The thermal degradation of polycarbonate sheets was made from water-sodium hydroxide solution by spray pyrolysis. It was created a vacuum within nozzle for provides the spray. The material, before and after of the thermal degradation, were characterized by photoluminescence spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray fluorescence. Polycarbonate sheets, before and after of the thermal degradation, when ...
This paper presents a theoretical model relating the electrical power to the chemical power in a photosensitized dye-cell. The same is based on the junction of present concepts of chemical potential models and chemical power. Thus, from these two considerations is possible to perform tests under various physical and environmental conditions during the solar conversion process. Consequently, the proposed theoret...
This paper presents the study of the addition of the polyaniline polymer (PANI), at the junction of the cadmium telluride and cadmium sulfide (CdTe/CdS) layers in order to improve the contact between the layers, to decrease the air gap that limit the conversion photovoltaic. The morphology of CdS, CdTe and polyaniline (PANI) were characterized with multiple techniques including scanning electron microscopy (SEM...
A low cost spin coater was constructed in this work for the deposition of thin films of titanium dioxide (TiO2) on conductive substrate of FTO (fluoride doped tin oxide) with application on dye sensitized solar cells. The results showed a 95% precision between the speed values obtained by the software of C#sharp language and the spin values observed directly on the device. The TiO2 films deposited through the s...
Amongst the many parts of a silicon cells photovoltaic module, silicon is the most important and expensive constituent. Thus, research on silicon recycling from damaged cells can lead to economic and environmental benefits. In this work, the broken silicon cells were tailored to function along with the fluorine-doped tin oxide as the transparent electric conductors. The broken silicon cells were analyzed by the...
Este artigo apresenta uma revisão sobre asprincipaistecnologias de dessalinização térmica associadas a energia solar. O concentrador solar parabólico é uma tecnologia de aproveitamento de energia solar que consiste basicamente em aquecer um fluido de trabalho (água, óleos minerais ou sintéticos, ar) que está presente em umsistema, sendo então capaz de fornecer energia térmica. Quantos aos dessalinizadores térmi...
Análises bibliométricas são bastante úteis quando se deseja evidenciarrelações existentes entre diversas publicações que tratamde umdeterminado assunto(do mais abrangente ao mais específico).As análises podem ser de diversos tipos, tais como de citação e co-citação, easrelaçõespodem ser estabelecidas tendo como base unidades de análisetais comoautores, organizações (centros de pesquisa e universidades), países ...
The materials sizing in nano-scale is a challenge to be overcome, because the size determined by various methods differ. In order to shed light about the nanomaterials sizing, a modified Scherrer's equation was applied to estimate more accurately the nanostructured titanium dioxide crystal size. The manufactured titanium dioxide-nanostructured powder with nominal average size about 21nm was used as the referenc...
Nanoparticles of TiO2 have been the main semiconductor applied in Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In this work, solar cells were developed from the electrophoretic deposition of anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) films on conductive glasses. The electrophoretic deposition was perfomed with a constant voltage of 80V for 2 minutes and, after drying, the films were sintered at three different temperatures: 450 °C...
Titanate nanotubes (TiNTs) with the chemical composition Na2Ti3O7.nH2O (NaTiNT) were obtained through a hydrothermal method in highly alkaline medium. Protonated titanates nanotubes (H-TiNTs), with the composition H2Ti3O7.nH2O, were prepared by ion exchange reaction through a suspension of Na2Ti3O7nH2O nanotubes in HCl medium, promoting the exchange of Na+ ions by H+. Both Na2Ti3O7.nH2O and H2Ti3O7.nH2O produc...