Aplicação do Software Virtual PV Factory para análise das etapas iniciais do processo de fabricação da célula fotovoltaica.

Abstract

The growing demand for energy has made the use of renewable resources essential. Since the last 50 years, the photovoltaic energy has grown considerably. This development is due to the continuous technology improvement combined with the increase of production in the photovoltaic factories, which consequently requires a good training of the professionals of the area. This work presents a study on the main process of the photovoltaic cell manufacturing, by using the virtual software PV Factory. Batches of solar cells were simulated in the software, from which the input parameters were varied for the three initial processes (starting material, saw damage etch and alkaline texturing) from the manufacturing process in order to analyze the physical and electrical characteristics of the manufactured cells in the simulations. As simulations results, the influence of the input conditions variations on the final characteristics of the photovoltaic cell batches was obtained.