Life Cycle Assessment of Two Experimental Recycling Processes for c-Si Solar Modules

Monteiro Lunardi, Marina, Ribeiro Dias, Pablo, Marcelo Veit, Hugo, Schmidt, Lucas, Corkish, Richard

ISES Solar World Congress 2019 · Santiago, Chile · 2019-11-04
Published by International Solar Energy Society (ISES)
DOI: 10.18086/swc.2019.42.05

Abstract

In this work we calculate and compare the environmental impacts using LCA methodology for two experimental recycling processes for c-Si PV modules using organic and inorganic solvents. The impacts are calculated using a mix of available LCI data from Ecoinvent database and experimental data from the Laboratory of Corrosion, Protection and Recycling of Materials (LACOR - Brazil) and the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW Sydney.

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