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Recycling materials from green energy technologies (Signal)
The percentage relates to the amount recycled or prepared for reuse out of the amount of solar photovoltaic panel waste collected.
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Numerous technical challenges exist around recycling materials from renewable energy technologies — such as in separating and recycling composite materials. Some initiatives and projects across the EU are already trying to address these challenges. For example, Blades2Build is developing solutions for recycling wind turbine blades, with the aim of decreasing the disposal of blades in EU landfill by 90% come 2030. ReProSolar, a five-year project launched in 2021, is exploring methods to recover all solar panel elements at an industrial scale. Other examples include <anchor>Photorama</anchor>, a project investigating technologies to improve the recycling of PVs and the recovery of secondary raw materials; and Icarus, which is working towards achieving higher rates of silicon recycling from solar PVs.
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# PHOtovoltaic waste management – advanced Technologies for recOvery and recycling of secondary RAw MAterials from end-of-life modules

Fact Sheet

Project Information

PHOTORAMA

Grant agreement ID:
958223

EC signature date
7 May 2021

Start date
1 May 2021

End date
30 April 2025

Funded under

- SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost
€
10 365 764,75

EU contribution
€ 8 381 666,38

8 381 666,38

1 984 098,37

Coordinated by

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES

France

## Project description

### A new perspective for recycling photovoltaics

Waste from electrical and electronic equipment such as fridges and mobile phones are one of the fastest growing waste streams. In Europe, there is a significant increase in waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) for recent technologies such as photovoltaic (PV) devices. These products are designed as complex sandwiches, making the recovery of the critical and precious raw materials encapsulated in the layers extremely challenging. The EU-funded PHOTORAMA project will draw up a profitable and sustainable circular value chain that will lead to a carbon neutral PV industry. Specifically, it will develop and demonstrate the industrial prospect for recovering and recycling desirable materials and components from end-of-life PV panels.

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## Objective

Since the last decades, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) have been drastically increasing in Europe, particularly for recent technologies such as Photovoltaic (PV) devices. These products are designed as complex sandwiches, which make the recovery of the critical (Si, In, Ga) and precious (Ag) raw materials encapsulated in the layers extremely challenging.

The overall objective of PHOTORAMA is to draw up a profitable and sustainable circular value chain that will lead to a carbon neutral PV industry. PHOTORAMA will develop and demonstrate the industrial prospective of recycling solutions to recover and recycle all the materials ‘components from End-of-life PV panels. A complementary consortium of 13 European companies and research institutes has built the framework of PHOTORAMA as follow:

(1) the development of innovative processes and technologies from TRL4-5 to TRL7 to establish a sound recycling scheme to increase significantly resource efficiency with decisive cost-cutting solutions. The implementation of automated disassembly and sandwich opening as layer separation (MONDRAGON, DFD, CEA) enabling high-recovery (> 95%) of secondary raw materials: Ag, Si (SINTEF, CEA, IDENER) and In, Ga (LUXCHEMTECH) from EoL PV panels (crystalline silicon, thin films),

(2) the full-circularity approach emphasised from collection (SOREN) to marketable new products from Si, In, Ga, Ag (RHP), glass (MALTHA) mainly for PV manufacturing (EGP),

(3) the demonstration of the business viability and attractiveness of its technological solutions (BIFA, ENEA) as one of the most competitive perspective for PV recycling.

PHOTORAMA will strengthen this ambitious model with environmental impacts assessments and a strategic dissemination and exploitation plan supported by a strong effort for raising societal awareness (ZSI). The implementation of PHOTORAMA recycling scheme would unlock already more than 100,000 tons of valuable secondary raw materials by 2030.

### Fields of science

### Keywords

- [End-of-life Photovoltaic module](/search/en?q=/project/keywords="End-of-life Photovoltaic module")
- [critical raw materials](/search/en?q=/project/keywords=" critical raw materials")
- [secondary raw materials](/search/en?q=/project/keywords=" secondary raw materials")
- [innovative recovery](/search/en?q=/project/keywords=" innovative recovery")

### Programme(s)

### Topic(s)

### Call for proposal

[See other projects for this call](/search/en?q=contenttype='project' AND /project/relations/associations/relatedMasterCall/call/identifier='H2020-LOW-CARBON-CIRCULAR-INDUSTRIES-2020'&p=1&num=10&srt=Relevance:decreasing)

