Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention provides a solar cell package structure and a solar cell package method, which can reduce the influence of water vapor erosion on a solar cell chip and prolong the service life of the solar cell.
Based on the above purpose, the invention provides a solar cell packaging structure, which comprises a back plate, a solar cell chip, a first water absorption film, a water resistance film and a front plate; the back plate, the solar cell chip, the water-blocking film and the front plate are sequentially stacked from bottom to top; the first water absorption film is arranged between the solar cell chip and the water resistance film.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the package structure further comprises a second water-absorbing film disposed between the solar cell chip and the back sheet.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the first water absorbing film is selected from one of a polyacrylic acid film, a polyvinyl alcohol film, or a polyoxyethylene film.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the second water-absorbent film is selected from one of a polyacrylic acid film, a polyvinyl alcohol film, or a polyoxyethylene film.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the package structure further includes a sealing rubber strip, an upper end surface of the sealing rubber strip is disposed around the edge of the front board, and a lower end surface of the sealing rubber strip is disposed around the edge of the back board.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the front sheet is selected from one of an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer film, a tempered film, a polytetrafluoroethylene film or a polyester film;
and/or the backsheet is an aluminum-containing photovoltaic backsheet.
In some embodiments of the invention, the front plate has a thickness of 50-300 μm;
and/or the thickness of the water resistance film is 25-200 μm;
and/or the thickness of the first water absorption film is 30-100 μm;
and/or the thickness of the back plate is 200-350 μm.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the second water-absorbent film has a thickness of 30 to 100 μm.
The invention also provides a packaging method of the solar cell, which is characterized in that the solar cell is stacked according to the packaging structure to form a solar component to be laminated and enters a laminating machine, and the packaging method comprises the following steps:
in the temperature rise stage, heating the part of the laminating machine is started, and the temperature rise range is controlled to be 120-160 ℃;
in the vacuumizing stage, after the solar module to be laminated after the lamination and lamination are finished enters an inner cavity of a laminating machine, vacuumizing is carried out for 350-700S, and the vacuum degree is 10-35 Pa;
a first pressurizing stage, pressurizing the solar module, wherein the pressure is-80 to-70 kPa, and the pressurizing time is 100 to 200S;
the second pressurizing stage, continuously pressurizing the solar module, wherein the pressure is-70 to-60 kPa, and the pressurizing time is 140 to 200S;
in the third pressurizing stage, the solar module is continuously pressurized, the pressure is-60 to-50 kPa, and the pressurizing time is 500 to 700S;
and in the cooling stage, the laminated solar module is conveyed to a cooling area through a conveyor belt, the cooling time is 180-300S, and the solar module is cooled to room temperature.
From the above, it can be seen that the present invention has the following advantages compared with the prior art:
the packaging structure and the packaging method of the solar cell provided by the invention can reduce the influence of water vapor erosion on the solar cell chip, prolong the service life of the solar cell, correspondingly reduce the water resistance effect of the water resistance film within the power loss bearing range of the component during the service life of the solar cell, and reduce the production cost.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to specific embodiments and the accompanying drawings.
The solar cell packaging structure provided by the embodiment comprises a back plate 9, a solar cell chip 7, a first water absorbing film 5, a water blocking film 3 and a front plate 1, wherein the back plate 9, the solar cell chip 7, the water blocking film 3 and the front plate 1 are arranged in a stacked mode from bottom to top, and the first water absorbing film 5 is arranged between the solar cell chip 7 and the water blocking film 3.
As shown in fig. 2, in this embodiment, optionally, when the first water absorbing film 5 is disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the water blocking film 3, the first water absorbing film 5 can effectively absorb water vapor permeating from one side of the water blocking film 3 into the solar cell, so as to effectively solve the problem of performance attenuation of the solar cell module caused by water vapor permeating into the solar cell module to erode the solar cell chip 7, and prolong the service life of the solar cell chip 7.
As shown in fig. 3, in this embodiment, preferably, the package structure further includes a second water-absorbing film 10, where the second water-absorbing film 10 is disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the back sheet 9, that is, the first water-absorbing film 5 is disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the water-blocking film 3, and the second water-absorbing film 10 is disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the back sheet 9, where the first water-absorbing film 5 disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the water-blocking film 3 can effectively absorb water vapor permeating from the water-blocking film 3 into the solar cell, and the second water-absorbing film 10 disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the back sheet 9 can effectively absorb water vapor permeating from the back sheet 9 into the solar cell. The first water absorption film 5 and the second water absorption film 10 are both high water absorption resin films, the upper and lower layers of high water absorption resin films can effectively absorb water vapor permeating into the solar cell module from one side of the water blocking film 3 and one side of the back plate 9, the water vapor and moisture are prevented from entering the solar cell chip 7, and the service life of the solar cell chip 7 is prolonged.
