@inbook{1438b5cf768c41db971a933ec03d4112,
title = "Identifying issues in assessing environmental implications of solar PVs-related waste",
abstract = "Hazardous elements like lead, cadmium are growingly being used in solar photovoltaics (PV). The major distress is the risk related to the potential release of these constituents in the environment. This paper reviews the leaching behaviour of various metallic constituents in soil and water, and compiles the latest literature on PVs. The analysis shows that there is substantial release of various metallic components in the environment and exist data gaps in (1) lack of information for solar PV disposal, (2) standardized leaching tests representing actual landfill conditions (e.g. studies with actual landfill waste and leachate), (3) Life Cycle Inventories from cradle to grave, (4) kinetics data for metal leaching, and (5) PV wastewater characterization. These identified data gaps need to be filled by conducting more research in this direction, so that exposure to toxic metals can be estimated with more confidence and efforts for protecting them can be made.",
keywords = "End of life, Leaching, Metal, Photovoltaic, Solar panel, Toxic",
author = "Preeti Nain and Arun Kumar",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-15-0990-2_7",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "71--90",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering",
}
