ORAL

SESSION: RecyclingWedAM-R4	5th Intl. Symp. on Sustainable Materials Recycling Processes and Products
Wed Oct, 25 2017	Room: Peninsula 4
Session Chairs: Teodora Retegan; Christoph Sorger; Session Monitor: TBA

15:30: [RecyclingWedAM07]
[Solid and liquid wastes from industrial processes: Innovations in material recovery and environmental protection] Pilot Scale Tests for Recycling of Photovoltaic Panels by Physical and Chemical Treatment
Francesca Pagnanelli¹ ; Pietro Altimari² ; Emanuela Moscardini³ ; Luigi Toro² ; Thomas Abo Atia² ; Ludovica Baldassari⁴ ; Flavia Carla Dos Santos Martins Padoan¹ ; ¹Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ²Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; ³Sapienza University, Roma, Italy; ⁴Eco Recycling srl, Cerveteri, Italy;
Paper Id: 331 [Abstract]

In this work, the experimental results of the treatment at pilot scale of photovoltaic panels of different technologies were reported. The recycling route includes a sequence of mechanical and chemical operations in order to recover glass and other useful materials. After mechanical treatment, ground material is sieved and only the coarse fraction is treated by solvent treatment in order to have the detachment of panel fragments into different components: solar grade glass, metallic filaments, back sheet foils (Tedlar), polymeric gluing components (EVA aggregates). The fine fractions emerging from mechanical treatment is treated by acid leaching in order to remove metals and obtain another recoverable glass powder. Recycling rate of the demonstrated process was 80% and 85% for Si based panels and CdTe panels, respectively.