In the embodiment, due to the arrangement of the first water absorption film 5, the water blocking effect of the water resistance film 3 can be correspondingly reduced within the power loss bearing range of the solar cell module during the service life, so that the production cost is reduced, for example, the water blocking rate is required to be 10 in the prior art-4g/m2The first water absorption film 5 is used in the packaging structure, and the water resistance rate is 10- 3g/m2Or 10-2g/m2The water-blocking film is only needed, and the production cost is reduced.
In this embodiment, preferably, the lengths of the first water absorbing film 5 and the second water absorbing film 10 are longer than the length of the solar cell chip 7, and when the sealing strip 6 is used to encapsulate the two sides of the solar cell chip 7, the overflowing first water absorbing film 5 and the overflowing second water absorbing film 10 can absorb water vapor entering from the two sides, so that the water vapor does not corrode the solar cell chip 7.
In this embodiment, the synthetic resin having hydrophilic groups, which can absorb a large amount of water and keep the water from flowing out, can absorb water corresponding to 100 times or more of the volume of the resin, and the highest water absorption rate can be 1000 times or more. All are selected from one of polyacrylic acid film, polyvinyl alcohol film or polyoxyethylene film; preferably, the water absorbing film is a PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) film.
The PVA film has the following advantages:
the PVA film is a functional polymer material with high water absorption capacity and high water retention capacity, can absorb water which is dozens of times or thousands of times of the self weight, can not separate the water even under external pressure, and can be applied to the packaging of the solar cell to effectively prevent water vapor from corroding the solar cell chip 7.
The PVA film has no heat absorption and heat release phenomena in the water absorption process, so that the PVA film is applied to battery packaging without considering the influence on the battery in the working process.
The PVA film has good light transmission and extremely low fogging degree, and is used on a packaging structure without worrying about the influence on light absorption of a battery.
The PVA film has good heat sealability, compactness and strong bonding force, has good flexibility, high compressive strength, high tearing strength and long service life, and can be applied to solar cell packaging in a hot pressing mode.
Therefore, the PVA film is selected as the packaging adhesive film, the packaging adhesive film not only has the characteristics of high heat sealability and strong adhesive force, but also has high light transmittance, and the low atomization degree can effectively reduce the influence on the solar cell chip 7 to absorb sunlight and effectively increase the photoelectric conversion efficiency; meanwhile, the PVA film also has super-strong water absorption and retention capacity, effectively absorbs water entering the interior of the solar cell module, protects the solar cell chip 7 from water vapor erosion and oxidation, prolongs the service life of the solar cell and reduces the power attenuation of the solar cell in the using process.
As shown in fig. 2, in the present embodiment, the package structure further includes a first adhesive film 4, a second adhesive film 8, a third adhesive film 2, and a fourth adhesive film 11, wherein the first adhesive film 4 is disposed between the water-resistant film 3 and the first water-absorbent film 5, the second adhesive film 8 is disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the back sheet 9, the third adhesive film 2 is disposed between the front sheet 1 and the water-resistant film 3, and the fourth adhesive film 11 is disposed between the first water-absorbent film 5 and the solar cell chip 7.
As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the package structure further includes a first adhesive film 4, a second adhesive film 8, a third adhesive film 2, a fourth adhesive film 11, and a fifth adhesive film 12, the first adhesive film 4 is disposed between the water blocking film 3 and the first water absorbing film 5, the second adhesive film 8 is disposed between the second water absorbing film 10 and the back sheet 9, the third adhesive film 2 is disposed between the front sheet 1 and the water blocking film 3, the fourth adhesive film 11 is disposed between the first water absorbing film 5 and the solar cell chip 7, and the fifth adhesive film 12 is disposed between the solar cell chip 7 and the second water absorbing film 10.
In the present embodiment, the first adhesive film 4, the second adhesive film 8, the third adhesive film 2, the fourth adhesive film 11, and the fifth adhesive film 12 have a certain adhesive strength, specifically, each of the first adhesive film 4, the second adhesive film 8, the third adhesive film 2, the fourth adhesive film 11, and the fifth adhesive film 12 may be one of an EVA adhesive film, a POE (ethylene- α -olefin copolymer) adhesive film, or a PVB (polyvinyl butyral) adhesive film, and in the present embodiment, the first adhesive film 4, the second adhesive film 8, the third adhesive film 2, the fourth adhesive film 11, and the fifth adhesive film 12 are preferably an EVA adhesive film, which is a polyethylene-polyvinyl acetate copolymer, and has superiority in adhesion, durability, optical characteristics, and the like, so that it is increasingly widely applied to solar modules and various optical products.
