Front plate, thin-film solar module and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of solar energy, in particular to a front plate, a thin-film solar module and a preparation method thereof.
Background
Thin-film solar modules have been applied to various mobile energy products, including solar power generation paper, solar power banks, solar power generation packs, solar cars, solar umbrellas, solar tents, solar clothes, and the like. With the development of the solar photovoltaic industry, the market puts forward higher and higher requirements on mobile energy products, and the mobile energy products are expected to be more attractive while the requirements on power increase and power generation capacity improvement, so that the photovoltaic products play a role in decoration while generating electricity.
The traditional thin-film solar module is generally composed of a flexible front plate, an EVA bonding layer, a photovoltaic chip, an EVA bonding layer and a flexible back plate. However, the decoration effect cannot be achieved, because the flexible front plate of the traditional thin-film solar module has high light transmittance, and the color of the photovoltaic chip is black or dark blue, so that the formed thin-film solar module is black or dark blue in appearance, and the decoration effect is poor. The current methods to improve the above problems are mainly by changing the color of the front plate, changing the color of the adhesive film, or scribing the photovoltaic chip with laser. However, the change of the color of the front plate and the adhesive film can sacrifice part of light transmittance in different degrees, and the power generation efficiency is influenced; and the power generation amount is lost by scribing the photovoltaic chip by using the laser. In addition, the solar component prepared by the method has monotonous and dull color, poor decoration of patterns and lacks of artistry and beautifying functions. When these solar modules are directly used for mobile energy products, their appearance is poor in decoration, and cannot represent the consumer's artistic taste and elegant artistic interest.
Disclosure of Invention
The application provides a front plate, a thin-film solar module and a preparation method thereof, which aim to solve the problem of poor decoration of the traditional solar module.
The application provides a preparation method of a front plate, which comprises the following steps:
providing a substrate layer of a front plate of the thin-film solar module;
providing a bonding layer of a front plate of the thin film solar module;
providing a colorful three-dimensional pattern layer of a front plate of the thin film solar module;
and sequentially placing the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, the bonding layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module and the colorful three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module to form a laminated structure and bonding.
Optionally, the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module is a flexible polymer film, and the flexible polymer film includes at least one of the following: transparent fluorine-based resin, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polycarbonate, polymethyl methacrylate;
the fluorine-based resin includes at least one of: polychlorotrifluoroethylene, an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, an ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer, a chlorotrifluoroethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, polyvinylidene fluoride, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene ethylene copolymer.
Optionally, the adhesive layer of the front panel of the thin film solar module includes at least one of the following: polyvinyl butyral, polyurethane, thermoplastic polyolefin, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, high polymer of ethylene-butylene, and organosilicon.
Optionally, the color three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module is a polymer film processed by a laser process, and the color three-dimensional pattern layer includes at least one of the following components: a biaxial stretching polypropylene laser film, a polyvinyl chloride laser film and a polyethylene terephthalate laser film.
The application provides a preparation method of a thin film solar module, which comprises the following steps:
providing a front plate of a thin film solar module containing a colorful three-dimensional pattern layer;
providing a first bonding layer and a second bonding layer of the thin film solar module;
providing a photovoltaic chip of the thin film solar module;
providing a back plate of the thin film solar module;
sequentially placing a front plate of the thin film solar module containing the colorful three-dimensional pattern layer, a first bonding layer of the thin film solar module, a photovoltaic chip of the thin film solar module, a second bonding layer of the thin film solar module and a back plate of the thin film solar module to form a laminated structure; one side of the color three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate faces the first bonding layer;
and carrying out step-by-step laminating on the laminated structure by adopting step-by-step gradual temperature rise and pressurization or adopting vacuum bag laminating.
Optionally, the front plate of the thin film solar module comprising the color three-dimensional pattern layer is prepared by using the preparation method of the front plate.
Optionally, the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer comprise at least one of: polyvinyl butyral, polyurethane, thermoplastic polyolefin, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, high polymer of ethylene-butylene, and organosilicon.
Optionally, the photovoltaic chip of the thin-film solar module includes at least one of the following: copper indium gallium selenide, gallium arsenide, cadmium telluride and other flexible chips.
