Title :
Results from scaling up the new universal chemical recycling procedure for CIS, CIGS and CdTe photovoltaic waste
Author :
Palitzsch, Wolfram ; Loser, Ulrich
Author_Institution :
Loser Chem. GmbH, Langenweissbach, Germany
Abstract :
The authors report the results from scaling up of an universal chemical recycling procedure for copper-indium-gallium-diselenide, copper-indium-diselenide and cadmiumtelluride and similar thinfilm-photovoltaic-waste, including EOL. They present the analytical data for the obtained solutions containing the metals in very high concentration. The analytical data for the yielded clean glass are also reported. The treated glass is useful for float glass production as has been shown successfully in a large-scale test.
Keywords :
copper compounds; gallium compounds; glass; indium compounds; recycling; solar cells; CdTe; Cu(In-Ga)Se2; EOL; cadmium telluride photovoltaic waste; clean glass; copper-indium-gallium-diselenide photovoltaic waste; float glass production; metals; thin- film photovoltaic waste; universal chemical recycling procedure; Chemicals; Glass; Metals; Photovoltaic systems; Production; Recycling;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011 37th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9966-3
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186350