Life cycle inventory analysis of the production of metals used in photovoltaics

By Vasilis Fthenakis, Wenming Wang, Hyung Chul Kim. 2009

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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In Environmental Engineering

1. Hyung Chul Kim
2. Vasilis Fthenakis
3. Gara Villalba
4. C. Licht
5. L. T. Peiró
6. R. García‐Valverde
7. A. Urbina

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. S. Jowitt
2. G. Mudd
3. T. Werner
4. Gara Villalba
5. C. Licht
6. L. T. Peiró

In Mechanical Engineering

1. T. Werner
2. G. Mudd
3. S. Jowitt
4. Gara Villalba
5. C. Licht
6. L. T. Peiró
7. Vasilis Fthenakis
8. Hyung Chul Kim

Citations in the corpus

• The world's by-product and critical metal resources part III: A global assessment of indium (2017, background): “…al., 2013), its anthropogenic stocks and flows (e.g. Licht et al., 2015; White and Hemond, 2012; Yoshimura et al., 2013), its life-cycle impacts (e.g. Fthenakis et al., 2009; Marwede and Reller, 2014), its processing and recoverability from wastes (e.g. Alfantazi and Moskalyk, 2003; Li et al.,…”
• Global Substance Flow Analysis of Gallium, Germanium, and Indium: Quantification of Extraction, Uses, and Dissipative Losses within their Anthropogenic Cycles (2015, background): “In concentration of Zn, residue is low (0.2% In) (Fthenakis et al. 2009), but it has been reported that China started treating their stockpiled Zn residues to obtain In (Phipps et al. 2008).”
• Photovoltaics: Life-cycle Analyses (2011, background): “These impacts reflect the fossil-fuel-based energy used in producing the materials for solar cells, modules, and systems; however, the data used in these studies were outdated Nomenclature a-Si amorphous silicon AC alternate current BOS balance of system c-Si crystalline silicon CdS cadmium sulfide ”
• Life cycle analysis of organic photovoltaic technologies (2010, background): “From an environmental point of view, as it emerges from all LCA assessments of electricity production from different energy systems, photovoltaic technologies, with a range of 21–37 g of CO2 eq. emissions per kWh of produced energy for an average southern European isolation have a clear advantage ov”