Publication detail

Recycling of photovoltaic cells with the possibility of re-use some components

ŠIMONOVÁ, L. VANĚK, J. DEMCHIKHIN, S.

Original Title

Recycling of photovoltaic cells with the possibility of re-use some components

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Development and installation of photovoltaic (PV) is reaching a large number around the world. Taking into accout that the lifetime of photovoltaic modules sis about 25 years, the question occurs, how we deal with destruction of many such modules in the future. Currently, the old modules are disposed in two basic wals – environmental disposal and recycling. Each options has its pros and cons. We must take into account both the cast of disposal but also on its environmental impact. As for recycling, we can minimize the amount of residual waste from recycled PV modules, we focused on recycling methods with the possibility of using some components that remain after recycling. Recycling must be taken into account all the materials which the PV modules are manufactured, including materials that are used to encapsulate and protect the PV cells. Major recyclable materials for PV modules, which need to be addressed as aluminum, glass, plastic components and to a small extent by heavy metals are. Whether or not worth re-use some components in the manufacture of solar modules, we investigated on the basis of measurements of individual properties and parameters of such a newly manufactured article properties of commercially manufactured articles.

Keywords

ecological destruction, recycling, recycled materials, chemical processes, thermal processes

Authors

ŠIMONOVÁ, L.; VANĚK, J.; DEMCHIKHIN, S.

RIV year

2012

Released

17. 10. 2012

ISBN

978-80-214-4610-6

Book

Advanced Batteries Accumulators and Fuel Cells - 13th ABAF Book of Proceedings

Pages from

50

Pages to

55

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT94506,
  author="Lucie {Šimonová} and Jiří {Vaněk} and Sergey {Demchikhin}",
  title="Recycling of photovoltaic cells with the possibility of re-use some components",
  booktitle="Advanced Batteries Accumulators and Fuel Cells - 13th ABAF Book of Proceedings",
  year="2012",
  pages="50--55",
  isbn="978-80-214-4610-6"
}