, Wolfgang Streicher, Andreas Wiese Renewable Energy: Technology, Economics and Environment Springer 2007

3

Bent Sørensen Renewable Energy: Its physics, engineering, use, environmental impacts, economy and planning aspects Elsevier Science 2004