A European team from the industry and the academic world integrates organic solar cells in woven polyester textile for outdoor use, such as in tents or awnings. The Suntex project also focuses on improving the sustainability and efficiency of organic photovoltaic.
European researchers from the industry and the academic world integrate organic thin-film photovoltaic cells (OOG) in woven textiles for use in lightweight outdoor structures, such as tents or awnings.
The Suntex project includes work on improving OV -durability and efficiency. It is a three -year € 2.13 million ($ 2.47 million) in the Eurostars funded initiative.
“We focus on outdoor applications such as textile facades, festival tents and shadow structures. So our textile must be resistant to all kinds of influence from the environment, such as UV, wind and water. Of course we also provide indoor applications such as curtains/awareness,” project leader Pauline van Dongen said PV -Magazine.
The new textile, which shares the same name as the project, is made of strips of encapsulated cone woven in panels made with recycled high -quality polyester threads and manufactured in a polyester weaving process.
Differentiation of Suntex of earlier textile-integrated PV concepts that laminate thin-film solar cells on existing textiles, said Van Dongen: “We work together with a modular system where we can separate the textile, organic photovoltaic cells (up-to-use) when they can repair the material when the material can be repaired the material the material can be repaired by the material the material can be repaired the material the material. are, “he has been given up.
Reports OPT technology has been chosen because it contains no harmful chemicals, can be printed in any form and is flexible, while the chosen textile recycled high-quality polyester threads uses. A single thread usually consists of hundreds of fiber and according to the team one can wear a maximum of 9 kg. Five cm from the textile is said to resist 300 kg.
The group has powerful objects that are not announced. It is planning to work on encapsulation, new organic materials and new configurations. “For Inkapseling we look at a variety of flexible barrier materials, and we use Roll to Roll (R2R) techniques for the complete OPT OPT -manufacturing process,” Morten Madsen, from Project Party of Southern Denmark (SDU) PV Magazine.
Two of the project partners have been working on this type of textile since 2021, namely Pauline van Dongen Innovations BV and Tentech BV, an architecture and engineering company that specializes in lightweight structures, both located in the Netherlands. They are merged into this project, by SDU, Rheinisch-Westfälische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Kettler Berufskleidung & Technical Textilien GmbH and Grafisk Maskinfabrik a/s.
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