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RELIABILITY OF TPEDGE MODULES SUCCESSFULLY TESTED EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Marco Pinetti
Bystronic the TPedge project, en the leap from a labora-INVESTS IN EXPANSION marco.pinetti@glassonline.com
Fraunhofer ISE. AND WIDENS ITS HORIZONS
er with Bystronic were sub-
“We have successfully tak-
erable ageing phenomenon
jected to comprehensive
and an output loss of up to
Bystronic glass has
tory prototype to the stand-
41 percent. The testing of
module tests in accordance
solar cells),” said Max Mit-
The results confi rm the
cooperated with ard industrial size (with 60 with IEC 61730/61215. the resistance to changing 55 PRINTED BY STAMPALAB Srl
thermal loads was also suc-
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cessfully passed.
high resistance and the
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Tobias Neff, Solar Product module concept. Many PV Modules verifi ed the
Manager at Bystronic, ex- different TPedge design durability of the TPedge
the Fraunhofer plained, “With the TPedge setups were tested using modules by exposing them Via Giacinto Martorelli, 4
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THREE YEAR STUDY OF the development of modules into operation In the humidity-heat test, Resistance to mechanical
the TPedge modules with
in its Module Technol-
loads and hail were con-
ogy Center and use them to
ducted at the Fraunhofer
various commercial cells
commercial
using
PROTOTYPE PHOTOVOLTAIC a process for the manufacture various pro- were subjected to a tem- ISE mounting systems. The Published by Smartenergy S.r.l.; owned by ARTENERGY PUBLISHING S.r.l.
perature of 85 degrees Cel-
totypes in different setups.
industrial production
sius and a relative humidity
The industrial manufac-
modules were successfully
MODULES FINDS BENEFITS of innovative PV turing processes have been of 85 percent over a period tested in various mounting All rights reserved. Reproduction even partially in any form is strictly prohibited unless written permission
developed further and op-
positions up to a maximum
of 4000 hours. The mod-
ules did not present any
timized. The weight of the
load of 5400 Pascal units of
pressure. Despite the fact
TPedge modules have been
changes when compared
modules based on a reduced by 30 percent by with initial output meas- that the surface load tests
OF LOWERED COST AND Fraunhofer patent. utilising 2 millimetre thin urements. In comparison, were repeated numerous has first been obtained from the Publisher. The magazine is open to collaboration from all, but no
glass. The prototypes that
times, a change to the out-
the conventional modules
were manufactured togeth- partially displayed consid- put was not subsequently
GREATER RESISTANCE TO Numerous prototypes manuscripts or photographs will be returned. The editor’s office does not accept responsibility for opinions
THE ELEMENTS AND AGEING of these TPedge expressed in signed articles.
modules have now
been subjected to
he Fraunhofer ISE glass machines and sys- glass panes. TPedge elimi- opment of a Technology 60
mounted 70 TPedge tems. TPedge modules are nates the need for tradi- for Edge Sealed Solar PV
T modules on the fa- edge sealed, double glass tional encapsulation foils Modules,” the Fraunhofer comprehensive tests The Court responsible is Milan. Publication registered at no. 208 of the Milan Court Records Office
çade of a laboratory build- PV modules that have a and the module frames so ISE has cooperated with that confirm the
ing and subsequently put high degree of similarity to that both material costs and Bystronic in the techno-
these to successful use for insulating glass windows. time consuming lamination logical development incor-
over three years. The solar cells are fi xed processes are removed. porated into the industrial high reliability of the
The modules were pro- in gas-fi lled spaces using Within the scope of the production of innovative on 24.3.1990
duced using Bystronic adhesive pins between the project “TPedge – Devel- solar module concepts. module concept.
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Jason Sim
Business Development
Manager house applications, more aluminum or silver coat-
DirACT Glass sunlight passing through MIRROR, MIRROR ing on the rear surface of
ON THE WALL
equals more solar energy the glass which refl ects our
being stored and so every Back in the 1660s, mir- image back through to us.
photon of light counts. Ac- rors were considered much Mirrors now adorn many
89% while low-iron glass cording to Jim Koster of prized items reserved only walls in our buildings cre-
which was developed in JTB Glass, growers in Eu- for royalty and the wealthy ating’ interior space. Paul
1987 for the pyramid in rope are looking for good elite. It was forbidden Goudeau from Saint Gob-
Louvre’s court yard has an quality low-iron glass with for any Venetian mirror ain, a glass company that
improved VLT of 91% and an anti-refl ective coating artisan to practice their recently celebrated more
above, and also removes that allows 97% of vis- art outside Venice, the than 350 years of making
regular features regular
the green/blue hue that ible light through, thus fi rst mirror capital of the mirrors, said that his com-
comes with normal glass. increasing the productivity world. Today mass pro- pany is currently develop-
In commercial green- of the crops. duction mirrors have an ing a mirror that brings |
Evolution of glass in
BUILDINGS 12 ADVERTISERS INDEX &
he most remarkable
material, especially in the
physical property of
last ten years. The author
a review T glass on its discovery most promising building COMPANIESMENTIONED
explores some of these
in Mesopotamia must have
been its transparency. From
new properties and how
of recent developments its earliest application as they have been harnessed
personal adornment to the
to raise the application of
in the use of glass present day building enve- glass to yet another level.
lope, glass has stretched as
NOT JUST CLEAR,
in architecture 64 14 OUR FAIR CALENDAR 2017
far as the imagination can
ULTRA CLEAR -
reach. Although the basic
LOW-IRON GLASS
component of glass is still
humble sand (silica), cen-
The normal glass we use
turies of technology have
has a VLT (Visible Light
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