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As the solar power generation system expands, researches on the development and production technology of solar modules are being actively conducted. In addition, in the production of polysilicon for solar modules, a high-purity carbon electrode is essential, which greatly affects the performance and productivity of the solar module. This research is about the development of a carbon electrode used to manufacture high-purity polysilicon rod, which is essential for the manufacture of the photovoltaic modules. Fine graphite chuck is used as a carbon electrode. Generally, it is a consumable material that is used once and discarded. Therefore, this study aimed to develop an assembly-type high purity graphite chuck that can recycle some resources to dramatically improve the utilization of resources. In order to maintain the purity and performance of polysilicon, the composition and performance of the graphite chuck are important. The fine graphite chuck is manufactured through the high-purification process after precision machining, and the performance is confirmed through the component analysis of the specimen. At about 5,000 nm or more from the surface, the compositions of the sample appeared almost constant, and a high purity sample satisfying the target specification was obtained. In addition, it was confirmed that the cost reduction could be achieved by designing the graphite electrode as a separable type, and the results of this study can be applied to the design of the fine graphite chuck for the production of high purity polysilicon.

This paper proposes an algorithm to optimize a solar module optimizer's efficiency using the buck-boost functionality of a full-bridge converter. Given that the electrical characteristics of solar modules can vary significantly based on environmental conditions, it is necessary to have the capability to individually adjust each module's voltage and current. A fullbridge converter allows dynamic adjustment of input voltage to maintain optimal power output for each module and optimize the overall current of the system when modules are connected in series. The proposed algorithm was verified through MATLAB/Simulink simulations, demonstrating that it can increase total power production by up to 20%. This research contributes to enhancing the performance of solar power generation systems under various environmental conditions. Future studies will involve actual hardware implementation to further validate the algorithm and explore the application of different maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods.

폐 태양광 전지내의 구리리본전극으로부터 구리를 회수하기 위해 불활성 가스분위기하에서 300-600oC로 열처리 하였다. 구리리본전극의 코팅층은 68.99 wt.%의 납과 31.21 wt.%의 주석으로 구성되어 있는데, 각각의 온도에서 코팅층을 용해한 후 반응도가니에 용해된 코팅층 회수하였다. 열처리 후 회수되어진 코팅층은 ICP-MS (Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry)로 성분 분석을 실시하였으며, 온도범위에 관계없이 95 wt.% 이상의 구리순도를 얻을 수 있었다. 구리리본전극 샘플의 횡단면은 SEM (scanning electron microscopy) and EDX (energy dispersive X-ray microscopy)로 관찰하였다.

The recovery of copper from spent photovoltaic ribbon was conducted using thermal treatment method at the range of temperature of 300oC to 600oC under inert atmosphere. The coating layer consisted of lead of 68.99 wt.% and tin of 31.21 wt.% was melted down at elevated temperatures and was collected on the bottom of crucible. The chemical composition of copper ribbon after thermal treatment was analyzed by ICP-MS (Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) and the purity of copper was found to be obtained up to about 96 wt.% regardless of temperatures. The cross-sectional area of the specimen was also examined by SEM (scanning electron microscopy) and EDX (energy dispersive X-ray microscopy).

최근 사람이 다수 붐비는 지역에 스마트 폰이나, 태블릿 등을 바로 충전할 수 있는 태양광 모듈이 설치되어 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 하지만 설치비용이 높아 이용인원이 적은 지역에 설치 할 경우 비용측면에서 부담이 되며, 협소한 지역에는 설치가 어려운 문제점이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 국가에서 제공하는 데이터와, 실제 환경에서 수집한 데이터를 이용하여 각 지역에 해당 서비스를 제공받는 사람에 대한 정보를 분석 한 후 대기시간 및 태양광 충전시간을 고려하여 환경에 맞는 최적의 전력을 수집 및 제공하는 시스템을 제안하였다. 실험결과 수집전력이 충전전력량보다 상회하여 충전이 지연되지 않았으며, 약 95분경에 스마트 폰의 전력을 모두 충전할 수 있음을 확인하였으며, 버스 대기시간인 10분에서 20분 사이에 스마트 폰이 한 대일 경우 약 50%가량을 충전할 수 있으며, 여러 대일 경우 약 20%가량을 충전할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

