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"Chinese solar manufacturing giant Trina Solar announced this week that it has
successfully produced the world’s first fully recycled crystalline silicon
(c-Si) module which still boasts efficiency of 20.7 per cent and power output
in excess of 645W.
The milestone was achieved by the Trina Solar Central Research Institute using
its own recycling technology and used materials recovered from waste modules –
including silicon, silver, aluminium frames, and glass.
Trina Solar said that it completed production of the recycled PV modules in
collaboration with its upstream and downstream partners and builds on the
company’s recycling efforts.
Trina Solar dismantles discarded solar PV modules and recycles broken silicon
wafers, while using a range of processes to obtain silicon wafers with
performance close to that of the original.
This includes the use of self-developed interlayer separation reagents,
chemical etching technology, wet chemical silver extraction technology and
other innovative technologies.
Glass and aluminium frames are recycled from discarded solar PV modules and
formed through a secondary melting process."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
