Economic Feasibility for Recycling of Waste Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules

Table 1

Input values [20, 22].

Acronym	Variable	Value
	Unitary collection cost	210 €/ton
	Unitary conferred materials cost	90 €/ton
	Unitary investment cost	270 €/ton
	Unitary process cost	320 €/ton
	Unitary taxes cost	36%
	Rate of inflation	2%
	Mass/module of conferred material	128 kg/ton plastics
	Mass/module of recycled material	175 kg/ton Al; 10 kg/ton Cu; 29 kg/ton Si; 658 kg/ton glass
	Lifetime of investment	10 y
	Period of loan	10 y
	Purity level of recycled material	100%
	Price of recycled material	1.6 €/kg Al; 4.9 €/kg Cu; 1.4 €/kg Si; 0.1 €/kg glass
	Opportunity cost of capital	5%
	Interest rate on a loan	3%
	Size	2000 tons
	Yield of recycled material	100% Al; 78% Cu; 85% Si; 97% glass

Materials composition in 1 ton of crystalline Si PV modules: 17.5% Al, 65.8% glass, 2.9% Si, 1% Cu, and 12.8% plastics.