Page 494 - A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Energy Systems

Index 507

Compact linear fresnel concentrators, 130, 141 Countervailing duties (CVDs), 19
Compressed air energy storage (CAES), 353, Crystalline silicon (c-Si), 22
358, 359 bifacial solar cells, 199
Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), 7 BSF solar cells
Concentrating solar power (CSP), 5, 55, atomic hydrogen, 193
392–395, 401 contact grid pattern, 191
Concentrating solar thermal power (CSTP) fabrication technology, 193
systems front metallization, 193
advantage of, 129 lower diffusion temperatures, 192
central receiver systems, 130 metal-assisted etching technique, 192
commercial deployment, 137 monocrystalline and multicrystalline, 192
components, 138 N + P junction, 190
heliostats, 136 PECVD, 193
IPH applications, 137 P-type material, 195
compact linear fresnel concentrators, 130, 141 screen printing, 193
components and simplified scheme, 128 emerging module technologies
limitation of, 128 module reliability and durability, 207
optical concentrator, 127 shingled cell modules, 206
parabolic dishes, 142 SmartWire Contacting Technology, 207
parabolic-trough collectors, 130 heterojunction technology cells, 201
applications, 133 high efficiency cells
components, 131 PERC and PERL cells, 196
working fluids, 132 PERT, TOPCon, and bifacial cells, 198
plant efficiency vs.the concentration ratio, IBC cells, 200
130 material properties, 181
power block, 128 ribbon silicon, 189
PV joint implementation, 129 semiconductor silicon manufacture
in Spain, commercial deployment, 129 technology
stirling dishes, 130 fluidized bed reactor method, 183
technology trends Siemens method, 182
central receiver plants, 145 standard PV module fabrication
cost reduction, 143 technology, 203
lFC technology, 146 upconversion, 283
supercritical CO 2 , (s-CO 2 ), 145 wafer-based multijunction cells, 202
thermodynamic cycle and electricity wafer fabrication method
generator, 128 multicrystalline block fabrication, 187
Consortium for Electric reliability Technology silicon single-crystal ingot fabrication, 185
Solutions (CERTS), 77 wafering process, 189
Cooling degree days (CDDs), 53 Cumulative energy demand (CED), 413, 428
Copper (Cu), 453, 459, 460 low, 421
Copper-indium gallium di-selenide (CIGS) major commercial PV systems, 433, 434
solar cells nr-CED metric, 416
flexible monolithic CIGS modules, 367 per unit output, 416
molybdenum, 365 Current-source inverters (CSI), 339, 340
schematic presentation, 365, 366 Czochralski method, 185