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• Published in: TERI information digest on energy and environment Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 519 - 524
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi The Energy and Resources Institute 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Annual reports; Biodegradation; Coring; Diesel fuels; Electrodes; Energy balance; Energy storage; Enthalpy; Fluid dynamics; Fluid flow; Gases; Heat; Heat transfer; International standards; Inventors; Modules; Molecular weight; Oxidation; Photooxidation; Photovoltaic cells; Plasma; Plasma generators; Polymers; Raw materials; Road maintenance; Sequestering; Solar cells; Storage tanks; Sulfur; Terminology; Thermal energy; Wiring; Working fluids; United States > US; Ann Arbor Michigan
• ISSN: 0972-6721; 1875-9297

PATENTS United States Patent US 10,879,411 Filed on May 26,2016 Granted on December 29,2020 Inventors and filed by Donghae, O. H. (Seoul, KR); Kim, J. (Seoul, KR); Lee, H. (Seoul, KR); Cho, H. (Seoul, KR) Solar cell module The solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells each including first electrodes collecting carriers of a first conductive type and second electrodes collecting carriers of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, the plurality of solar cells being positioned adjacent to one another, and a plurality of wiring members configured to electrically connect the first electrodes to the second electrodes of adjacent solar cells. Systems of the inventive subject matter are designed to reduce maintenance requirements by sequestering; for example, corrosive fluids that might otherwise damage difficult-to-fix internal components are kept out of those components by introducing a non-corrosive heat transfer fluid to facilitate heat transfer between a thermal energy storage medium (e.g., molten sulfur) and a potentially corrosive working fluid. [...]the potentially corrosive fluid is kept out of a thermal energy storage tank containing the thermal energy storage medium, which, by design, is difficult to repair when internal components corrode or otherwise require maintenance. Scope 1.1 This guide provides a framework or road map to compare and rank the controlled laboratory rates of degradation and degree of physical property losses of polymers by thermal and photo-oxidation processes as well as the biodegradation and ecological impacts in defined applications and disposal environments after degradation. 1.2 In this guide, established ASTM International standards are used in three tiers for accelerating and measuring the loss in properties and molecular weight by both thermal and photo-oxidation processes and other abiotic processes measuring biodegradation and assessing ecological impact of the products from these processes. 1.3 The residues resulting from the oxidations are then exposed to appropriate disposal or use environments in standard biometric test methods to measure the rate and degree of biodegradation. [...]in making the energy balance, accurate measurements are needed since the efficiencies of some plasma generators are low (as low as 15-20% or less in which case the enthalpy depends upon the difference of two quantities of nearly equal magnitude).Therefore, the accuracy of the measurements of the primary variables must be high, all energy losses must be correctly taken into account, and steady-state conditions must exist both in plasma performance and in fluid flow. 1.4 In particular, it is noted that total enthalpy as determined by the energy balance technique is most useful if the plasma generator design minimizes coring effects.