TY - JOUR
T1 - Life Cycle Assessment of Coated-Glass Recovery from Perovskite Solar Cells
AU - Rodriguez-Garcia, Gonzalo
AU - Aydin, Erkan
AU - De Wolf, Stefaan
AU - Carlson, Brett
AU - Kellar, Jon
AU - Celik, Ilke
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-11-05
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): IED OSR-2019-4208, OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079, IED OSR-2020-4208
Acknowledgements: 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.
PY - 2021/11/3
Y1 - 2021/11/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/673121
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05029
U2 - 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05029
DO - 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05029
M3 - Article
SN - 2168-0485
JO - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
JF - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
ER -
