Cleaner production via industrial symbiosis in glass and largescale solar photovoltaic manufacturing

Author

Nosrat, Amir H. ; Jeswiet, Jack ; Pearce, Joshua M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Mater. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

26-27 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

967

Lastpage

970

Abstract

In order to alleviate production costs and increase the environmental performance of solar photovoltaic manufacturing, an eco-industrial park for GW-scale production of PV is proposed. This article quantifies the inputs and outputs for the glass manufacturing component of such a system using standard manufacturing techniques. Utilizing industrial symbiosis in this way, potential reductions for such a plant were found to be about 30,000 tons/year in raw materials and over 220,000 GJ/year in embodied energy.

Keywords

cost reduction; environmental factors; glass products; industrial economics; production management; solar cells; standards; GW-scale production; cleaner production; ecoindustrial park; environmental performance; glass manufacturing component; glass-and-largescale solar photovoltaic manufacturing; industrial symbiosis; production cost reduction; standard manufacturing techniques; Costs; Environmental factors; Glass industry; Glass manufacturing; Industrial relations; Manufacturing industries; Photovoltaic systems; Production; Solar power generation; Symbiosis; cleaner production; glass; industrial ecology; industrial symbiosis; photovoltaic; recycling; renewable energy; solar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH), 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3877-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3878-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444358

Filename

5444358