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An update on environmental, health and safety issues of interest to the photovoltaic industry

Description: There is growing interest in the environmental, health, and safety issues related to new photovoltaic technologies as they approach commercialization. Such issues include potential toxicity of II--VI compounds; the impacts of new environmental regulations on module manufacturers; and, the need for recycling of spent modules and manufacturing wastes. This paper will review these topics. 20 refs.
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Moskowitz, P. D.; Viren, J. & Fthenakis, V. M.
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(Technical and engineering support for the Office of Industrial Programs)

Description: As of April 19, 1991, technical, operational and analytic support and assistance to the offices and divisions of the Office of Renewable Energy, under contract DE-AC01-86CE30844 was completed. The overall work effort, initiated February 20, 1986, was characterized by timely, comprehensive, high quality, professional responsiveness to a broad range of renewable energy program operational support requirements. These are no instances of failure to respond, nor unacceptable response, during the fiv… more
Date: January 1, 1991
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Advanced high efficiency concentrator cells

Description: This report describes research to develop the technology needed to demonstrate a monolithic, multijunction, two-terminal, concentrator solar cell with a terrestrial power conversion efficiency greater than 35%. Under three previous subcontracts, Varian developed many of the aspects of a technology needed to fabricate very high efficiency concentrator cells. The current project was aimed at exploiting the new understanding of high efficiency solar cells. Key results covered in this report are as… more
Date: June 1, 1992
Creator: Gale, R. (Varian Associates, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (United States). Varian Research Center)
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Shining On: A primer on solar radiation data

Description: This document is a primer on solar radiation data. General uses of solar energy are presented. The manner in which solar radiation data is used to aid engineers in optimizing the use of solar thermal conversion and photovoltaic conversion is discussed. Methods for acquiring and assimilating the solar radiation data are illustrated. This would include the design and use of pyranometers and pyrheliometers. Seasonal and geographical variations in solar flux reaching the earth are evaluated. Other … more
Date: May 1, 1992
Creator: Dunlap, M.A.; Cook, G. (eds.); Marion, B.; Riordan, C. & Renne, D.
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NREL PV AR D 11th review meeting, May 13--15, 1992, Denver Marriott City Center, Denver, Colorado

Description: This is a collection of abstracts from papers presented at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Photovoltaic (PV) research and development review meeting held May 1992. Subject areas covered include solar cell and solar module manufacturing and development, materials, polycrystalline thin films, applications, amorphous silicon, solar cell performance and testing, crystalline silicon and other photovoltaic and safety perspectives. (GHH)
Date: January 1, 1992
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Final report on Development of a model and computer code to describe solar grade silicon production processes

Description: Models and computer codes which may be used to describe flow reactors in which high purity, solar grade silicon is produced via reduction of gaseous silicon halides are described. A prominent example of the type of process which may be studied using the codes developed in this program is the SiCl/sub 4//Na reactor currently being developed by the Westinghouse Electric Corp. During this program two large computer codes were developed. The first is the CHEMPART code, an axisymmetric, marching cod… more
Date: December 1, 1979
Creator: Gould, R K & Srivastava, R
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Photovoltaics: New opportunities for utilities

Description: This publication presents information on photovoltaics. The following topics are discussed: Residential Photovoltaics: The New England Experience Builds Confidence in PV; Austin's 300-kW Photovoltaic Power Station: Evaluating the Breakeven Costs; Residential Photovoltaics: The Lessons Learned; Photovoltaics for Electric Utility Use; Least-Cost Planning: The Environmental Link; Photovoltaics in the Distribution System; Photovoltaic Systems for the Rural Consumer; The Issues of Utility-Intertied … more
Date: July 1, 1991
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Renewable energy and utility regulation

Description: This report summarizes the results of a joint project on renewable energy of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and the US DOE. NARUC'S Task Force on Renewable Energy conducted a review of the current state of renewable energy technologies to evaluate their potential and extract key policy lessons from experience already gained in deployment of these technologies in numerous states. The main focus of this effort has been to clarify how utility regulators affect… more
Date: April 10, 1991
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Thin film cadmium telluride, zinc telluride, and mercury zinc telluride solar cells

Description: This report describes research to demonstrate (1) thin film cadmium telluride solar cells with a quantum efficiency of 75% or higher at 0. 44 {mu}m and a photovoltaic efficiency of 11.5% or greater, and (2) thin film zinc telluride and mercury zinc telluride solar cells with a transparency to sub-band-gap radiation of 65% and a photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 5% and 8%, respectively. Work was directed at (1) depositing transparent conducting semiconductor films by solution growth and meta… more
Date: April 1, 1992
Creator: Chu, T.L. (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (United States))
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Third quarterly report on Development of processes for the production of solar grade silicon from halides and alkali metals, April 1-June 30, 1980

Description: This program is directed toward the development of processes involving high temperature reactions of silicon halides with alkali metals for the production of solar grade silicon in volume at low cost. Experiments are performed to evaluate product separation and collection processes, measure heat release parameters for scaling purposes, determine the effects of reactants and/or products on materials of reactor construction, and make preliminary engineering and economic analyses of a scaled-up pr… more
Date: September 1, 1980
Creator: Gould, R. K.
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Review and summary of Solar Thermal Conversion Program planning assistance

