COVERSTORY
Energy use in the manufacturing jungle
The global push for cleaner energy production seems to be caught in a never ending discussion whether renewable energies, and especially solar, are really green technologies. Dr. Guy Davies, Director Business Unit Gas Abatement and Daniela Georgi, Director Marketing at DAS Environmental highlight the company’s 20 year experience and discuss how energy consumption in the production, recycling and efficiency are key points when looking at process improvements.
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manufacturing requires the use of some elements that are also the target of other renewable efforts. The gases used in PV manufacturing are essential to the manufacturing process but come with challenges of their own.
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The European Parliament and European Council have set a number of regulations on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases and the reduction of PFC (perfluorinated compounds) is a key area that industries are being asked to comply with as PFCs have an extremely high global warming potential. While these gases can be replaced in certain industries, they remain essential in photovoltaic production lines and so abatement tools became even more important for the greening of the industry. Not only for the ongoing process development but also to increase public awareness of the constant need for innovation in the area of emission reductions.
Although every region has its own emission regulations there is a slow move to standardisation. In Europe, for example, compliance with the German TA-Luft regulations (Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control) has become the standard emissions regulation for most of region.
t is an irony that the material requirement to create cleaner energy through PV
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