Paper Title
Industrial Perspective of PV Module Recycling

Abstract
The exponential growth of photovoltaics technology, had leads to an increase of the number of end-of-life (EOL) or defective PV modules, mainly of crystalline silicon PV modules. This has garnered significant industry interest in both economic (profitability of the PV recycling business) and environmental aspects (reducing the waste generated for landfill or combustion upon disposal by recovering the material to be reused). PV Cycle, the European voluntary PV recycling initiative, is selected as a reference for the business feasibility study as they are the largest PV module recycling body in the world. As of today, the materials recycled are aluminium frame, copper cables and glass content of PV modules. Valuable materials like silver and silicon in the PV modules are discarded. As such, the purpose of the study is to evaluate and improve the existing PV cells and modules recycling methods to recover all the valuable material in the cell (with the exceptional of the anti-reflective layer) and to conduct a financial assessment using break point analysis on the profitability of running a PV module recycling business in Singapore.