Real-Time Monitoring of Solar Modules Manufacturing

Abstract

One of the most important steps during manufacturing of solar modules is lamination. This paper focuses on monitoring of behavior of used encapsulant Ethylene/Vinyl-Acetate (EVA) and impact on overall quality of module during lamination. Monitoring is performed by employing external thermocouple sensor inside the lamination chamber as well as by. Real-time analysis of the results helps to predict the quality of final product in terms of ensuring lamination quality in real time and provides possibility to tune the process during manufacturing cycle to achieve the best result of encapsulant cross-linking.