Flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module and production process thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11879669-B2
Application number	US-202017271208-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2020
Priority date	Apr 7, 2020
Publication date	Jan 23, 2024
Grant date	Jan 23, 2024

Abstract

A flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module and a production process thereof are disclosed. The flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module includes a frame. The lower surface of the frame is provided with a heat preservation back plate. The upper surface of the frame is sequentially laminated with a glass cover plate, a first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, a photovoltaic cell slice, a second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, a transparent back plate, a third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and a heat absorbing component from top to bottom. A heat preservation cavity is formed between the heat preservation back plate and the heat absorption part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A process for producing a flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module, the process comprising the following steps:
S1: manufacturing a pre-module: sequentially placing a transparent back plate, a second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, a photovoltaic cell slice, a first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and a glass cover plate from bottom to top, and placing the resulting system into a laminating machine for a first laminating, to prepare the pre-module;
S2: manufacturing a heat absorbing component, and embedding a cooling pipeline of the heat absorbing component into a laminating mold; and
S3: sequentially stacking a third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the pre-module on an upper surface of the heat absorbing component to form a lamination of the laminating mold, the heat absorbing component, the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the pre-module, wherein the transparent back plate of the pre-module is attached to the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, and placing the lamination into a laminating machine for a second laminating to form an integrated laminating structure;
wherein the flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module comprises a frame;
wherein a lower surface of the frame is provided with a heat preservation back plate;
wherein an upper surface of the frame is sequentially laminated with the glass cover plate, the first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, the photovoltaic cell slice, the second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, the transparent back plate, the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the heat absorbing component from top to bottom;
wherein the transparent back plate is a double-sided modified transparent TPT, and the first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, the second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive are all POE adhesive film;
wherein a heat preservation cavity is formed between the heat preservation back plate and the heat absorbing component; and
wherein the heat absorbing component comprises a heat absorbing metal plate and the cooling pipeline, which is composed of metal small pipes and metal headers is welded to a lower surface of the heat absorbing metal plate.

2. The process for producing the flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module according to claim 1 , wherein the laminating mold is provided with a groove for accommodating the cooling pipeline.

3. The process for producing the flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module according to claim 1 , wherein the process further comprises: assembling the integrated laminating structure, the heat preservation back plate and the frame to form a complete water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module.

4. A process for producing flat-plate water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module comprising a frame having a lower surface that is is provided with a heat preservation back plate and an upper surface that is sequentially laminated with a glass cover plate, a first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, a photovoltaic cell slice, a second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, a transparent back plate, a third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and a heat absorbing component from top to bottom, a heat preservation cavity being formed between the heat preservation back plate and the heat absorbing component, the process comprising:
sequentially placing the transparent back plate, the second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, the photovoltaic cell slice, the first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, and the glass cover plate from bottom to top;
performing a first lamination step to prepare a pre-module, the first lamination step comprising laminating the sequentially placed transparent back plate, second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, photovoltaic cell slice, first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, and glass cover plate;
manufacturing a heat absorbing component that comprises a heat absorbing metal plate and a cooling pipeline composed of metal small pipes and metal headers that are welded to the lower surface of the heat absorbing metal plate;
embedding the cooling pipeline of the heat absorbing component into a laminating mold;
sequentially stacking the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the pre-module on an upper surface of the heat absorbing component to form a lamination of the laminating mold, the heat absorbing component, the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the pre-module, wherein the transparent back plate of the pre-module is attached to the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and wherein the transparent back plate is a double-sided modified transparent TPT and the first photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive, the second photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive are all POE adhesive film; and
performing a second lamination step to form an integrated laminating structure, the second lamination step comprising laminating the lamination of the laminating mold, the heat absorbing component, the third photovoltaic cell laminating adhesive and the pre-module.

5. The process according to claim 4 , wherein the laminating mold is provided with a groove for accommodating the cooling pipeline.

6. The process according to claim 4 , further comprising assembling the integrated laminating structure, the heat preservation back plate and the frame to form a complete water-heating photovoltaic/thermal module.

Assignees

• Institute Of Energy Res Jiangxi Academy Of Sciences
• Univ Nanjing Sci & Tech

Inventors

• Luo Chenglong
• Sun Liyuan
• Zou Wu
• Xiong Jihai
• Fan Min
• Wan Bin

Classifications

• F24S80/58 Primary

  characterised by their mountings or fixing means · CPC title

• F24S10/50

  the working fluids being conveyed between plates · CPC title

• F24S25/60

  Fixation means, e.g. fasteners, specially adapted for supporting solar heat collector modules · CPC title

• F24S80/30

  Arrangements for connecting the fluid circuits of solar collectors with each other or with other components, e.g. pipe connections; Fluid distributing means, e.g. headers · CPC title

• F24S80/52

  characterised by the material (for preventing heat loss F24S80/56) · CPC title