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Solar Photovolatic Products http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:15:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to Get Free One Way Backlinks Virally http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/featured-content/how-to-get-free-one-way-backlinks-virally/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/featured-content/how-to-get-free-one-way-backlinks-virally/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:15:21 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=79 Continue reading ]]>

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Photovoltaic Tracker Classification http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/latest/photovoltaic-tracker-classification/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/latest/photovoltaic-tracker-classification/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:13:43 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=77 Continue reading ]]> Photovoltaic trackers can be sorted into two types: Standard Photovoltaic Trackers and Concentrated Photovoltaic Trackers. All of these tracker types can be further divided by the quantity and orientation of their axes, their actuation architecture and their drive type, their proposed applications, their vertical supports and groundwork type.

Standard Photovoltaic (PV) Trackers

Photovoltaic panels allow both direct and diffuse light from the sky. The panels on a Standard Photovoltaic Trackers always collect the available diffuse light. The tracking functionality in Standard Photovoltaic Trackers is used to reduce the angle of incidence between inward bound light and the photovoltaic panel. This increases the quantity of energy collected from the straight component of the incoming light.

Technologies Supported

The technology behind Standard Photovoltaic (PV) Trackers works with all criterion photovoltaic module technologies. These comprise all types of crystalline silicon panels (monocrystalline, polycrystalline, multicrystalline) and all types of slim film panels (amorphous silicon, CIGS, microcrystalline).

Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Module Trackers

The optics in CPV modules admit the direct element of the incoming light and therefore must be arranged appropriately to make the most of the energy collected. In low absorption applications a part of the diffuse light from the sky can also be captured. The main tracking functionality in CPV modules is used to arrange the optics such that the incoming light is exactly focused to a photovoltaic collector.

CPV modules that focus in one dimension must be tracked usual to the sun in one axis. CPV modules that focus in two dimensions must be tracked normal to the sun in two axes.

Technologies Supported

Concentrated Photovoltaic Trackers are opted with refractive and reflective based concentrator systems. There is a range of rising photovoltaic cell technologies used in these systems. These array from crystalline silicon based photovoltaic receivers to germanium made triple junction receivers.

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Photovoltaic Trackers or Sun Tracking Photovoltaics http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-trackers-or-sun-tracking-photovoltaics/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-trackers-or-sun-tracking-photovoltaics/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:16:45 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=75 Continue reading ]]> A photovoltaic tracker is a specific term used to describe devices that adjust various payloads toward the sun. Payloads can be photovoltaic panels, reflectors, lenses or other array optical devices.

In general photovoltaic applications trackers are used to reduce the angle of incidence between the incoming light and a photovoltaic panel. This increases the quantity of energy produced from an unchanging amount of installed power generating capacity. In model photovoltaic applications, it is approximate that trackers are used in at least 85% of commercial installations greater than 1MW from 2009 to 2012.

In concentrated photovoltaic and concentrated solar thermal applications trackers are used to allow the optical components in these systems. The optics in concentrated solar applications accepts the straight component of sunlight light and therefore must be oriented suitably to collect energy. Tracking systems are set up in all concentrator applications because systems do not produce energy unless oriented toward the sun.

Tracker Type Selection

The choice of tracker type is dependent on many components including installation size, electric rates, government incentives, land limit, latitude, and weather.

Horizontal single axis trackers are usually used for large distributed generation projects and utility scale projects. The mixture of energy improvement and lower product cost and lower installation difficulty results in compelling economics in large arrangements. In accumulation the strong afternoon performance is particularly sought for large grid-tied photovoltaic systems so that production will equal the peak demand time.

A vertical axis tracker hangs only about a vertical axle, with the panels either vertical, at a fixed, modifiable, or tracked elevation angle. Such trackers with fixed or adjustable angles are appropriate for high latitudes, where the apparent solar path is not particularly high, but which leads to lengthy days in summer, with the sun travelling through a long arc.

Dual axis trackers are normally used in smaller residential installations and locations with very high government support in charges.

