2 European Projects Found
Searched on 125080 European Projects
FINISHED
Process and automated pilot plant for simultaneous and integral recycling of different kinds of photovoltaic panels (PHOTOLIFE)
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
Background
The major environmental risks associated with photovoltaic panels, if not properly disposed of at the end of their life, are pollution by heavy metals (lead and cadmium), loss of conventional resources (aluminium, glass and silicon), and the loss of rare and precious metals (silver, indium, gallium and germanium).
Current volumes of photovolta ...
Read Project
4
Partners Participants
FINISHED
Innovative Hydrometallurgical Processes to recover Metals from WEEE including lamps and batteries - Demonstration (HYDROWEEE DEMO)
Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,
The recycling business is traditionally dominated by SMEs. In the last 5 years a general trend in the electronics recycling sector to bigger companies is very visible. Multinational, multi-sector companies are buying several smaller recyclers every year.Hence the previous project HydroWEEE (03/2009–02/2012) dealt with the recovery of rare and precious metals from WEEE. The idea has been to develop ...
Read Project
