Life Cycle Assessment of Coated-Glass Recovery from Perovskite Solar Cells
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Rodriguez-Garcia, Gonzalo
Aydin, Erkan

De Wolf, Stefaan

Carlson, Brett
Kellar, Jon

Celik, Ilke

KAUST Department
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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IED OSR-2019-4208OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079
IED OSR-2020-4208
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2021-11-03Online Publication Date
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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are emerging photovoltaic devices with great potential to become a terawatt-scale technology. To develop sustainable end-of-life strategies for PSCs, we performed a life cycle assessment on 13 PSC recycling techniques, focusing on the recovery of coated glass. We found that the ecotoxicity due to the consumption of materials is the major contributor to the environmental impact. All but one of the techniques generated more environmental impacts than the production of virgin coated glass. We also found that material reuse and recovery are the key to sustainable coated glass recycling. We can decrease the impact of these techniques between 56 and 68% by recovering the solvent, and further reductions are possible reusing solvents. Techniques with a thermal or a physical process would need to lower their electricity and material use in addition to solvent reuse and recovery to become an environmentally sustainable reality.Citation
Rodriguez-Garcia, G., Aydin, E., De Wolf, S., Carlson, B., Kellar, J., & Celik, I. (2021). Life Cycle Assessment of Coated-Glass Recovery from Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05029Sponsors
We thank Rosario Vidal from the Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, Spain) for her assistance with the nitrogen drying process. This work is funded by the StartUp funding of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. E.A. and S.D.W. thank the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for the financial support via Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under award no. KAUST OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079, IED OSR-2019-4208, and IED OSR-2020-4208.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Additional Links
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05029ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05029