Description: The Solar Thermal Conversion Program comprises a major part of the national solar energy program which must be continuously reviewed and modified where necessary. Modifications are typically required to reflect technical achievements and uncertainties which arise from within the program or from other technical programs, changes in budgets available for supporting the program as well as internal program funding priorities, changing goals such as through acceleration or stretch-out of the program… more
Date: June 1, 1975
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First quarterly report on Development of processes for the production of solar grade silicon from halides and alkali metals, October 3-December 31, 1979

Description: This program is directed toward the development of processes involving high temperature reactions of silicon halides with alkali metals for the production of solar grade silicon in volume at low cost. Experiments are being performed to evaluate product separation and collection processes, measure heat release parameters for scaling purposes, determine the effects of reactants and/or products on materials of reactor construction, and make preliminary engineering and economic analyses of a scaled… more
Date: February 1, 1980
Creator: Dickson, C. R. & Gould, R. K.
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Directory of Solar Energy Research Activities in the United States: First Edition, May 1980. [1220 projects]

Description: Information covering 1220, FY 1978 and FY 1979 solar energy research projects is included. In addition to the title and text of project summaries, the directory contains the following indexes: subject index, investigator index, performing organization index, and supporting organization index. This information was registered with the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange by Federal, State, and other supporting organizations. The project summaries are categorized in the following areas: biomas… more
Date: May 1, 1980
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Uniform flux dish concentrators for photovoltaic application

Description: Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a unique and innovative molded dish concentrator capable of producing a uniform flux profile on a flat target plane. Concentration levels of 100--200 suns, which are uniform over an area of several square inches, can be directly achieved for collection apertures of a reasonable size ({approximately}1.5-m diameter). Such performance would be immediately applicable to photovoltaic (PV) use. Economic concerns have shown t… more
Date: May 1, 1992
Creator: Jorgensen, G & Wendelin, T
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Power system requirements and selection for the space exploration initiative

Description: The Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) seeks to reestablish a US program of manned and unmanned space exploration. The President has called for a program which includes a space station element, a manned habitation of the moon, and a human exploration of Mars. The NASA Synthesis Group has developed four significantly different architectures for the SEI program. One key element of a space exploration effort is the power required to support the missions. The Power Speciality Team of the Synthesis … more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Biringer, K.L. (Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)); Bartine, D.E. (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)); Buden, D. (Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)); Foreman, J. (Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (United States)) & Harrison, S. (Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, Washington, DC (United States))
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Energy technologies at Sandia National Laboratories: Past, Present, Future

Description: We at Sandia first became involved with developing energy technology when the nation initiated its push toward energy independence in the early 1970s. That involvement continues to be strong. In shaping Sandia's energy programs for the 1990s, we will build on our track record from the 70s and 80s, a record outlined in this publication. It contains reprints of three issues of Sandia's Lab News that were devoted to our non-nuclear energy programs. Together, they summarize the history, current act… more
Date: August 1, 1989
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Government policy and market penetration opportunities for US renewable energy technology in India and Pakistan

Description: Some US renewable energy industries are now looking abroad, especially to the rapidly developing Asia-Pacific region, in order to increase sales and expand markets. The developing world appears in principle to be an important market for renewable energy technologies. These international markets have proven extremely difficult to penetrate, and the US competitive position is threatened by strong, well-organized, government-supported competition from Japan and Western Europe. For example, US phot… more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Sathaye, J. & Weingart, J.M.
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Research on stable, high-efficiency, large-area, amorphous-silicon-based submodules

Description: The primary objective of this subcontract is to develop the technology for same bandgap, amorphous silicon tandem junction photovoltaic modules having an area of at least 900 cm{sup 2} with the goal of achieving an aperture area efficiency of 9%. A further objective is to demonstrate modules that retain 95% of their under standard light soaking conditions. Our approach to the attainment of these objective is based on the following distinctive technologies: (a) in-house deposition of SiO{sub 2}/… more
Date: June 1, 1991
Creator: Delahoy, A.E.; Tonon, T. & Macneil, J. (Chronar Corp., Princeton, NJ (USA))
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THE PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECT AND PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY IN LAMINATED ORGANICSYSTEMS

Description: As a result of a wide variety of studies on photosynthesis in living plants and plant fragments, together with the development of photosensitive, photovoltaic junctions in inorganic crystals and the discovery and exploration of semiconduction in organic molecular substances, a suggestion has been made that the primary quantum conversion process in photosynthetic tissues involves the creation and separation of charge to opposite sides of an asymmetrically-constructed lamina, followed by the trap… more
Date: September 1, 1958
Creator: Kearns, David & Calvin, Melvin
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National Laboratory, Session: Seed Fund

Description: This project supports the Solar America Initiative by: Exploring new ideas that have the potential to make a real difference; and Portfolio of ideas including some that bring a new twist to a proven approach and some that are entirely new.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Kurtz, S.
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Final report on Synthesis of silane and silicon in a nonequilibrium plasma jet

Description: The original objective of this program was to determine the feasibility of high volume, low-cost production of high purity silane or solar cell grade silicon using a nonequilibrium plasma jet. The emphasis was changed near the end of the program to determine the feasibility of preparing photovoltaic amorphous silicon films directly using this method. The nonequilibrium plasma jet is produced by partially dissociating hydrogen to hydrogen atoms in a 50 to 100 Torr glow discharge and expanding th… more
Date: October 1, 1978
Creator: Calcote, H.F.
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