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functionality of multiple components and footprints collapsed into one.
The newer size takes up less overall surface area inside the panel than an equivalent solution assembled from discrete devices. The design of the EZ- ZONE ST provides a complete thermal system kit to reduce project and engineering design time and is tested and validated for the specified ampacity.
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Large size thin film panels provide balance of system savings that drive down solar cost per watt. Total energy cost is a function of four factors: conversion efficiency, panel architecture, panel size, and energy yield. When all four factors are considered, SunFab tandem junction thin film technology has significantly greater value than comparable thin film designs.
Recent news has demonstrated confidence in the benefits of using the SunFab solar modules for a utility scale solar farm.
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The EZ-ZONE ST comes complete with a free internal communications bus (standard bus) which provides a single entry point for configuration and monitoring or location to access multiple controllers on the bus.
For those applications requiring a display or remote user interface (RUI), the EZ- ZONE ST has the option of adding a 1/16 DIN RUI as a stand-along device or combining the RUI with gateway functionality.
The gateway will access higher level field buses (PROFIBUS, Ethernet/IP™, DeviceNet™ or Modbus®) by converting standard bus to the field protocol once instead of outfitting each controller with an independent protocol card, and all at a much lower cost point.
Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line
Applied Materials has successfully innovated new processes by which thin film solar panels can be made on a larger scale, at lower costs. Applied Material’s SunFab line delivers state of the art manufacturing capability needed to produce the lowest cost per watt thin film solar modules.
PV ModuleLine New highly automated production line for manufacturing crystalline solar modules.
The line will occupy a production area of 3,800 m2
. This project will allow the German PV company to increase its production capacity by 150 MWp. The plant will operate in three shifts and produce one solar module every 28 seconds.
The Applied SunFab thin film line drives down costs across every step of the value chain – from factory to farm. The SunFab line is an automated glass in- panel out production line capable of producing the world’s largest solar panels at 5.7m2
using amorphous silicon
(a-Si) and multi-crystalline (µc-Si) technology. Features such as bonded rails and integrated architectural products serve to reduce the cost of installation of solar farms with thin film SunFab panels.
The Augsburg automation specialist KUKA Systems has designed and developed the new plant and is supplying the production equipment for the manufacturing process line: automated modules for glass destacking and washing, film application, string layup and cross- soldering station, lamination, framing, performance testing, sorting and packing.
The system also includes the complete conveyor equipment and control technology. As well as a total of 29 KUKA
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