Patented sieving process developed by research team at UNSW Sydney significantly improves the way important materials from photovoltaic panels can be separated and extracted for reuse.
UNSW Sydney engineers have developed a new, more effective way of recycling solar panels, which can recover silver at high efficiency.
The process, which has been patented, has been specially created for photovoltaic panels in order to quickly and efficiently sort the component materials, as a key step of highly efficient PV recycling.
Recycling solar panels thoroughly has proven difficult up to now since the individual parts, such as glass, silicon, metals, wiring and plastic, are integrated in such a way that makes them hard to separate.
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