Modern Technologies In PV Cells

By: Faisal Saleem 2008-Mech-58

Some Modern Technologies:

String ribbon manufacturing process

Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) Space-based solar power (SBSP)

String ribbon manufacturing process

Introduction
Much less Capital Cost than Wafer Technology

1-2% Less Efficiency

Dye-sensitized solar cell

(DSSC)

Introduction:

Low cost thin film solar cell

invented by Michael Grtzel in 1991

less expensive than older solid-state cell

designs

flexible sheets, no protection from minor

events

compete with fossil fuel electrical generation

Construction
Three primary parts
1) 2) 3)

transparant anode layer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) thin layer of the iodide electrolyte on platinum metal

Operation:

Space-based solar power (SBSP)

Introduction:

collection of solar power in space, for use on Earth

Solar panels on solar power satellite (SPS) Can supply any Area on Earth

Terrestrial
o

Extra-Terrestrial
o

Less solar energy reaches.

Solar energy 144% of on the surface of Earth

o o

High Energy Radiations

Low Energy

Radiations
o

collect power 24 hours

per day

at most, 12 hours per day

o

No concern with weather

Affected with weather

Advantages

Can supply any Area on Earth

avoids the expense of storage facilities

(dams, oil storage tanks, coal dumps)

contamination or corrosion and damage by

wildlife or plant encroachment.

significant military advantage With a mobile

SBSP receiving station

Design:
o collecting

solar power in space

power to earth

o transmitting o receiving

power on earth

Wireless power transmission to the Earth

transmitting radiation would have to be non-ionizing

Microwave power transmission

Laser power beaming experiments

Challenges

Spacecraft sizing Location Earth-based infrastructure Dealing with launch costs Safety Atmospheric damage due to launches

Japan:

Steps Taken:

since 1998 by 2030

multi-billion-dollar dream of unlimited clean

energy targeting a one gigawatt system six times cheaper than its current cost in Japan.

10 megawatt by a 250 megawatt prototype