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Environmental Life Cycle Inventory of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Module Production
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ECN
Solar Energy
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1-1-2006
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ECN-RX--06-005
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Conference Paper
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14
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Presented at: Materials Research Society Fall 2005 Meeting, Boston, USA, 28 november 2005-2 december 2005.
Abstract:
Together with 11 European and US photovoltaic companies an extensive
effort has been made to collect Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data that
represents the status of production technology for crystalline silicon
modules for the year 2004. These data can be used to evaluate the environmental
impacts of photovoltaic solar energy systems. The new data covers all
processes from silicon feedstock production via wafer- and cell- to
module manufacturing. All commercial wafer technologies are covered,
i.e multi- and monocrystalline wafers as well as ribbon technologies.
For monocrystalline silicon wafer production further improvement of
the data quality is recommended.
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