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- Internship | Wafer recovery for recycling from laser-delaminated solar panels Locatie: Eindhoven Werken op afstand: On-site Opleidingsniveau: Master Uren per week: 32-40 hours/week Vacancy 1558 Internship | Wafer recovery for recycling from laser-delaminated solar panels Make your mark on our time.
Become an intern at TNO! About this position The topic is recycling of photovoltaic (PV) modules. A PV module is a stack made up of the PV material (as well as metallisation, connections etc), encapsulated with polymer or glass sheets on both sides. Since PV modules contain both valuable and toxic elements, developing efficient recycling processes is becoming absolutely essential in a context where the installed PV capacity is exponentially increasing and a very large amount of PV modules will reach their end of life in the very near future.
In this context, we have developed a very successful laser-based process that opens up the PV moule stack. The research will take place at TNO on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven What will be your role? The main focus of the assignment is on recovering the wafer pieces from the open stack (i.e., after glass and encapsulant delamination), to access the valuable silver and high purity silicon. For this, we are exploring different routes, both chemical and mechanical/physical. The details of the assignment...