Solar panel are composed of photovoltaic(PV) cells that convert sunlight to electricity, when these panels enter landfills, valuable resource go to waste. And because solar panels contain toxic materials like lead that can lead out as they break down, landfilling also creates new environmental hazards.
Normally, life time of solar PV panels is about 30 years. After 30 years from installed time that solar PV panels will become wastes if they are not recycled properly. At present, solar panels installed in the 1990s have entered the obsolescence period.Some studies predict that by the end of 2020, the cumulative scrap volume of Photovoltaic modules in China is expected to exceed 20 million tons. After that, the number of discarded PV modules will increase significantly. It can be seen that in today’s world where renewable energy is gradually replacing petroleum energy, long-term recycling of solar panels has great significance to accelerate the construction of circular economy and realizes sustainable development of renewable energy and economy.
Henan Renewable Energy Technology Company has developed solar PV panel recycling machine which has benefit with non-toxic, high separation efficiency and low cost and easy to deal with large-scale in the process on facing the problems existing in the recycling and utilization of solar panels recycling.It has important application value and academic significance.Our solar panel recycling machine can extract valuable copper,silicon powder and plastic through crushing and sorting. There are three steps to recycle the waste solar PV panel: First, using machine or workers to dismantle the back, wire and aluminum frame. Second, the whole modules is crushed shredder machine to remove the tempered glass. Third the remain panel is separated metal and plastic after crushing and grinding.
