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[[Category:Industrial ecology]]
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[[Category:Manufacturing]]
[[Category:Manufacturing]]
[[Category:Photovoltaic]]
[[Category:Photovoltaics]]

Revision as of 14:39, 3 June 2011

Abstract

In order to alleviate production costs and increase the environmental performance of solar photovoltaic(PV) manufacturing, an eco-industrial park for GW-scale production of PV is proposed. This article quantifies the inputs and outputs for the glass manufacturing component of such a system using standard manufacturing techniques. Utilizing industrial symbiosis in this way, potential reductions for such a plant were found to be about 30,000 tons/year in raw materials and over 220,000 GJ/year in embodied energy.

Pv-is-glass.pngSchematic diagram of Industrial symbiosis in photovoltaic manufacturing. The highlighted red area is the industries studied in this project.

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