Optionally, the back plate of the thin film solar module is a flexible polymer film, and the flexible polymer film includes at least one of the following: transparent fluorine resin, polyvinyl fluoride composite film, polyethylene terephthalate, aluminized polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polycarbonate, polymethyl methacrylate;
the fluorine-based resin includes at least one of: polychlorotrifluoroethylene, an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, an ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer, a chlorotrifluoroethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, polyvinylidene fluoride, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene ethylene copolymer.
The present application also provides a front plate prepared according to the method for preparing a front plate, comprising: the color three-dimensional pattern layer comprises a base material layer of a front plate of the thin-film solar module, an adhesive layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module and a color three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module which are sequentially arranged.
The application also provides a thin film solar module prepared according to the preparation method of the thin film solar module, which comprises the following steps: the film solar module comprises a front plate of a film solar module containing a colorful three-dimensional pattern layer, a first bonding layer of the film solar module, a photovoltaic chip of the film solar module, a second bonding layer of the film solar module and a back plate of the film solar module which are sequentially arranged.
Compared with the prior art, the method has the following advantages:
the application provides a preparation method of a front plate, which comprises the following steps: providing a substrate layer of a front plate of the thin-film solar module; providing a bonding layer of a front plate of the thin film solar module; providing a colorful three-dimensional pattern layer of a front plate of the thin film solar module; and sequentially placing the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, the bonding layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module and the colorful three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module to form a laminated structure and bonding. The thin-film solar module front plate prepared by the color three-dimensional pattern layer has good light transmission, is convenient to manufacture and easy to realize, can be used for all products with decorative requirements on appearance, particularly mobile energy products, and has wide market prospect.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a method for manufacturing a 3-layer front plate according to this embodiment.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a 3-layer front plate structure provided in this embodiment.
Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a method for manufacturing a 5-layer thin film solar device according to this embodiment.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a 5-layer thin film solar device provided in this embodiment.
Detailed Description
In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present application. This application is capable of implementation in many different ways than those herein set forth and of similar import by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of this application and is therefore not limited to the specific implementations disclosed below.
Example one
Fig. 1 shows a flow chart of a 3-layer front panel manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present application.
The following will describe and explain in detail the method for manufacturing the 3-layer front sheet provided in the present application by way of specific examples.
As shown in fig. 1, the 3-layer front plate is prepared as follows:
and S101, providing a base material layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module.
The substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module is a flexible polymer film, and the flexible polymer film comprises at least one of the following components: transparent fluorine-based resin, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polycarbonate, and polymethyl methacrylate.
The fluorine-based resin includes at least one of: polychlorotrifluoroethylene, an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, an ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer, a chlorotrifluoroethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, polyvinylidene fluoride, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene ethylene copolymer.
In this example, a transparent ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer (ETFE) fluororesin having good weather resistance was selected as the base material layer of the front sheet of the thin film solar module. The thickness of the ETFE membrane material is usually less than 0.20mm, and the ETFE membrane material is an excellent transparent membrane material. ETFE has the following advantages: the flame retardant is extremely suitable for water, fuel, oil and acid-base environments and has high flame retardance; and the mechanical property is better: the high-strength high-toughness high-strength high. ETFE is also a good dielectric material: high dielectric strength, high resistivity, low dissipation factor (typically dissipation factor of only 0.003), low dielectric constant and substantially constant over variations in frequency and temperature.
Step S102, providing an adhesive layer of a front plate of the thin film solar module.
The bonding layer of the front plate of the thin film solar module comprises at least one of the following components: polyvinyl butyral, polyurethane, thermoplastic polyolefin, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, high polymer of ethylene-butylene, and organosilicon.
In this embodiment, since the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module is a polymer film, a high polymer of ethylene-butene (POE) with a low softening point is selected as the bonding layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module. POE has light weight, high transparency, good toughness, good flexibility and other excellent performances.
Step S103, providing a color three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin film solar module.
The color three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module is a polymer film processed by a laser process, and comprises at least one of the following components: a biaxial stretching polypropylene laser film, a polyvinyl chloride laser film and a polyethylene terephthalate laser film.
