EVERPV
Highly efficient delamination technologies to recover and reuse metals, glass, polymers from end-of-life photovoltaic panels
Informazioni Generali
- Coordinatore:
- CEA - COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Francia)
- Responsabile:
- TAMMARO MARCO - SSPT-EC-RMP (PORTICI (NA))
- Ruolo ENEA:
- PARTNER
- Sito WEB:
- Sito WEB non disponibile
Programmi Europei
- Programma:
- HORIZON EUROPE (2021-2027) -> Cluster 5 - D3 Energy supply (IA - Innovation Action)
Descrizione e Attività
Descrizione Generale
EVERPV's objective is to provide EU with efficient solutions for a sustainable treatment of end-of-life PV panels and recovery of high purity and high integrity materials. Based on the grinding of PV panels waste from the backside and/or the use of IR lamps heating, EVERPV will demonstrate two innovative technologies to delaminate the different layers of the PV panel. Combined with recycling processes, it will enable to recover glass with less than 1% impurities, encapsulant and backsheet polymers with a purity over 99%, and silver with a purity of 99%. Besides, the project will cluster with other EU-funded consortia already addressing the recycling of silicon (e.g. PHOTORAMA) to provide with a global solution. The new delamination technologies will be respectively demonstrated at ENVIE recycling plant and at 9TECH to reach TRL7. The technology demonstrated during EVERPV project targets to process more than 3000 tons of solar panels per year, thus recovering enough raw materials recovered to produce more than 350 000 new panels per year by 2030. EVERPV will finally demonstrate the potential for reusability of recovered materials in several industrial value chains in particular in the PV industry. The project will lead a strategic analysis on the potential of new EoL panels circular value chains based on estimated PV waste generation together with environmental and societal impact assessments. EVERPV has gathered a consortium of 16 participants from 8 countries whose expertise ranges from solar PV materials and recycling processes (CEA, CSEM, ENEA, TEC), recyclers (ENVIE, 9TECH), process industries and materials suppliers (SGB, DTF, DPL, JBR), PV modules manufacturing (VAL), collecting and waste treatment organizations (SOREN, ERION), policy-making, business and training facilitators (SPE, UNITAR, BI).
Attività svolta da ENEA
L'ENEA partecipa come Partner per attività sperimentali e di studi. In particolare: attività sperimentali su impianto prototipale in Casaccia per ottimizzare il processo di recupero di materie dai rifiuti composti da pannelli fotovoltaici a fine vita e basato su brevetto ENEA-BetaTech; sviluppo in laboratorio di processi di recupero dell'argento contenuto nelle matrici recuperate con il processo sopra descritto; valutazione impatto ambientale, mediante LCA/LCC, dei processi di trattamento e recupero oggetto del progetto