Comments on: Solar Cell Recycling: Is it Dangerous? http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/solar-cell-recycling-is-it-dangerous/ A blog about residential solar power, brought to you by CalFinder. Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:36:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Renee http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/solar-cell-recycling-is-it-dangerous/comment-page-1/#comment-5491 Renee Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:24:39 +0000 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/solar-cell-recycling-is-it-dangerous/#comment-5491 Hi Erik, Check out this post, and thanks for reading the blog! http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/qa-can-the-silicon-in-solar-panels-be-reused-to-make-new-solar-cells/ Hi Erik,

Check out this post, and thanks for reading the blog!

http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/qa-can-the-silicon-in-solar-panels-be-reused-to-make-new-solar-cells/

]]> By: Dan http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/solar-cell-recycling-is-it-dangerous/comment-page-1/#comment-3486 Dan Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:10:57 +0000 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/solar-cell-recycling-is-it-dangerous/#comment-3486 Hello Erik, Silicon wafers can be cleaned through a wet-chemical treatment process in which the wafers are carefully etched free of any soiling. Through this process they end up with pure silicon that can reenter the solar cell production process. As for the glass, I imagine that is recycled much as other glass products would be and then reused in any number of ways. Check out this SolarMaterial link for more info: http://www.solarmaterial.com/Recyclingprocess.2397.0.html?&L=1 Hope this helps! Hello Erik,

Silicon wafers can be cleaned through a wet-chemical treatment process in which the wafers are carefully etched free of any soiling. Through this process they end up with pure silicon that can reenter the solar cell production process. As for the glass, I imagine that is recycled much as other glass products would be and then reused in any number of ways.

Check out this SolarMaterial link for more info:

http://www.solarmaterial.com/Recyclingprocess.2397.0.html?&L=1

Hope this helps!

]]> By: Erik Hessenius http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/solar-cell-recycling-is-it-dangerous/comment-page-1/#comment-3428 Erik Hessenius Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:59:39 +0000 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/solar-information/solar-cell-recycling-is-it-dangerous/#comment-3428 First off, thank you so much for including the article concerning the recycling process of solar panels. I am doing some research, and I found ot quite helpful. However, it would be nice if the article elaborated on the uses of the recycled materials. Can the silicon be reused in additional new solar cells? If not (due to exhaustion of desirable properties), can it be used in the steel industry, like as the reactant used to remove undesirable oxygen in the liquid steel? How about the tempered glass; is that also exhausted of its usefulness? Can it be ground up to be added to new virgin material? ~ Answer not necessarily needed soon, but desirable if possible. Also, it would be very nice if someone could either A) e-mail me the article/results in question; or B) send me an e-mail in notification of the revised article and its website location. (I'm sorry if you already know this due to the 'Leave a Reply' requirements, but I can be contacted at erik.hess@live.com) First off, thank you so much for including the article concerning the recycling process of solar panels. I am doing some research, and I found ot quite helpful. However, it would be nice if the article elaborated on the uses of the recycled materials. Can the silicon be reused in additional new solar cells? If not (due to exhaustion of desirable properties), can it be used in the steel industry, like as the reactant used to remove undesirable oxygen in the liquid steel? How about the tempered glass; is that also exhausted of its usefulness? Can it be ground up to be added to new virgin material? ~ Answer not necessarily needed soon, but desirable if possible. Also, it would be very nice if someone could either A) e-mail me the article/results in question; or B) send me an e-mail in notification of the revised article and its website location. (I’m sorry if you already know this due to the ‘Leave a Reply’ requirements, but I can be contacted at erik.hess@live.com)

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