Are waste solar panels worth recycling?

With the popularization and development of photovoltaic power generation, the number of waste photovoltaic panels is also increasing. Then is it worth recycling waste photovoltaic panels? Of course yes.

Photovoltaic panels

Here we list two aspects of benefits of recycling waste photovoltaic panels:

1. Economic Benefits

According to the International Energy Agency's forecast, the number of waste photovoltaic panels may reach 20 million tons by 2030, which provides a huge market space for the recycling and processing industry of waste photovoltaic panels at a cheap price.

By recycling cheap waste photovoltaic panels, we can separate Aluminum frames, tempered glass, crystalline silicon cells, backplanes, EVA encapsulation films and other materials in photovoltaic panels have high recycling value.

Solar panel recycling value

2. Environmental Benefits

Most of the materials used in photovoltaic panels are important metal and rare resources, such as aluminum, silver and silicon, etc. The mining and utilization of these resources have certain costs and energy consumption. By recycling waste solar panels, the reusable materials in them can be extracted and reused, avoiding the mining of new resources, reducing waste pollution, energy consumption and resources wastes, and realizing the recycling of resources.

Then how to recycle waste solar panels effectively and create higher recycling profits?

After years of research, DOING has designed a machine specifically for processing waste solar photovoltaic panels-solar panel recycling machines. The working principle of the solar panel recycling machine is mainly to separate valuable materials such as copper, silicon, aluminum, glass, etc. from the solar panels through physical means such as disassembly, crushing, and sorting.

Solar panel recycling machine

The recycling process of the DOING solar panel recycling machine is divided into three steps: first, the back panel, wires, and aluminum frames are removed by machine or manually; second, the entire component is crushed with a crusher to remove the tempered glass; third, the remaining panels are crushed and ground to separate the metal and silicon. The equipment adopts fully automatic loading, saving time and labor costs. The whole line is connected to the pulse dust collector for centralized dust collection, and the gas is subjected to carbon dioxide adsorption and spray purification, which is efficient, environmentally friendly and pollution-free.

Solar panel recycling machine

As a professional manufacturer of waste recycling machinery, Henan DOING can provide a series of services from program formulation, equipment configuration, supply and installation of solar panel recycling machines according to your needs. If you have any questions or need more detailed information, please feel free to contact us.