Evaluation of high-temperature exposure of rack-mounted photovoltaic modules

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 002399-002404

  Kurtz, Sarah ^a   Whitfield, Kent ^b   Miller, David ^a   Joyce, James ^e   Wohlgemuth, John ^c   Kempe, Michael ^a   Dhere, Neelkanth ^d   Bosco, Nick ^a   Zgonena, Timothy ^e  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Miasole   (United States)

^c BP Solar ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; HIGH-TEMPERATURE EXPOSURE; INTERNATIONAL DEBATE; LOW WIND SPEED; MATERIAL DEGRADATION; MATERIAL TEMPERATURE; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; POLYMERIC MATERIAL; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; TEMPERATURE TEST; THERMAL ENDURANCE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMAL INDEX;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77951590625     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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