The colorful three-dimensional pattern layer arranged in the front plate of the thin-film solar module adopts an easily purchased and cheaper laser film, the laser film is colorful and has patterns which can be designed, and better three-dimensional effects can be presented at different angles. In order to ensure good light transmittance, the color three-dimensional pattern layer in this embodiment is made of a polyethylene terephthalate laser film (PET-based laser transparent film). The PET-based laser transparent film is a polymer film processed by a laser process, the laser process is to utilize a laser light source to record light wave amplitude information and corresponding information simultaneously in a very short time, each mass point forming an image is reflected by utilizing the interference principle of light to manufacture a colored three-dimensional pattern, the specific technology is to adopt design technologies such as a computer dot matrix photoetching technology, a 3D color holographic technology, a multiple and dynamic imaging technology and the like, the designed pattern is gorgeous, three-dimensional patterns with different colors are presented at different observation angles, and the pattern can be designed according to own favor. It should be noted that, in addition to the laser transparent film, the laser film may also be a laser dielectric film, a laser aluminum-plated film, a laser aluminum-washed film, a laser rainbow film, or a laser transfer film. Above-mentioned when setting up the polymer laser film that will have colored stereoeffect in the front bezel, whole decorative effect is good to can keep the good light transmissivity of front bezel. Meanwhile, the production process of the polymer laser film is relatively mature, the cost of the polymer laser film is low, and the polymer laser film has a wide application prospect in photovoltaic modules.
And S104, sequentially placing the base material layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, the bonding layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module and the colorful three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module to form a laminated structure and bonding.
In this embodiment, the process of sequentially placing the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, the adhesive layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, and the three-dimensional color pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module to form a stacked structure and bonding the stacked structure may be a process of stacking the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, the adhesive layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, and the three-dimensional color pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module from top to bottom to form a stacked structure, and then bonding the stacked structure.
It should be noted that the technical solution of the present embodiment is generally used for selecting a material of the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, the adhesive layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, and the color three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, but the application field thereof is not limited thereto, and the technical solution can be used for selecting a material corresponding to other materials of the substrate layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, the adhesive layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, and the color three-dimensional pattern layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, and.
In the above embodiments, a method for preparing a 3-layer front plate is provided, and correspondingly, a 3-layer front plate is also provided. Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a 3-layer front panel according to the present application.
A 3-layer front panel prepared according to the above steps S101-S104, comprising: the film solar module comprises a base material layer 101-1 of a front plate of the film solar module, an adhesive layer 101-2 of the front plate of the film solar module and a color three-dimensional pattern layer 101-3 of the front plate of the film solar module which are sequentially arranged.
In the first embodiment, a method for preparing a 3-layer front plate and a 3-layer front plate prepared by the method are provided. The application also provides a preparation method for preparing a thin film solar module with 5 layers by using the front plate, which is a flow chart of the preparation method for the thin film solar module with 5 layers as shown in fig. 3.
Example two
Fig. 3 is a flow chart showing a method for manufacturing a 5-layer thin film solar module according to an embodiment of the present application.
The following describes and explains the method for manufacturing a 5-layer thin-film solar module provided in the present application in detail by using specific examples.
As shown in fig. 3, the method for manufacturing the 5-layer thin film solar module is as follows:
step S301, providing a front plate of the thin film solar module with the color three-dimensional pattern layer.
The front plate of the thin film solar module including the color three-dimensional pattern layer provided in this step is the front plate directly using the 3 layers prepared in the first embodiment, and the preparation process of the 3 layers of front plate refers to the preparation process description in the first embodiment in detail, and is not described again here.
Step S302, a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer of the thin film solar module are provided.
The first and second bonding layers comprise at least one of: polyvinyl butyral, polyurethane, thermoplastic polyolefin, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, high polymer of ethylene-butylene, and organosilicon.
In this embodiment, because the bonding layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module is a polymer of ethylene-butene (POE), the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer of the thin-film solar module both use the polymer of ethylene-butene (POE) with a lower softening point to match the bonding layer of the front plate of the thin-film solar module, and the POE has excellent performances such as light weight, high transparency, good toughness and good flexibility, and is also a preferred material as the bonding layer.
Step S303, a photovoltaic chip of the thin film solar module is provided.
The photovoltaic chip of the thin-film solar module comprises at least one of the following components: copper indium gallium selenide, gallium arsenide, cadmium telluride and other flexible chips.
And step S304, providing a back plate of the thin film solar module.
