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Production of Solar Panels

Course: Production of Solar Panels

Code: 3ФЕИТ08026

ECTS points: 6 ECTS

Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hristina Spasevska

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Gain knowledge about types of solar cells, as well as for the production processes of solar panels. Special emphasis is given to strategies that would increase the production of electricity from solar panels.

Course Syllabus: Types of solar cells, materials and technologies for production. Manufacturing processes for solar cells: silicon and thin-layer. Techno-economic analysis of different types of technologies for solar cells production. Technologies to assembling of solar cells. Concentrator solar panels. Methods for testing and standardization. Measures for reducing of production cost of solar panels. Strategies and challenges for increasing the competitiveness of solar panels over other energy sources. The impact of the production and use of solar panels to the environment.

Literature:

Required Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Augustin McEvoy, Luis Castaner, Tom Markvart

Solar Cells: Materials, Manufacture and Operation

Academic Press

2012

2

D. Yogi Goswami, Frank Kreith, Jan F. Kreider

Principles of Solar Engineering

Taylor & Francis

2000

3

Robert Castellano

Solar Panel Processing

Archives contemporaines

2012

Additional Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Antonio Luque, Stiven Hegedus

Handbook of photovoltaic science and Engineering

Wiley

203

2

Martin Kaltschmitt, Wolfgang Streicher, Andreas Wiese

Renewable Energy: Technology, Economics and Environment

Springer

2007

3

Bent Sørensen

Renewable Energy: Its physics, engineering, use, environmental impacts, economy and planning aspects

Elsevier Science

2004