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Encapsulant Materials and Their Adoption in Photovoltaic Modules: A Brief Review
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: Received: 28 April 2023 / Approved: 28 April 2023 / Online: 28 April 2023 (10:38:14 CEST)
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Dintcheva, N.T.; Morici, E.; Colletti, C. Encapsulant Materials and Their Adoption in Photovoltaic Modules: A Brief Review. Sustainability 2023, 15, 9453. Dintcheva, N.T.; Morici, E.; Colletti, C. Encapsulant Materials and Their Adoption in Photovoltaic Modules: A Brief Review. Sustainability 2023, 15, 9453.
Abstract
In the last two decades, the continuous ever growing demand for energy has determined a significant development in the production of photovoltaic (PV) modules. Anyway, a critical and very important issue in the module design process is the adoption of suitable encapsulant materials and technologies for cell embedding. Therefore, adopted encapsulants have a significant impact on modules efficiency, stability and reliability, and to ensure the unchanged performance of PV modules in time, the encapsulant materials must be selected properly. The selection of encapsulant materials must maintain a good balance between the encapsulant performance in time and costs, related to materials production and technologies for cells embedding. However, the encapsulants must ensure excellent isolation of active photovoltaic elements by the environment, preserving accurately the PV cells against humidity, oxygen and accidental causes that may compromise the PV modules function. This review provides an overview of different encapsulant materials, their main advantages and disadvantages in adoption for PV production, and also in relation to used encapsulant technologies for cell embedding, additives and the interaction of these materials with other PV components.
Keywords
PV modules; encapsulant materials; cost-performance balance; cells preservation
Subject
Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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