The back plate of the thin-film solar module is a flexible polymer film, and the flexible polymer film comprises at least one of the following components: transparent fluorine resin, polyvinyl fluoride composite film, polyethylene terephthalate, aluminized polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polycarbonate, polymethyl methacrylate;
the fluorine-based resin includes at least one of: polychlorotrifluoroethylene, an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, an ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer, a chlorotrifluoroethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer, a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, polyvinylidene fluoride, a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene ethylene copolymer.
In this embodiment, a polyvinyl fluoride (TPT) composite film is selected as the back sheet of the thin film solar module. TPT has ageing resistance, corrosion resistance, good moisture resistance and humidity resistance, excellent mechanical property, barrier property and low hygroscopicity, and has the characteristics of good strength, good weather resistance, long service life, no change at laminating temperature, firm combination with bonding materials and the like. The characteristics are suitable for packaging the solar photovoltaic module and are used as a back plate material of the photovoltaic module, and in addition, TPT is selected as the back plate material of the photovoltaic module, so that the corrosion and the influence of various media, particularly water, oxygen, corrosive gas and the like on the solar cell can be effectively prevented.
Step S305, sequentially placing the front plate of the thin film solar module containing the color three-dimensional pattern layer, the first bonding layer of the thin film solar module, the photovoltaic chip of the thin film solar module, the second bonding layer of the thin film solar module and the back plate of the thin film solar module to form a laminated structure; wherein, the colorful three-dimensional pattern layer side of the front plate faces the first bonding layer.
In this embodiment, the front plate of the thin film solar module including the color three-dimensional pattern layer, the first adhesive layer of the thin film solar module, the photovoltaic chip of the thin film solar module, the second adhesive layer of the thin film solar module, and the back plate of the thin film solar module are sequentially stacked to form a stacked structure, in which the front plate of the thin film solar module including the color three-dimensional pattern layer, the first adhesive layer of the thin film solar module, the photovoltaic chip of the thin film solar module, the second adhesive layer of the thin film solar module, and the back plate of the thin film solar module are stacked from top to bottom to form a stacked structure, and in which the color three-dimensional pattern layer side of the front plate faces the first adhesive layer.
And S306, gradually heating and pressurizing the laminated structure by stages to perform step-by-step lamination or laminating by using a vacuum bag.
In this embodiment, the laminated structure is laminated step by gradually increasing the temperature and the pressure step by step, that is, the lamination process step by step is a process means of multiple times of lamination, and the temperature and the pressure of lamination gradually increase along with the increase of the number of times of lamination in the lamination process, so that the lamination of the laminated structure is firm, and meanwhile, bubbles between layers can be well discharged by adopting the process, and the yield of the obtained thin-film solar module is high. In addition, the pressing process can also use a vacuum bag laminating process, namely, the laminated structure is placed on the hard substrate, then the hard substrate and the laminated structure are sealed by a vacuum bag, then the vacuum is pumped and put into an oven, and the vacuum is continuously pumped to the required time while heating.
According to the thin film solar module with the color three-dimensional patterns, the simple combination mode of the embodiment is adopted, the laser film is combined with the thin film solar module, the thin film solar module with the color three-dimensional patterns is obtained, different patterns can be selected according to actual needs when the color three-dimensional pattern layer is specifically selected, and the problem that the thin film solar module is poor in attractiveness can be well solved.
It should be noted that the technical solution of the present embodiment is generally used for selecting the materials of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer of the thin film solar module, the photovoltaic chip and the backsheet, but the application field is not limited thereto, and other materials that are suitable for selecting the materials of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer of the thin film solar module, the photovoltaic chip and the backsheet can also be used in the technical solution, so as to obtain the same beneficial effects.
In the embodiment, a method for manufacturing a 5-layer thin film solar module is provided, and correspondingly, the application also provides a 5-layer thin film solar module. Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a 5-layer thin-film solar module according to the present application.
A 5-layer thin film solar module prepared according to the above steps S301-S306, comprising: the film solar module comprises a front plate 101 of the film solar module containing the color three-dimensional pattern layer, a first bonding layer 102 of the film solar module, a photovoltaic chip 103 of the film solar module, a second bonding layer 104 of the film solar module and a back plate 105 of the film solar module which are sequentially arranged.
Although the present application has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present application, and those skilled in the art can make variations and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present application, therefore, the scope of the present application should be determined by the claims that follow.