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While CdTe photovoltaics offer the promise of renewable, nonpolluting, and low cost electricity generation, cadmium and cadmium compounds have well known toxicological properties that demand consideration of nondispersive end-of-life module and manufacturing scrap disposal. With the support of a United States Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research grant, Solar Cells Inc. has designed and installed a CdTe PV recycling pilot plant capable of processing 2 MW per shift per year of 60×120 cm modules, rated nominally at 50 W p. The primary process outputs are clean, salable glass cullet, cadmium carbonate, electrolytically refined tellurium and clean ethylene-vinyl acetate. Cost modeling shows these recovered materials are achieved at a processing cost of US $0.04 per watt or less
Published in:
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1997., Conference Record of the Twenty-Sixth IEEE
Date of Conference: 29 Sep-3 Oct 1997
- Page(s):
- 355 - 358
- Meeting Date :
- 29 Sep 1997-03 Oct 1997
- ISSN :
- 0160-8371
- Print ISBN:
- 0-7803-3767-0
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 5883813
- Conference Location :
- Anaheim, CA
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/PVSC.1997.654101
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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