Investigation of Mechanical Processing of Solar Photovoltaic Panels

0586571 - ÚCHP 2025 CZ eng K - Conference Paper (Czech conference)
Šperlich, Antonín
Investigation of Mechanical Processing of Solar Photovoltaic Panels.
Proceedings of Abstracts. Prague: Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, v. v. i., 2024 - (Orvalho, S.; Wagner, Z.), s. 25-26. ISBN 978-80-86186-32-0.
[Bažant Postgraduate Conference 2024. Prague (CZ), 05.06.2024-06.06.2024]
Institutional support: RVO:67985858
Keywords : solar photovoltaic panels * selective milling * Knelson
OECD category: Chemical process engineering

This work aims to describe the possibilities of mechanical treatment of solar photovoltaic panels. In the first part, the shredding and milling process for the transformation of the product (whole panel) into material that can be further processed, was investigated. Milled material was sieved and analyzed. It was observed that this shredding also works as a selective grinding because three main products were produced. The second part of this work was aimed at the physical concentration of silver in real samples of milled solar photovoltaic panels by Knelson separator. This device (type of centrifugal separator) showed the ability to significantly increase the amount of silver in the outcome stream.
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