Costs of controlling environmental emissions from the manufacture of silicon dendritic web photovoltaic cells
✍ Scribed by I. Wilenitz; V.M. Fthenakis; P.D. Moskowitz
- Book ID
- 103901686
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Weight
- 858 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0379-6787
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✦ Synopsis
Large-scale manufacturing of photovoltaic cells creates environmental emissions that may require controls to meet pollution-control regulations and protect public health. The control costs, if excessive, could limit the technology's commercial viability. In this study, control costs associated with a hypothetical 10 megawatt-peak (MWp) silicon dendritic web photovoltaic cells manufacturing plant are determined. The annual incremental environmental control costs, based on capital recovery over a ten-year plant life, are estimated to be 1.4 ¢ Wp -1 and 2.8 ¢ Wp -1 for integrated and disaggregated plant designs respectively. Capital costs ranged from 50-55% (integrated) and 36 -40% (disaggregated) of the estimated costs. Total control costs are small in comparison with current production costs for silicon photovoltaic devices (approximately $5 Wp-1), but will be of greater importance at projected production cost of $0.5 Wp -1 -$1.0 Wp -1. These conclusions are specific to the material and process options examined.