### Sub call

H2020-LCCI-2020-EASME-twostage

### Funding Scheme

### Coordinator

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES

Net EU contribution

€ 1 532 341,00

Address

RUE LEBLANC 25

75015 PARIS 15

France

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Region

Ile-de-France

Ile-de-France

Paris

Activity type

Research Organisations

Links

Total cost

€ 1 532 341,00

### Participants (14)

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ENEL GREEN POWER SPA

Italy

Net EU contribution

€ 349 518,75

Address

VIALE REGINA MARGHERITA 125

00198 Roma

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Region

Centro (IT)

Lazio

Roma

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 1 003 687,50

Third-party

Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.

3SUN S.R.L.

Italy

Net EU contribution

€ 353 062,50

Address

CONTRADA BLOCCO TORRAZZE SNC

95121 Catania

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Region

Isole

Sicilia

Catania

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

No data

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA

Spain

Net EU contribution

€ 110 250,00

Address

POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL BAINETXE 5A

20550 Aretxabaleta

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Region

Noreste

País Vasco

Gipuzkoa

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 1 688 125,00

Third-party

Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.

MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY SA

France

Net EU contribution

€ 1 071 437,50

Address

Parc d'Activité Les Pradines, 1376 ROUTE DE LYON

84100 Orange

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Region

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

Vaucluse

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

No data

SOREN

France

Net EU contribution

€ 153 753,25

Address

13 RUE DU QUATRE-SEPTEMBRE

75002 Paris

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes

Region

Ile-de-France

Ile-de-France

Paris

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 219 647,50

RHP TECHNOLOGY GMBH

Austria

Net EU contribution

€ 375 987,50

Address

FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM SEIBERSDORF GEBAUDE CA

2444 Seibersdorf An Der Leitha

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes

Region

Ostösterreich

Niederösterreich

Wiener Umland/Südteil

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 537 125,00

LUXCHEMTECH GMBH

Germany

Net EU contribution

€ 1 211 980,88

Address

ALFRED LANGE STRASSE 18

09599 Freiberg

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes

Region

Sachsen

Chemnitz

Mittelsachsen

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 1 731 401,25

MALTHA GLASRECYCLAGE BELGIE

Belgium

Net EU contribution

€ 232 032,50

Address

FABRIEKSSTRAAT 114

3920 Lommel

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Region

Vlaams Gewest

Prov. Limburg (BE)

Arr. Maaseik

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 331 475,00

SINTEF AS

Norway

Net EU contribution

€ 588 816,25

Address

STRINDVEGEN 4

7034 Trondheim

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Region

Norge

Trøndelag

Trøndelag

Activity type

Research Organisations

Links

Total cost

€ 588 816,25

AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE

Italy

Net EU contribution

€ 400 133,75

Address

LUNGOTEVERE GRANDE AMMIRAGLIO THAON DI REVEL 76

00196 Roma

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Region

Centro (IT)

Lazio

Roma

Activity type

Research Organisations

Links

Total cost

€ 400 133,75

DFD - DENSE FLUID DEGREASING

Participation ended

France

Net EU contribution

€ 771 540,00

Address

149 AVENUE DU BREZET

63100 Clermont-Ferrand

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes

Region

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne

Puy-de-Dôme

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 1 102 200,00

IDENER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AGRUPACION DE INTERES ECONOMICO

Spain

Net EU contribution

€ 423 437,50

Address

CALLE EARLY OVINGTON 24-8

41300 LA RINCONADA SEVILLA

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Region

Sur

Andalucía

Sevilla

Activity type

Research Organisations

Links

Total cost

€ 423 437,50

BIFA UMWELTINSTITUT GMBH

Germany

Net EU contribution

€ 418 250,00

Address

AM MITTLEREN MOOS 46

86167 Augsburg

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Region

Bayern

Schwaben

Augsburg, Kreisfreie Stadt

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Links

Total cost

€ 418 250,00

ZENTRUM FUR SOZIALE INNOVATION GMBH

Austria

Net EU contribution

€ 389 125,00

Address

LINKE WIENZEILE 246

1150 Wien

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Region

Ostösterreich

Wien

Wien

Activity type

Research Organisations

Links

Total cost

€ 389 125,00

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