Bussing Machine Improvement of 20MW/Year Solar Panel Production Line: A case study of Ethiopian Power Engineering Industry (Sandafa)
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kassahun Yimer (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Samrawit Temesgen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-14T09:30:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-14T09:30:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ethiopia has plenty of sunshine months compared to the developed world and other African countries by recording 80% of solar energy potential. However, currently the one and only renewable energy industry is the “Ethiopian Power Engineering Industry” that stopped the production of the PV panels, due to lack of management skills and economic problems to be competitive on the PV market in assembling the solar cell in the industry continuously. On this research, knowledge based technical solutions given to the management and the supervisor of the industry, while the industry has faced a technical problem on the solar cell connecting machine/bussing machine which means the machine has stopped connecting the solar cells. Data collected from the internet, site survey and questionnaire in order to analyze the problems. Based on the data collected this paper presents innovative solutions with three solar cell connecting technology for the technical problem of the bussing/solar cell connecting machine of the 20MW/year PV panel production line in the industry. By comparing these innovative solar cell connecting technologies for the bussing machines simulation run with the software Griddler 2.5 for the bus bars variations the I-V characteristics, power output and the Fill Factor effect of the solar cells simulated. However, currently the industry is using the 2 Bus Bars (2BB) technology produced by the bussing machine but from the output of the software smart wire solar cell connecting technology is preferable. A recommendation was made for the industry economically to apply the smart wire solar cell connecting technology and it is recommended that to do more researches on this technology. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/5443 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.subject | Solar cell connecting technologies | |
| dc.subject | PV module production line | |
| dc.subject | bussing machine | |
| dc.subject | Solar cell Bus bars | |
| dc.title | Bussing Machine Improvement of 20MW/Year Solar Panel Production Line: A case study of Ethiopian Power Engineering Industry (Sandafa) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |