Borealis Ag

Borealis Technology Oy

Bert Broeders

Francis Costa

Jeroen Oderkerk

Stefan Hellstrom

Girish Suresh Galgali

Bernt-Ake Sultan

Mattias Bergqvist

Henk Van Paridon

Bart Verheule

Joachim Fiebig

Tanja Piel

Nina Ackermans

Klaus Bernreitner

Martina Sandholzer

Pirjo Jääskeläinen

Marijke Verpoest

Antti Tynys

Anh Tuan Tran

Irene Helland

Wilhelmus Henricus Adolf Sars

Stefan Hellström

Bernt-Åke Sultan

Helge Grande

Guido Boelaers

Mattias Berqvist

Urban Andreasson

Werner Krumlacher

Harald Muckenhuber

Michaela Plank

Verena Schenk

Manfred Tryner

Kristina Akyuz-Karlsson

Philippe Gilles

Stefan Hellstroem

Stefan HELLSTRÖM

Kristina AKYÜZ Karlsson

Gilles Philippe

Peter Voortmans

The present invention relates a photovoltaic module comprising a protective front layer element, an encapsulation layer element, a photovoltaic cell element and a protective back layer element, whereby at least one of the protective elements comprises glass; wherein the encapsulation layer element comprises a polymer composition (I) comprising at least the following components: (A) 97.00 to 99.99 wt.-% based on the overall weight of the polymer composition (I) of a polymer selected from an ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer, a polyolefin elastomer or a polymer of ethylene (a) selected from (a1) a copolymer of ethylene which bears functional groups containing units; (a2) a copolymer of ethylene comprising one or more polar comonomer unit(s) selected from (C1-C6)-alkyl acrylate or (C1-C6)-alkyl (C1-C6)-alkyl acrylate comonomer units, and optionally bears functional groups containing units different from said polar comonomer unit(s); (a3) a copolymer of ethylene comprising one or more alpha-olefin comonomer unit(s); and optionally bears functional groups containing units different from said polar comonomer unit(s) of polymer (a2); or mixtures thereof; and (b) silane group(s) containing units; (B) 0.01 to 3.00 wt.-% based on the overall weight of the polymer composition (I) of a compound according to Formula (I); wherein; R, R, Rand Rare each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, n-alkyl, iso-alkyl, alkoxy, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, halogen and mixtures thereof; X is selected from the group consisting of primary amines, secondary amines, tertiary amines, hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl and mixtures thereof. Furthermore, the present invention refers to the use of an encapsulation layer element comprising polymer composition (I) according to the invention for increasing the Pdetermined after 96 h according to IEC 60904, by applying the foil method with a temperature of 85° C. and relative humidity of 60% and a potential difference of 1500 V, of a photovoltaic module comprising besides the encapsulation layer element a protective front layer element, a photovoltaic cell element and a protective back element, whereby at least one of the protective elements comprises glass.

Photovoltaic module with increased resistance against potential induced degradation

The present invention relates to a lamination process for producing a multilayer laminate, preferably to a lamination process for producing a photovoltaic (PV) module, and to a PV module laminate.

Process for producing a multilayer laminate

The present invention relates to a polymer composition, to an article comprising the polymer composition, preferably to an article which is a photovoltaic (PV) module comprising at least one layer element (LE) comprising the polymer composition and to a process for producing said article, preferably said photovoltaic (PV) module.

Polymer composition for photovoltaic applications

The invention is a polymer composition for film layer comprising less than 50 wt % of a copolymer of ethylene with silane group(s) containing units and at least 50 wt % of a thermoplastic polyolefine free from silane group(s) wherein the polymer composition has creep of less than 1 mm at 90&#xb0; C., and an adhesion above 20 N/cm. The invention relates to a laminated article with at least one film layer of the polymer composition and a substrate.

Laminated film comprising ethylene copolymer

A polymer composition with a polymer of ethylene with a comonomer with silane group(s) containing units and an additive that is an organic compound with at least one amine moiety that has a gel content less than 10 wt % after 7 days at ambient conditions and a gel content of at least 15 wt % gel content after 14 days at 100&#xb0; C. The film can be used in a laminate.

Film with moderate crosslinking

The present invention relates to a polymer composition, to a use of the polymer composition for producing an article, to an article comprising the polymer composition, preferably to an article which comprises a layer element comprising at least one layer which comprises the polymer composition.

Polypropylene composition

The present invention relates to a polymer composition for a layer element, to a use of the polypropylene composition for producing at least one layer of a layer element, preferably of a layer element of an article, preferably of a photovoltaic module, to a layer element, preferably a layer element of an article, preferably of a photovoltaic module, wherein said layer element comprises at least one layer comprising the polymer composition, as well as to an article, which is preferably a photovoltaic module.

Polypropylene compositions for a layer element

The present invention relates to a lamination process for producing a multilayer laminate which comprises a one or more substrate element(s) and one or more polymeric layer element(s), preferably to a lamination process for producing a photovoltaic (PV) module, and to a PV module laminate.

The present invention is directed to a new polypropylene composition, polypropylene fibres comprising said polypropylene composition, a spunbonded fabric comprising said polypropylene fibres and/or polypropylene composition, an article comprising said polypropylene fibres and/or said spunbonded fabric as well as to a process for the preparation of such spunbonded fabric and the use of such polypropylene composition for improving the stability of a fibre spinning line.

Fiber grade with improved spinning performance and mechanical properties

The present invention relates to a polymer composition, to a layer element, preferably to at least one layer element of a photovoltaic module, comprising the polymer composition and to an article which is preferably said at least one layer of a layer element, preferably of a layer element of a photovoltaic module.

Polymer composition for a layer of a layer element

A process for sealing a machine direction oriented polypropylene or polyethylene film to a substrate comprising bringing said film and said substrate into contact and subjecting at least a part of the contact area to ultrasound so as to form a seal between said film and said substrate.

Sealing oriented films

Coated nonwoven fabric comprising a nonwoven fabric layer and a coating, said coating comprises a polymer having a branching index g' of equal or below 0.9.

Breathable nonwoven composite

The invention relates to a process for preparing polypropylene films, a polypropylene film obtained by such a process, use of said polypropylene film as packaging material, an article comprising said polypropylene film as well as to the use of a polypropylene composition to improve the processability of a film production process.

Increased output of a film extrusion process

Melt-blown fiber having an average diameter of not more than 5.0 &#x3bc;m, said fiber comprises at least 85 wt.-% of a propylene copolymer, wherein &#x2022;said melt blown fiber and/or said propylene copolymer has/have a melt flow rate MFR(230&#xb0; C.) measured according to ISO 1133 of at least 200 g/10 min, &#x2022;said propylene copolymer has a comonomer content of 0.5 to 5.5 wt.-%, the comonmers are ethylene and/or at least one Cto C&#x3b1;-olefin selected from the group consisting of 1-butene, 1-pentene, 1-hexene, 1-heptene, and 1-octene, &#x2022;the propylene copolymer has &#x3c;2,1&#x3e; regiodefects of not more than 0.4 mol.-% determined byC-spectroscopy, and &#x2022;said melt blown fiber and/or said propylene copolymer fulfill(s) the equation (1). wherein Tm [&#xb0; C.] is the melting temperature [given in &#xb0; C.] of melt blown fiber said and/or of said propylene copolymer measured according to ISO 11357-3, C2 [wt %] is the amount [given in weight percentage] of comonomers within said melt blown fiber and/or within said propylene copolymer determined with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). 

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