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Background and Scope of Photovoltaic Furnaces http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/solar-power/background-and-scope-of-photovoltaic-furnaces/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/solar-power/background-and-scope-of-photovoltaic-furnaces/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:39:43 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=73 Continue reading ]]> The ancient Latin word heliocaminus used by them exactly means “solar furnace” and refers to a glass-enclosed sunroom purposely designed to make it hotter than the outside air temperature.

During the time of  Second Punic War (218 – 202 BC), the Greek scientist and innovative technology artist  Archimedes has said to have repelled the attacking Roman ships by igniting them on fire with a “burning glass” that may have been an arrangement of mirrors. An experiment to investigate this historical theory was carried out by a set of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. It concluded that even though the theory was sound for stationary objects, the mirrors would not likely have been able to concentrate adequate solar energy to set a ship on fire under those battle conditions.

The first contemporary solar furnace is believed to have been built in France in 1949 by Professor Félix Trombe. It is still in the same place at Mont Louis, near Odeillo. The Pyrenees were selected as the site for these furnaces because of its sunny weather for up to 300 days a year.

Modern uses

The solar furnace standards is being used to make low-cost solar cookers and solar-powered barbecues, and for solar water pasteurization. A trial product Scheffler reflector is being constructed in India for use in a solar crematorium. This 50 m² reflector will produce temperatures of 700 °C (1,292 °F) and put out of place 200-300 kg of firewood used per cremation.

It has been recommended that solar furnaces could be used in space to provide energy for manufacturing needs. Their dependence on sunny weather is a restrictive factor as a source of renewable energy on Earth but could be attached to thermal energy storage systems for energy production through these periods.

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Photovoltaic Furnace: http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-furnace/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-furnace/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:20:39 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=71 Continue reading ]]> A photovoltaic solar furnace is a make-up used to harness the radiation of the sun in order to generate high temperatures, usually for industries. This is achieved using a curved mirror (or an array of mirrors) that acts as a parabolic reflector, focusing light (Insolation) onto a focal point. The temperature at the focal point may reach 3,500 °C (6,330 °F), and this high temperature can be used to generate electricity, melt steel and make hydrogen fuel or nanomaterials.

The word “solar furnace” has also developed to refer to solar concentrator heating arrangements using parabolic mirrors or heliostats where 538 °C (1,000 °F) is now commonly achieved. The biggest solar furnace in the world is at Odeillo in the Pyrenees-Orientales in France, commenced in 1970. It employs an array of plane mirrors to collect the rays of light from the sun, reflecting them on to a well-built curved mirror. The rays are then focused onto an area the size of a cooking pot and can reach 3,500 °C (6,330 °F), depending on the procedure installed, for example:

about 1,000 °C for metallic receivers producing hot air for the next invention photovoltaic solar towers as it will be tested at the Themis plant with the Pegase project

about 1,400 °C to manufacture hydrogen by cracking methane molecules

up to 2,500 °C to experiment materials for extreme environment such as nuclear reactors or space vehicle’s  entry into earth’s atmosphere.

up to 3,500 °C to produce nanomaterials by photovoltaic induced sublimation and controlled cooling, such as carbon nanotube or zinc nanopartic.

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Photovoltaic Cooling http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-cooling/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-cooling/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:37:44 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=69 Continue reading ]]> Photovoltaic can offer the power for any type of electrically power-driven cooling be it usual compressor-based or adsorption/absorption-based, though the most common functioning is with compressors which are the slightest efficient form of electrical cooling methods.

For small residential and small commercial cooling (less than 5 MWh/yr) photovoltaic-powered cooling has been the most frequently implemented solar cooling technology. The motive for this is debated, but usually suggested reasons include incentive structuring, need of residential-sized equipment for other solar-cooling technologies, the dawn of more efficient electrical coolers, or easiness of installation compared to other solar-cooling technologies (like radiant cooling).