Recently, solar module is installed in crowded areas to offers services so that people can charge their smartphones or tablets. However, the burden in terms of cost is high to install in areas where utilization ratio is low and installation is difficult in limited spaces. In this paper, a system for collecting and providing the optical power is proposed from the analysis about the person that receives service in each area using the real-time data provided by the state and collected from the actual environment as well as considering the waiting time and the solar charging time in different environments. As a result, This study shows that charge was not delayed since collecting power exceeds charging power. Smartphone was fully charged in ninety-five minutes. we confirmed that with one smartphone, it can be charged a approximately fifty percent of the battery in between ten to twenty minutes, with multiple units they can be charged a approximately twenty percent of the battery in between ten to twenty minutes.

본 논문은 효과적인 태양광 모듈 에지 학습 데이터를 준비하기 위한 어노테이션 도구의 개발을 설명하고자 한다. 어노테이션 도구를 사용하면 딥러닝 네트워크에서 에지 정보를 학습하기 위한 학습 데이터 준비 프로세스의 편의성을 높이고 학습 데이터의 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제시한 프로그램 활용을 통해 효과적인 학습 데이터를 준비하여 딥러닝 기반 태양광 모듈의 엣지 포지션을 도출하는 연구에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다

For the exhaustion of petrochemical energy in the whole world, the need to develop new & renewable energy has been growing. Scientists still do research to develop new & renewable energy, most of all, solar energy. Because a solar condenser mostly should be installed on a roof or floor, so it is greatly affected by wind. Nevertheless, the standard to install the solar condenser is not arranged. Therefore, we conducted a wind tunnel experiment (test) to investigate the differences of wind pressure that the solar condenser got according to angle variations and deduct the proper standard to install. In the experiment, it was used that solar array models of 5x3 and 3x5, and it was conducted by changing each angle to 30°, 35°, and 40°.

As an importance of new and renewable energy increases, scientists are actively studying photovoltaic system. Nevertheless solar collector, an important part of photovoltaic systems, has been ignored by people. Even though there is need of study to make up for the weak points. Solar collectors, which is installed on house surface usually roof, are easily effected by wind but wind pressures of solar collector are not included in KBC2009. Therefor, we made solar collector model and conducted on wind pressure test in wind tunnel facility and investigated how the model is being effected by four seasons at two different places such as roof and ground. Based on these results, basic wind pressure distribution of the solar collector module is provided. This can be useful data for the wind resistant design of solar collector module.

The manually adjustable support structural system with the additional variable joints in the lower columns is presented for the slope variation of solar panels. Also, it is important to select the optimal members considering the safety of the support structure according to the various design variables. Therefore, this study presents the optimal module through the structural modelling and analysis of the adjustable support structures with the design variables.

As semitransparent dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have advanced to large-scale applications from lab-level research, the large-scale performance has attracted much attention. Modules of DSSCs have been investigated to optimize the efficiency as a TiO2 systhesis temperature and a surface treatment of TiCl4 aqueous solution. Essentially, these semitransparent modules have an extended structure with lab-scale works with the exception of the dimensions and methods for the series connection. The 5 cm×6.5 cm modules have shown an efficiency of about 6% without a scattering layer. While the fill factors

Purpose: Short-circuit current of a solar module that is widely used as a power source for wireless environmental sensors is proportional to solar radiation although there are a lot of factors affecting the short-circuit current. The objective of this study is to develop a model for estimating solar radiation for using the solar module as a power source and an irradiance sensor. Methods: An experiment system collected data on the short-circuit current and environmental factors (ambient temperature, cloud cover and solar radiation) during 65 days. Based on these data, two linear regression models and a non-linear regression model were developed and evaluated. Results: The best model was a linear regression model with short-circuit current, angle of incidence and cloud cover and its overall RMSE(Root Means Square Error) was 66.671 $W/m^2$. The other linear model (RMSE 69.038 $W/m^2$) was also acceptable when the cloud cover data is not available.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to develop a multilayer perceptron (MLP) model to estimate solar radiation using a solar module. Methods: Data for the short-circuit current of a solar module and other environmental parameters were collected for a year. For MLP learning, 14,400 combinations of input variables, learning rates, activation functions, numbers of layers, and numbers of neurons were trained. The best MLP model employed the batch backpropagation algorithm with all input variables and two hidden layers. Results: The root-mean-squared error (RMSE) of each learning cycle and its average over three repetitions were calculated. The average RMSE of the best artificial neural network model was $48.13W{\cdot}m^{-2}$. This result was better than that obtained for the regression model, for which the RMSE was $66.67W{\cdot}m^{-2}$. Conclusions: It is possible to utilize a solar module as a power source and a sensor to measure solar radiation for an agricultural sensor node.

