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Presentations
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Day 1: December 12, 2019 |
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8:00 - 8:30 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30 - 8:45 AM |
Opening Remarks--- Howard Harary, Director, NIST Engineering Laboratory Ken Boyce, Director, UL Energy & Power Technologies |
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Session 1: General (Chair: Kenneth Boyce, UL) |
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8:45 - 9:10 AM |
Solar Energy Technologies Office’s PV reliability Efforts and Interests (Lenny Tinker, DOE) |
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9:10 - 9:35 AM |
DuraMat Goals/Accomplishment (Teresa Barnes, NREL) |
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9:35 - 10:00 AM |
Status of Crystalline Si PERC Solar Cells (Qi Wang, JinkoSolar, China) |
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10:00 - 10:25 AM |
Fight Global Warming (Climate Change) with Solar Energy + Multi-Storage Resilient Island Nano-grid Smart Home/Building (John Borland, J.O.B. Technologies) |
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10:25 - 10:40 AM |
Break |
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Session 2: PV Module Field Survey (Chair: Nancy Phillips, DuPont) |
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10:40 - 11:05 AM |
Durability of Packaging Material in Globally Fielded PV Modules (Jared Tracy, DuPont) |
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11:05 - 11:30 AM |
Real-world and Accelerated Degradation of PV Module Backsheets (Laura Bruckman, Case Western Reserve University) |
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11:30 – 11:55 AM |
Energy yield reductions of PV power plants with c-Si or CIS thin-film PV modules installed in Japan (Tsuyoshi Shioda, Mitsui Chemicals, Japan) |
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11:55 - 12:15 PM |
Panel Discussion 1 (Chairs: John Wohlgemuth PowerMark Corporation; Stephanie Watson, NIST) |
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12:15 - 1:45PM |
Lunch and Poster Session |
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Session 3: Accelerated Laboratory Testing and Linking to Field Performance (Chair: Teresa Barnes, NREL) |
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1:45 - 2:10 PM |
Climate Specific Accelerated Ageing Tests (Karl Berger, AIT, Austria) |
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2:10 - 2:35 PM |
Co-extruded backsheets for PV modules: Past approaches and recent developments (Gernot Oreski, PCCL, Austria) |
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2:35 - 3:00 PM |
Degradation of PERC and Al-BSF Photovoltaic Cells with Differentiated Minimodule Packaging Materials (Roger French, Case Western Reserve University) |
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3:00 - 3:15 PM |
Break |
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3:15 - 3:40 PM |
Correlating Accelerated Testing to Field Defects in Backsheets: Inner and Outer Layer Cracking and Delamination (Kaushik Roy Choudhury, DuPont) |
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3:40 - 4:05 PM |
Advancing Reliability Assessments of Photovoltaic Modules and Materials through Combined-Accelerated Stress Testing (Michael Owen-Bellini, NREL) |
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4:05 - 4:30 PM |
Solder Bump Coupon Testing of Backsheets for Simplified Comprehensive Evaluation (Mike Kempe, NREL) |
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4:30 - 4:50 PM |
Panel Discussion 2 (Chairs: David Miller, NREL; Ralph Gottschalg, Fraunhofer CSP) |
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5:00 PM |
Adjourn/NIST Labs Tour (NIST SPHERE; Net-Zero Energy House) |
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Day 2: December 13, 2019 |
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7:45 - 8:15 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
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Session 4: Characterization and Modeling (Chair: Tadanori Tanahashi, AIST; Xiaohong Gu, NIST) |
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8:15 - 8:40 AM |
Fragmentation Test for Assessing Backsheet Cracking Propensity (Xiaohong Gu, NIST) |
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8:40 - 9:05 AM |
Multi-scale, Multi-physics Modeling Capabilities towards Improving PV Reliability (Ashley Maes, Sandia National Laboratories) |
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9:05 - 9:30 AM |
Demonstrating New Concepts for Reliable Low-Cost Module Encapsulation and Moisture Barrier Technologies (Reinhold Dauskardt, Stanford University) |
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9:30 - 9:55 AM |
Measurement, Modeling and Database of Solar Irradiance (Aron Habte / Manajit Sengupta, NREL) |
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9:55 - 10:10 AM |
Break |
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10:10 - 10:35 AM |
Corrosion-induced AC Impedance Elevation in Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells/Modules (Tadanori Tanahashi, AIST, Japan) |
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10:35 - 11:00 AM |
Degradation and Stability of Polymers: The Role of Aggregation Structure and A New Stabilization Method (Guangxian Li, Sichuan University, China) |
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11:00 - 11:25 AM |
Statistical Modeling for Service Life Prediction of PV Materials (Yili Hong, Virginia Tech) |
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11:25 - 11:50 AM |
Physics-Based Machine Learning to Enable Reliable Modules & Sustainable Solar Farms (Muhammad Alam, Purdue University) |
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11:50 - 12:15 PM |
Panel Discussion 3 (Chairs: Qi Wang, JinkoSolar; Gernot Oreski, PCCL) |
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12:15 - 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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Session 5: Link Research to Standards (Chairs: Steve Hogan, Hogan Renewable; Coleen O’Brien, UL) |
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1:30 - 1:55 PM |
Risks Embedded in the Current Quality Assurance Scheme in the PV Industry (Ralph Gottschalg, Fraunhofer CSP, Germany) |
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1:55 - 2:20 PM |
Revision of the PV Module Qualification Standard (IEC 61215) (John Wohlgemuth, PowerMark Corporation) |
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2:20 - 2:55 PM |
Approaches to Component Reliability in IEC Standards Development (Nancy Phillips, DuPont) |
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2:55 - 3:10 PM |
Break |
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3:10 - 3:35 PM |
Round-robin Verification of Specimen Temperature during Accelerated Testing for the PVQAT TG5 Studies (David Miller, NREL) |
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3:35 - 4:00 PM |
Recent Progress and Results from IECRE Activities (Steve Hogan, Hogan Renewables) |
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4:00 – 4:25 PM |
PV Module Safety and Performance Standard Requirements in Extreme Environmental Conditions (Colleen O’Brien, UL) |
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4:25 - 4:50 PM |
Panel Discussion 4 (Chairs: Mike Kempe, NREL; Karl Berger, AIT) |
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4:50 - 5:00 PM |
Summary and Adjourn (Kenneth Boyce, UL & Xiaohong Gu, NIST) |