TY - GEN
T1 - Quantifying Energy flows in PV Circularity Processes
AU - Mirletz, Heather M.
AU - Ovaitt, Silvana
AU - Gaulding, Ashley
AU - Sridhar, Seetharaman
AU - Barnes, Teresa
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was authored [in part] by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - As sustainable deployment and end-of-life management become a hot topic to timely address in the PV community, a dynamic comparative evaluation of the benefits of circular pathways such as reuse, and remanufacturing, recycling has not been performed holistically beyond material flows or LCA analysis. Energy flows are critical for evaluating energy generation technologies. Previously they have been used to compare renewables to fossil generation and then between PV technologies. This paper quantifies energy flows to evaluate circular pathways for PV. The energy flows tracking manufacturing, generation, and losses complementary to the mass flows of silicon are quantified leveraging the PV ICE framework.
AB - As sustainable deployment and end-of-life management become a hot topic to timely address in the PV community, a dynamic comparative evaluation of the benefits of circular pathways such as reuse, and remanufacturing, recycling has not been performed holistically beyond material flows or LCA analysis. Energy flows are critical for evaluating energy generation technologies. Previously they have been used to compare renewables to fossil generation and then between PV technologies. This paper quantifies energy flows to evaluate circular pathways for PV. The energy flows tracking manufacturing, generation, and losses complementary to the mass flows of silicon are quantified leveraging the PV ICE framework.
KW - circular economy
KW - energy flows
KW - energy return on investment (EROI)
KW - photovoltaics
KW - recycle
KW - remanufacture
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U2 - 10.1109/PVSC48317.2022.9938594
DO - 10.1109/PVSC48317.2022.9938594
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85142803284
T3 - Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
SP - 299
EP - 301
BT - 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, PVSC 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 49th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, PVSC 2022
Y2 - 5 June 2022 through 10 June 2022
ER -