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Solar panel recycling plant is an industrial facility specifically designed for the sustainable processing of end-of-life, decommissioned, or damaged photovoltaic modules. The plant employs advanced mechanical, thermal, and chemical processes to extract and purify high-value materials such as glass, aluminum, high-purity silicon, copper, and precious metals like silver.

Raw Materials:Scrap, decommissioned or damaged photovoltaic modules.
Final Products: Glass, aluminum, silicon, copper, silver and plastic.
Main Part: Solar panel frame dismantling machine, solar panel glass removal machine, crusher, shredder, grinder, smelting equipment, sorting equipment, dust removal equipment, precious metal refining equipment, etc.

Product Description

Our independently developed large-scale solar photovoltaic module recycling equipment boasts advantages such as environmental friendliness, non-toxicity, high separation efficiency, low cost, and ease of processing, making it of significant application and academic value. This equipment employs physical and pyrolysis processes to extract glass, junction box, aluminum, silicon powder, copper powder, EVA plastic powder, and precious metal silver, transforming solar waste into high-value recycled raw materials and maximizing the return on investment.

The Value of Recycling

Most of the waste photovoltaic panel components can be recycled, including 65%-75% glass, 5%-10% aluminum frame, 10% plastic (encapsulation machine and backplane), 3%-5% silicon, 1% copper And less than 0.1% of silver, tin, lead, etc., has a very high recovery value, the recovery rate can reach more than 99%. Macquarie University in Australia calculates that the economic value of materials contained in 800,000 tons of photovoltaic waste is around US$1.25 billion. Since the photovoltaic panels contain more than 70% of high-transparency glass, they can be processed into channel glass, which can be used as photovoltaic wall building materials or laid on sidewalks to continue generating electricity; silicon cells can be recycled into powder and used as heat dissipation materials. The precious metal silver contained in it can also be reused; the PVDF polyvinylidene fluoride in the back sheet can also be made into Teflon, so as to maximize the recycling value. Recycling photovoltaic panels has low cost and zero pollution, and recycled materials can also be made into new photovoltaic panels.

Applicable Raw Materials

Waste solar photovoltaic panels The main components of photovoltaic modules are aluminum frame, glass, cell, EVA film, and backplane. Among them, the main component of glass is silica, and the secondary components are soda ash, limestone, magnesium oxide, alumina, mirabilite, and carbon; EVA is mainly ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer; the core components of the battery are mainly monocrystalline silicon and Polysilicon; the main material of the frame is metal aluminum; the back plate is composed of two layers of PVF film and one layer of PET film. More than 95% of these materials can be recycled.

Final Products

Solar panel junction box, glass, aluminum frame, silicon powder, copper, EVA plastic, silver

Working Process

The recycling of photovoltaic modules typically involves four main steps:

Step 1: Disassemble the junction box and remove the aluminum frame using a machine.

Step 2: Remove the tempered glass.

Step 3: Crush the module and sort out silicon powder, copper powder, and plastic powder.

Step 4: Extract silver (99.99% purity) from the silicon powder through a precious metals refinery.

Machine Features

1. Adopt international advanced crushing and sorting technology to realize the reuse of solar panels.
2. The operation method is simple, the separation process is environmentally friendly and non-toxic, the separation efficiency is high and the cost is low, and it is easy to handle on a large scale.
3. Compact structure, reasonable layout, stable performance and low noise.
4. Long service life, low failure rate and low maintenance cost.
5. The efficiency of pulse dust removal equipment is as high as 99%, effectively suppressing dust volatilization, fully complying with the national environmental protection requirements “Comprehensive Emission Standard of Air Pollutants” GB16297-1996, without secondary pollution.
6. The waste photovoltaic panel recycling equipment adopts PLC to control the complete production line; uniform feeding and coordinated operation.

Technical Parameters

ModelGFB-500GFB-1000
Capacity300-500(kg/h)500-1000(kg/h)
Power185Kw380Kw
size25*7*5(m)25*25*6(m)
weight15(ton)25(ton)

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