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Engineering Laboratory

Materials and Structural Systems Division

2nd Atlas/NIST Workshop on Photovoltaic Materials Durability Agenda

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Nov. 13 and 14, 2013 Building 101,

Portrait Room National Institute of Standards and Technology

November 13
8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:30	Welcome, Howard Harary, Acting Director, NIST Engineering Laboratory
Material Testing for PV applications
8:45	Performance and durability of photovoltaic backsheets and comparison to outdoor performance, Bill Gambogi (DuPont)
9:20	Accelerated UV-Aging of EVA-Based PV Encapsulants and Correlation with Outdoor Exposure of PV Modules, Jayesh Bokria (STR)
9:55	Break
10:10	Acetic acid production rate in EVA encapsulant and its influence on performance of PV modules, Tsuyoshi Shioda (Mitsui Chemicals)
10:45	Accelerated Laboratory Testing Using Simultaneous UV Radiation, Temperature and Moisture for PV Polymers, Xiaohong Gu (NIST)
11:20	Discussion
12:15	Lunch
Relating Materials Durability to Module Reliability & Safety
1:30	Using Indoor Component Accelerated Stress Testing to Extrapolate to Outdoor Use, Mike Kempe (NREL)
2:05	Degradation Rates, Safety Failures and Reliability Failures of Fielded PV Modules: Lessons Learned in Hot-Dry Desert Climates, Mani G. Tamizhmani (Arizona State University)
2:40	Break
2:55	End-to-End (cell-to-module) Reliability of Thin Film Photovoltaics, Muhammad A. Alam (Purdue University)
3:30	The Challenges in Understanding CIGS Thin Film Cell and Module Reliability, Raji Sundaramoorthy (PVMC)
4:05	Discussion
5:00	Adjourn

November 14
8:00	Continental Breakfast
Relating materials durability to module reliability & safety (cont'd)
8:30	Lifetime and Degradation Science of Acrylic and PV Modules: Data Science Approach, Roger French (CWRU)
9:05	Quantifying PV Module Microclimates, and Translation into Accelerated Weathering Protocols, Nancy Phillips (3M)
9:40	IEC 62093 – PV Inverter Reliability Test Standard, T. Paul Parker (SolarBridge)
10:15	Discussion
11:00	Poster session Experimental Determination of Potential Induced Degradation Acceleration Factors for Various Encapsulants, Test Conditions, and Installation Locations Accelerated Environmental Aging Effects and In-Situ Functional Testing of Commercial Photovoltaic Modules Cross-sectional Characterizations of PV Backsheets and Non-Destructive Tests of PV Modules Outdoor Field Testing as a Complementary Approach to Accelerated Lifetime Tests
12:00	Lunch
Linking Accelerated Testing With In-Service (Field) Experience
1:15	Determining the Acceleration Rates for PV Module Stress Tests, John Wohlgemuth (NREL)
1:50	Linking accelerated ageing tests and outdoor testing of PV-modules by non-destructive luminescence spectroscopy of the polymeric encapsulant, Michael Kohl (Frauhofer ISE) and Beate Roeder (Humboldt University)
2:25	Weather Durability Testing and Failures in terrestrial flat plate PV modules, Al Zielnik (Atlas)
3:00	Break
3:15	Discussion
3:15	Conformity Assessment:, Introducing IEC RE, George Kelly
4:00	Wrap-up and adjourn

All contributions or comments are those of various individuals and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or beliefs of NIST.

Created September 18, 2013, Updated December 2, 2013