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Key Challenges in Manufacturing
Building - Integrated Photovoltaics
Melissa Mushrush
The Dow Chemical Company
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Grand Traverse Pie Company, 2600 N. Saginaw
Rd, Midland
6:00pm Free sandwiches while they last
7:00pm Presentation
The solar industry is growing at an astonishing rate, which continues well
into the foreseeable future in market projections. As with any relatively
new industry, there are unique challenges for each component of a
photovoltaic system, from the active cells themselves all the way to the
final installation. As a world leader in both energy and materials
innovation, Dow has established itself as a significant presence in all
aspects of the emerging PV technologies. This overview of photovoltaics
will cover the current state of the art for the various PV system
components, the particular engineering challenges for these components, and
an in-depth look at reliability testing and accelerated aging for PV.
Melissa Mushrush completed a double-major at Wesleyan
University in Connecticut in the chemistry and Russian departments. She
then pursued an MS and Ph.D. at Northwestern University, working on organic
field-effect transistors with Professor Tobin Marks. She came to Dow in 2003
and worked on short projects in Polymer Chemistry, Epoxy R&D, Polyolefins
(Catalysis), and Building & Construction before joining the High-Throughput
Formulations Group. In the fall of 2006, she was one of the first handful
of people to start building Dow Solar Solutions, where she has been ever
since.
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