From pv journal France
The European purpose to determine a PV worth chain faces the sector’s substantial uncooked materials necessities. Given the power transition context, recycling useful supplies is of strategic significance. With this goal, CEA has harnessed its technical experience to create an revolutionary course of for recycling silver and silicon on the finish of their life cycle.
“The CEA has been deploying R&D for greater than 60 years in a round financial system context, with the nuclear gasoline cycle which is a part of this logic of circularity,” Virginie Basini, head of CEA’s sustainable applied sciences division, instructed pv journal France.
Silver represents greater than 30% of a panel’s worth.
“The entire problem of recycling is to ensure most purity of this high-value materials in an effort to permit its reuse,” Basini stated. “That is additionally the case for silicon, the vast majority of which recovered might be directed in direction of the excessive purity silicon sectors utilized in microelectronics or photovoltaics. The glass, which stays intact after delamination, will also be recycled within the flat glass sector.”
Whereas there is not a longtime channel for repurposing panels, a big progress in such utilization is anticipated within the close to future. Within the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes area, an rising industrial sector is being formed by Solreed, an organization established in 2023 as a CEA spinoff. This startup is about to forge partnerships amongst non-public, public, and ESS entities to drive the event of this novel sector.
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