| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 122, 2019
2019 The 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environment Engineering (REEE 2019)
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| Article Number | 02005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Solar Energy Utilization and Photovoltaic System | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201912202005 | |
| Published online | 14 October 2019 | |
Using Life Cycle Assessment to Determine the Environmental Impacts Caused by Solar Photovoltaic Systems
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology,
Auckland,
New Zealand
* Corresponding author: anushka.pal@aut.ac.nz
The paper presents research that investigated the Life Cycle Assessment of multi-crystalline photovoltaic (PV) panels, by considering environmental impacts of the entire life cycle for any solar PVsystems. The overall manufacturing process of a solar PV panel ranging from silica extraction, crystalline silicon ingot growth, wavering to module fabrication and packing of the solar PV panel. The results from this research showed that the module assembly and cell processing of the manufacturing process contributed towards the main environmental impacts of the life cycle of solar PV systems.
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