Lowering $/Wp – sustainable productivity improvements

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1. Support and development assistance

2. Development and implementation quality measurement tools

3. PV Training and PV Learning

Sustainable productivity improvements will result in a decreased $/Wp

develops and implement new analytical tools (in-line quality control), hence contributing to both increased productivity as well as the reliability of the PV industry

contribute, in close relation with academic institutions, to the education of professionals (securing availability of skilled people)

a. increase production with no or minimal infrastructure changes - reduction cycle time existing equipment- less out of specification production (robust process window)- education staff (reduction head count; less raw material costs; Q increase)

- trouble shooting

b. ramp-up assistance: assist during the ramp-up phase of production line (incl. assistance in hiring people)

c. process as a service: performing the PV module production at the customers production site (contract in place defining delivery of raw materials and purchase of the PV modules produced)

Solcelerstays 3-9 monthson site

Solceler – accelerating your PV module business

lowering $/Wp – sustainable productivity improvements

why is Solceler confident to be successful?

confidence based on experience in the past to sustainable implement the extensive knowledge into an industrial environment

this knowledge is obtained by a systematic experimental approach

Doing business with Solceler means:Hands-on consulting with Solceler being active where

needed (at the production site, in the lab and/or in the management team)

Compensation generally depending on successStrict confidentiality is assured

References available upon request

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Variables in the lamination process:- Temperature (Tplate, Tcover, dT/dt)- Time (tcycle= tpins+ tplate+ tcure + tcool)- Pressure (Pupper and lower chamber, dP/dt)

- dglass, dencapsulant

- kind of encapsulant (EVA, PVB, etc)- glass – backsheet, glass – glass - c-Si, a-Si, CdTe, CIGS

TChamber1 = 130 TChamber1 = 145 TChamber1 = 160

Investigation: Versuchsprotokoll_3_XL (MLR)

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Optimising the PV module lamination process

A systematic experimental approach allows the separation of the various variables, leading to a more cost-efficient PV module production:- significant reduction of lamination cycle time- increased quality PV modules and robust process window

Reference: R.F.M. Lange, 5th SMET Advanced PV Technology Conference, Munich, 25-27 May 2009: Towards a more cost efficient PV module production

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Solceler – accelerating your PV module business

Solceler – accelerating your PV module business

support and development assistance

development and implementationquality measurement tools

PV TrainingPV Learning

accelerating your PV module businesswww.9-om.com/solceler mail@9-om.com

RL101203