Chinese PV manufacturer Trina Solar has unveiled what it claims is “the world’s first fully recycled” crystalline silicon module. The panel has an efficiency of 20.7% and a power of more than 645 W.
“The recycled PV module uses n-type TOPCon technology and has a gold design,” the company said in a statement. “[We] made the breakthrough with its innovative, self-developed recycling technology, using materials such as silicon, silver, aluminum frames and glass recovered from waste modules.”
The company said its innovative techniques include interlayer separation reagents, chemical etching technology and wet chemical silver extraction technology, but did not provide additional technical details.
Trina Solar has applied for 37 patents in the field of recycling PV modules.
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