This paper presents a method for determining the optimum active-area width (OAW) of solar cells in a module architecture. The current density-voltage curve of a reference cell with a narrow active-area width is used to reproduce the current density profile in the test cell whose active area width is to be optimized. We obtained self-consistent current density and electric potential profiles from iterative calculations of both properties, considering the distributed resistance of the contact layers. Further, we determined the OAW that yields the maximum efficiency by calculating efficiency as a function of the active-area width. The proposed method can be applied to the design of the active area of a dye-sensitized solar cell in Z-type series connection modules for indoor and building-integrated photovoltaic systems. Our calculations predicted that OAW increases as the sheet resistances of the contact layers and the intensity of light decrease.

The concentrating solar module with high concentration ratio(320)has been studied.in this paper. The solar module was composed of the EMVJ solar cell, (Fresnel Lens-DCPC)concentrator and heat sink, and was measured by using the PASTF system. The experimental result and the result analysis for the individual item of the module were as f ollows; (1) The conversion efficiency of the module was 8.3%. (2) The optical efficiency of the concentrator was 46.5% (DCPC; 84.8%, Fresnel Lens; 54.8%). (3) The thermal loss of the solar cell was 4.9%. And methods for the further improvement of the concentrating solar module efficiency have been suggested.

The main objective of this paper is to design DC-DC MPPT circuit using chaotic pulse width modulation to track maximum power from solar PV module for space application. The direct control method of tracking is used to extract maximum power. The nominal duty cycle of the main switch of DC-DC SEPIC converter is adjusted so that the solar panel output impedance is equal to the input resistance of the SEPIC converter which results better spectral performance in the tracked voltages when compared to conventional PWM control. The conversion efficiency of the proposed MPPT system is increased when CPWM is used as a control scheme

This paper is part of research and development for stand-alone solar system without commercial power supply. It implements firmware of controller for operation of stand-alone solar system by applying IoT technology and also develops communication modules that allow multiple solar lamps to send and receive data through wireless network. The controller of the developed stand-alone solar system can effectively charge the power generated by the solar module, taking into account the battery's charge and discharge characteristics. It also has the advantage of attaching wireless communication modules to solar lamp posts to establish wireless communication networks without incurring communication costs. In addition, by establishing IoT gateway middleware platform for each installation site, it forms a foundation to operate multiple solar lamp posts into multiple clusters. And, it is expected that the data collected in each cluster will be used to enable configuration and control of operational information, thereby inducing convenience and efficiency of remote operation and management.

The present study aims to develop animation module-based teaching-learning materials for a unit of middle school 3rd grade science, which contains the movement of the solar system, through the utilization of various forms of multimedia elements. The developed materials consist of 12 in total flash animation modules covering ‘movement of the Earth,’ ‘movement of the Moon,’ movement of the Planets,‘ etc. To analyze the student responses to the science classes to which the developed animation modules were to be applied, the researcher selected for subjects two third-grade classes that were made up of 60 students and later divided for an experimental group and a control group in a middle school located in Jeonju. The experimental group was treated with the animation module-based lessons developed in the present study while the control group was taught in the traditional teacher-centered ways. Tests for the science-related attitudes of the two groups were administered and the results showed that the mean score of the experimental group was significantly higher than the mean score of the control group (p<0.05) in the categories of ‘interest’ and ‘scientific attitude’. It was thus believed that the animation module-based teaching has a positive effect on the categories of ‘interest’ and ‘scientific attitude’. To assess the qualitative dimension of the developed materials, the researcher subjected them to the utilization of the 30 local science teachers and afterwards a survey was done with the 8 crucial items taken from the WBI evaluation test developed by Multimedia Education Support Center in 1998. The result was broadly positive in terms of lesson design and from a technological point of view.