Pravas at Solar & Storage Exhibition NEC 2024
Pravas Sustainable Technologies Ltd attended the Solar & Storage Exhibition at NEC Birmingham, most open-minded and exciting renewable energy exhibition of the year.
The event attracted a large national and international audience from installers, commercial and industrial users, property and land owners, and utility companies with over 500 exhibitors and over 150 000 visitors.
Visitors had the opportunity to listen over 250 speakers developing on solar and storage case studies and product demonstrations from manufacturers, installers, property owners, and landowners.
The free-to-attend networking events offered the opportunity to connect with thousands of industry leaders, experts, and enthusiasts for exchanging insights, building valuable connections, and partnering with the industry’s top figures.
This was a great experience for Pravas Sustainable Technologies Ltd, which offered a new view on the solar industry technological progression and efficient solar panels recycling solutions.
Our Solar Panels Recycling Facility
We can proudly announce that Pravas Sustainable Technologies Ltd has started its Worcester Solar Panels Recycling Facility. Our recycling equipment allows for the recovery of an astonishing 95% of the raw materials which can be reused by other industries to manufacture new products.
The Recycling Process
The recycling process of solar panels involves several steps:
1. Collection: Panels are collected from different sources like decommissioned solar farms, industrial sites or residential facilities.
2. Disassembly: The aluminium frames and junction boxes are removed by the frame removal machine.
3. Thermal Processing: In the next step the solar panels are heated to facilitate the removal of the glass, silicon, and other materials.
4. Mechanical Separation: After the heating, the panel is going through the glass crasher where the glass is mechanically separated. The glass can be recycled for use in new panels or other products. After the glass is removed, the panels are shredded into small particles and go into several types of materials separators like screen separator, air separator and electrostatic separator where such materials like silicon, copper and plastic are separated.
5. Chemical Processing: For certain materials, particularly silicon and silver, further chemical processing may be required to refine the material to a purity level suitable for reuse in new solar cells .
In the UK there were limited large-scale solar panels recycling facilities necessary to handle the expected increase in end-of-life panels. As a result, most of the out of service solar panels have been sent for recycling work to other European countries. The lack of solar panels recycling infrastructure in the UK resulted in only 10% of solar panels being recycled with the rest being disposed of in landfills.
After starting our recycling facility, we hope to facilitate the solar panels recycling process in the UK and close the gap in the necessary recycling infrastructure.
As solar energy grows, the importance of recycling solar panels grows to ensure eco-friendly solar energy practices that minimise solar panel waste. We offer bespoke solar panels recycling solutions to ensure the solar energy industry is moving towards a more sustainable approach, where old panels are not just discarded but turned into resources for new ones.
Contact us for bespoke solar panels recycling solutions.