In the present embodiment, the front plate 1 may be made of a material having a certain light transmittance, weather resistance, insulation, and water resistance, specifically, an ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer film (ETFE), a toughened film (GLASS), a polytetrafluoroethylene film (PTFE), or a polyester film (PET), and preferably, the front plate 1 is a PET frosted film.
In this embodiment, the package structure further includes a sealing rubber strip 6, an upper end surface of the sealing rubber strip 6 is disposed around the edge of the front board 1, and a lower end surface of the sealing rubber strip 6 is disposed around the edge of the back board 9. Therefore, a sealed space is formed among the front plate 1, the back plate 9 and the sealing rubber strip 6, the third bonding film 2, the water blocking film 3, the first bonding film 4, the first water absorbing film 5, the fourth bonding film 11, the solar cell chip 7 and the second bonding film 8 are all packaged in the space, and therefore protection of the solar cell chip 7 is improved, the sealing rubber strip 6 can be fixedly adhered to the edges of the front plate 1 and the back plate 9, and therefore the packaging reliability of the solar cell chip 7 is also enhanced.
In order to enhance the waterproof performance of the solar cell module, the sealing rubber strip 6 can be butyl rubber, which has good chemical stability and thermal stability, most prominently air tightness and water tightness, and also has good heat resistance, ozone resistance, aging resistance, chemical resistance, shock absorption, electrical insulation performance, good resistance to sunlight and ozone, and can effectively increase the stability of the whole structure of the cell.
In this embodiment, the water blocking film 3 may be made of a material having certain light transmittance, weather resistance, insulation property, and high water resistance, and optionally, the water blocking film 3 is a 3M water blocking film, and the combination of the water blocking film 3 and the front plate 1 can resist high temperature, moisture, and ultraviolet rays.
In order to prolong the service life of the solar cell module and reduce the problem of power attenuation in the long-term use process, the back plate 9 is required to play a role in protecting and supporting the cell piece and has reliable insulation, water resistance and aging resistance, and optionally, the back plate 9 is an aluminum-containing photovoltaic back plate.
In this embodiment, the thickness of the front plate 1 is 50-300 μm, the thickness of the third adhesive film 2 is 300-. If the thickness of the first water absorbing film 5 is too large, the permeability of the solar cell module may be affected, and if the thickness of the first water absorbing film 5 is too small, the waterproof performance is reduced; if the thickness of the front plate 1 is too large, the light transmittance of the solar cell module is affected, and if the thickness of the front plate 1 is too small, the water blocking performance is reduced; if the thickness of the back plate 9 is too large, the light reflection rate of the solar cell module is affected, and if the thickness of the back plate 9 is too small, the water blocking performance is reduced; if the thickness of the water-blocking film 3 is too large, the light transmittance of the solar cell module is impaired, and if the thickness of the water-blocking film 3 is too small, the water-blocking performance is lowered.
As shown in fig. 4, the embodiment further provides a method for encapsulating a solar cell, which is performed by stacking according to the above-mentioned encapsulation structure, for example, a back sheet 9, a second adhesive film 8, a sealant strip 6, a second water-absorbing film 10, a fifth adhesive film 12, a solar cell chip 7, a fourth adhesive film 11, a first water-absorbing film 5, a first adhesive film 4, a water-blocking film 3, a third adhesive film 2, and a front sheet 1 are sequentially stacked from bottom to top to form a solar module to be laminated, and the solar module is put into a laminator,
in the temperature rise stage, heating the part of the laminating machine is started, and the temperature rise range is controlled to be 120-160 ℃;
in the vacuumizing stage, after the solar module to be laminated after the lamination and lamination are finished enters an inner cavity of a laminating machine, vacuumizing is carried out for 350-700S, and the vacuum degree is 10-35 Pa;
a first pressurizing stage, pressurizing the solar module, wherein the pressure is-80 to-70 kPa, and the pressurizing time is 100 to 200S;
the second pressurizing stage, continuously pressurizing the solar module, wherein the pressure is-70 to-60 kPa, and the pressurizing time is 140 to 200S;
in the third pressurizing stage, the solar module is continuously pressurized, the pressure is-60 to-50 kPa, and the pressurizing time is 500 to 700S;
and in the cooling stage, the laminated solar module is conveyed to a cooling area through a conveyor belt, the cooling time is 180-300S, and the solar module is cooled to room temperature.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the discussion of any embodiment above is meant to be exemplary only, and is not intended to intimate that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, is limited to these examples; within the idea of the invention, also features in the above embodiments or in different embodiments may be combined, steps may be implemented in any order, and there are many other variations of the different aspects of the invention as described above, which are not provided in detail for the sake of brevity.
The embodiments of the invention are intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications and variances that fall within the broad scope of the appended claims. Therefore, any omissions, modifications, substitutions, improvements and the like that may be made without departing from the spirit and principles of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.