Since photovoltaic cooling’s cost efficiency depends in the main on the cooling equipment and given with the poor efficiencies in electrical cooling techniques until lately it has not been cost efficient without subsidies. Pairing photovoltaics with 14 SEER and smaller number of coolers is the least efficient of all solar cooling methods. Using more efficient electrical cooling techniques and allowing longer payback schedule is altering that scenario. But the photovoltaics would only produce full output during the sunny part of clear days.

The solution to solar air conditioning cost effectiveness is in lowering the cooling prerequisite for the building. Advanced energy efficiency can be designed into new construction (or retrofitted to proirly existing buildings). Since the U.S. Department of Energy was created in 1977, their Weatherization Assistance Program has abridged heating-and-cooling weight on 5.5 million low-income affordable homes and average of 31%. A hundred million American structures still need enhanced weatherization. Careless conventional building practices are still producing uneconomical new buildings that need a lot weatherization when they are first occupied.

It is quite simple to decrease the heating-and-cooling requirement for new construction by one half. This can often be done at no extra net cost, since there are cost savings for smaller air conditioning systems and other reimbursements.

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Photovoltaic Combi Systems http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-combi-systems/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/photovoltaic-combi-systems/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:56:27 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=67 Continue reading ]]> A solar combisystem provides together solar space heating and cooling as well as hot water from a common array of photovoltaic thermal collectors, usually backed up an secondary non-solar heat source.

Solar combisystems may vary in size from those installed in individual properties to those serving quite a lot of in a block heating scheme. Those serving larger groups of properties district heating lean to be called central solar heating schemes.

A big number of different types of solar combisystems are created – over 20 were recognized in the first international survey, conducted as part of IEA Task 14 in 1997. The photovoltaic modules on the market in a particular country may be more constrained, though, as different systems have tended to evolve in different countries. Prior to the 1990s such systems tended to be custom-made for each property. Since then commercialised ones have developed and are now generally used.

Depending on the size of the combisystem used, the annual space heating role can range from 10% to 60% or more in very-low energy Passivhaus type buildings; even up to 100% where a huge seasonal thermal store or absorbed solar thermal heat is used. The remaining heat necessity is supplied by one or more auxiliary sources in order to keep up the heat supply once the solar heated water is exhausted. Such secondary heat sources may also use other renewable energy sources (when a geothermal heat pump is used in the combisystem then it is called geosolar) and, sometimes they also use rechargeable batteries.

During 2001, approximately 50% of all the household solar collectors installed in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway were to supply photovoltaic combisystems, while in Sweden it was superior. In Germany, where the total collector region installed was 900,000 meter square was much larger than in the other countries, 25% was for combisystem installations. Combisystems have also been setup in Canada since the mid 1980s.Some combisystems can fit in solar thermal cooling in summer.

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High Efficiency Photovoltaic Arrays http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/high-efficiency-photovoltaic-arrays/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/high-efficiency-photovoltaic-arrays/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:55:28 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=65 Continue reading ]]> High-efficiency solar cells are a particular class of solar cell that can produce more electricity for every incident solar power unit (watt/watt). Much of the industry is determined on the most cost efficient technologies in terms of cost per unit generated power. The two main strategic plans to bring down the cost of photovoltaic electricity are growing the efficiency of the cells and reducing their cost per unit area. However, increasing the effectiveness of a solar cell without decreasing the total cost per kilowatt-hour is not more cost-effective, since sunlight is available free. Thus, whether or not “efficiency” matter depends on whether “cost” is defined as cost per unit of sunlight exposure on the cell, per unit area, per unit weight of the cell, or per unit energy produced by the cell. In situations where much of the cost of a solar system scales with its area, the confront of increasing the photovoltaic efficiency is thus of great interest, both from the research as well as economic points of view. Many science groups have published papers claiming likelihood of high efficiencies after conducting optical measurements under many theoretical conditions. The efficiency should be measured under real conditions and the vital parameters that need to be evaluated are the short circuit current, open circuit voltage.

