In WP1, SINTEF & Norsun will work on recovery & reuse during silicon ingot crystallisation, addressing recovery of argon purge gas and work with Steuler on reusable crucibles. In WP2 Garbo will recover Si-kerf-loss during wafering, and with SINTEF work on potential reuse applications, like as Si-feedstock in crystallisation processes, or as resource in crucible manufacturing or lithium ion battery production. In WP3, ISC&SoliTek will look into potential for re-using process water; reducing material resources, like chemicals and silver, by smarter solar cell design, more efficient processes and recovery and reuse of chemicals; AIMEN will develop solar cell monitoring and repair for inline processing in an industrial plant, to enable remanufacturing. In WP4 Apollon will use a module design that results in reduced bill of materials, enables remanufacturing and reuse of components from modules that showed failures after assembly or have been identified as malfunctioning in operating PV installations, based on integrated diagnosis techniques for the detection of failure modes. Bifa will collect data from all previous WPs to assess environmental impact of the intended innovations (WP5). Bifa will identify waste streams that are costly and hard to recycle and find opportunities to repurpose those waste products. BCC will disseminate the results and will support the partners with the exploitation and replication potential of the results (WP6).
Consortium:
- STIFTELSEN SINTEF, Norway (Coordinator)
- NORSUN AS, Norway
- UAB SOLI TEK R&D, Lithuania
- INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCHCENTER KONSTANZ ISC EV, Germany
- APOLLON SOLAR, France
- GARBO SRL, Italy
- BOUKJE.COM CONSULTING BV, Netherlands
- BIFA UMWELTINSTITUT GMBH, Germany
- ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTE, Spain
- STEULER SOLAR TECHNOLOGY AS, Norway
- INGESEA AUTOMATION SL, Spain
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 679692
See, the project website for more information http://ecosolar.eu.com/