Certificate Photovoltaic Metrology

Veranstalter

University of Freiburg
Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering - INATECH

Veranstaltungsort

Online

Zielgruppe

Pre-career and continuing education PV professionals

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen

Please note that this reservation is only to buy the certificate and not to participate in the course. To join the course please register through this webpage.

Inhalte

This course covers the following topics:

• Why outdoor evaluation? Overview of the course, some PV basics
• Measurement of global, direct and indirect radiation
• Measurement of solar module power in the lab
• Measurement of solar module power at site
• Thermography (Principle, emission factor, Planck´s law, bright and dark thermography, determination of the state of solar modules…)
• Indoor Electroluminescence measurements (Principle of measurement, Examples of ELphotos, low-cost-EL, time-efficient setup for low-cost-EL)
• Outdoor Electroluminescence measurements (Principle of measurement, Examples of ELphotos, low-cost-outdoor-EL, time-efficient setup for lowcost-EL, PID-detection)
• String-dark-iv-technology (Motivation, measurement method, detection of PID, detection of defect bypass-diodes, detection of defect strings)
• Dark2Bright-technology (Motivation, principle, advantages and limitations of the method, analytical approach, AI-approach)

Lernziele

After finishing the course, participants should be able to:

• Know, which measuring method is the suitable one to check solar modules and whole plants.
• Explain, how techniques like thermography and electroluminescence can be used to detect failures in modules and plants.
• Understand, how even low-cost-outdoor-EL-techniques can be valuable methods to analyse module failures in detail.
• Describe, how the Dark-IV-Characteristic-Curve-Method accelerates and simplifies the failures examination of PV-strings.
• Students should have an overview and an insight to PV-quality measurement techniques and are able to choose the appropriate method

Lehr- / Lernformat

Online

Creditpoints (ECTS)

5

Sprache

English

Anmeldefrist

Booking of the certificate is possible all year round.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Mertens
FH Münster