Environmental impacts of crystalline silicon photovoltaic module production

Proceedings of the 13th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 103-108

  Alsema, Erik A ^a   de Wild Scholten, Mariska J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Energy Pay Back Time; Life Cycle Assessment; Photovoltaic systems; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MANUFACTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CRYSTALLINE SILICON MODULES; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; ENERGY PAY BACK TIME; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY DATUM; MONOCRYSTALLINE WAFERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 79952475574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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