But many of recent findings in the field of photovoltaic research illustrates  most excellent laboratory efficiencies found for various materials and technologies, usually this is done on very small, i.e. one square cm, cells. Industrial efficiencies are considerably lower.

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Cadmium – Greenhouse Gases http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/cadmium-greenhouse-gases/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/cadmium-greenhouse-gases/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:34:13 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=63 Continue reading ]]> One issue that have always raised the concerns is the use of cadmium in cadmium telluride solar cells in manufacture of certain types of photovoltaic products. Cadmium in its metallic form is a toxic substance that has the affinity to build up in ecological food chains. The amount of cadmium used in thin-film photovoltaic products is relatively very small (5-10 g/m²) and with good emission control techniques in place the cadmium emissions from photovoltaic module production can also  be brought to almost zero. Current technologies lead to cadmium emissions of 0.3-0.9 mg/kWh over the whole life-cycle of the product. Most of all these emissions actually occur through the use of coal power for the manufacturing of these products, and coal combustion leads to much higher emissions of cadmium.

No emissions of any kind can be gproduced when using photovoltaics modules under normal conditions and during probable accidents (e.g. fires, breakage). New studies have proved that cadmium in glass–glass modules would not be released during fires because it dissolves into the molten glass and remains there. Any comparisons made with cadmium emissions from new coal-fired power plants are mistaken because they compare unlikely possible accidental emissions from PV systems to routine emissions from conventional power plants. In actuality, when photovoltaic plants replace coal burning for electricity generation, it will prevent cadmium emissions as well as large quantity of CO2, NOx, and small particulate emissions. By comparison with Ni–Cd batteries, a CdTe photovoltaic module uses cadmium about 2500 times more efficiently in producing electricity. A 1 KW photovoltaic system contains less cadmium than 10 size-C Ni–Cd batteries. In addition, CdTe is more firm and less soluble than the cadmium workings used in batteries.

But if electricity produced by photovoltaic panels were used to manufacture the products instead of electricity from burning coal, cadmium emissions from coal power procedure in the manufacturing process could be completely eliminated.

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Greenhouse Gases http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/greenhouse-gases/ http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/general/greenhouse-gases/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:32:43 +0000 solar http://solarphotovoltaicproducts.com/?p=60 Continue reading ]]> Greenhouse gas emissions are now approximately in the range of 25-32 g/kWh and this could decrease to approx 15 g/kWh in the future. For comparison, a combined cycle gas-fired power plant emits some 400-599 g/kWh, a coal-fired power plant 915-994 g/kWh, an oil-fired power plant 893 g/kWh and a geothermal high-temp power plant 91-122 g/kWh. Only geothermal low- temp and wind are better,emitting 11 g/kWh and 0-1 g/kWh]. Including the energy required for mining uranium and the energy-intensity spent during power plant construction and decommissioning it, some place nuclear power plants’ life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions are below 40 g/kWh, but many others give much higher figures.

Using renewable energy sources in manufacturing and transportation would have an additional drop in carbon emissions. BP Solar owns two factories in US built by Solarex in which all of the energy used to manufacture solar panels is produced by only solar panels. But a 1-kilowatt system eliminates the burning of approx 170 pounds of coal, 300 pounds of carbon dioxide from being on the loose into the atmosphere, and saves up to 105 gallons of water use monthly.

The main life-cycle environmental harmful impacts of silicon photovoltaic panels come from the production phase and include:

The energy consumed during panel production and the emissions linked with that energy production;

Water consumption, which is cleaned and reused in the watershed;

Some hazardous end products which are released to the air or recycled and reused in additional production processes.

All air emissions are in retreat to pollution control equipment and covered under a Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) air sanction. All wastewater is treated and monitored preceding to discharge under the water permit. The positive impact during the photovoltaic panel use or energy generation stage is the emissions-free energy that displaces carbon intensive energy production from sources such as coal and natural gas. The optimistic impacts of that displacement far outweigh the negative impacts of the production phase of the life cycle of silicon photovoltaic panels.

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