Life Cycle Assessment of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Module Delamination with Hot Knife Technology: IEA PVPS Task 12: PV Sustainability

Rolf Frischknecht; Keiichi Komoto; Taisuke Doi; Garvin Heath

doi:10.2172/2308826

Life Cycle Assessment of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Module Delamination with Hot Knife Technology: IEA PVPS Task 12: PV Sustainability

Rolf Frischknecht, Keiichi Komoto, Taisuke Doi, Garvin Heath (NREL Technical Monitor)

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to complete a life cycle assessment (LCA) of a novel technology that separates the crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic (PV) module front glass from the backsheet using hot knife technology. This is known to be the most challenging step in module recycling, where the choice of delamination approach can determine the process selection for the next steps of the recycling process, the economic value of the recovered materials, and environmental performance.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/2308826
State	Published - 2023

Bibliographical note

NREL's Garvin Heath is a task manager of IEA PVPS Task 12

NREL Publication Number

NREL/TP-6A20-88857

Other Report Number

Report IEA-PVPS T12-25:2023

Keywords

backsheet
crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules
front glass
hot knife
life cycle assessment

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