CN113564361A - Pyrogenic treatment and recovery process of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cell - Google Patents

Pyrogenic treatment and recovery process of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cell Download PDF

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CN113564361A
CN113564361A CN202110547253.0A CN202110547253A CN113564361A CN 113564361 A CN113564361 A CN 113564361A CN 202110547253 A CN202110547253 A CN 202110547253A CN 113564361 A CN113564361 A CN 113564361A
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Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of valuable metal recovery of thin film photovoltaic materials, in particular to a pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell, which comprises the following steps: (1) stripping back plate glass of the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell in a mechanical knocking mode, directly recovering the back plate glass, and crushing the front glass and the EVA thin film into small pieces; (2) placing the crushed front glass and the EVA film in a roasting furnace for oxidizing roasting; (3) and recycling tellurium and cadmium entering the flue gas in the forms of tellurium oxide and cadmium oxide by using flue gas dust collection equipment. The method has the advantages of high recovery rate of valuable metals, short process flow, little environmental pollution, simple operation and the like.

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Pyrogenic treatment and recovery process of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cell
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of valuable metal recovery of thin film photovoltaic materials, in particular to a pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell.
Background
With the exhaustion of conventional energy and the increase of environmental pollution, renewable energy is a focus of global attention. The photovoltaic power generation is a technology for directly converting light energy into electric energy by utilizing the photovoltaic effect of a semiconductor interface, and has the advantages of no need of fuel consumption, short construction period, cleanness, safety and the like. In recent years, photovoltaic power generation has been rapidly developed.
At present, cadmium telluride thin film solar cell materials are widely applied to the photovoltaic market, and with the rapid increase of the photovoltaic loading machine amount, the number of scrapped photovoltaic panels is increased rapidly and the scrapping period is in a dense period. The rare and dispersed metal tellurium and heavy metal cadmium contained in the cadmium telluride thin-film solar cell have the problems of few primary resources, high mining difficulty and the like, and can cause serious pollution when flowing into the nature. Therefore, the method has important economic and social significance for recycling tellurium and cadmium in the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell material.
At present, the method for recovering tellurium and cadmium from waste cadmium telluride thin film solar cells mainly comprises a gas phase method and a liquid phase method, wherein the gas phase method has higher operating conditions, and the equipment investment and the operating cost of the whole system are higher; the liquid phase method has relatively simple process flow, but has poor working conditions and produces cadmium-containing wastewater, which causes great environmental protection pressure.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above disadvantages and shortcomings of the prior art, the present invention provides a pyrometallurgical recovery process for cadmium telluride thin film solar cells.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the main technical scheme that:
the invention provides a pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell, which comprises the following steps:
(1) stripping back plate glass of the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell in a mechanical knocking mode, directly recovering the back plate glass, and crushing the front glass and the EVA thin film into small pieces;
(2) placing the crushed front glass and the EVA film in a roasting furnace for oxidizing roasting;
(3) and recycling tellurium and cadmium entering the flue gas in the forms of tellurium oxide and cadmium oxide by using flue gas dust collection equipment.
Further, in the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell: the tellurium content is 920-1020 ppm, and the cadmium content is 420-500 ppm.
Further, in the step (1), the front glass and the EVA film are crushed into small pieces with the particle size of 2-4 cm.
Further, in the step (2), a roasting furnace used for roasting is electrically heated, the roasting temperature is 700-800 ℃, and the roasting time is 1-1.5 hours.
Furthermore, the atmosphere in the roasting furnace is an oxidizing atmosphere, and the furnace chamber ensures that the micro negative pressure is-15 to-5 Pa.
Further, in the step (2), the tellurium content in the roasted waste slag is lower than 60ppm, and the cadmium content is lower than 50 ppm.
Further, in the step (3), the process for recovering tellurium and cadmium in the smoke dust adopts the processes of gravity settling, cyclone dust collection and cloth bag dust collection.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the process has high recovery rate of tellurium and cadmium, the recovery rate of tellurium reaches 94.06%, and the recovery rate of cadmium reaches 89.60%.
2. The process flow is simple, the investment of process equipment is relatively low, the flue gas after tellurium and cadmium are recovered reaches the standard and is discharged, and the environmental protection pressure is low.
3. The method has the advantages of high recovery rate of valuable metals, short process flow, little environmental pollution, simple operation and the like.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic process flow diagram of a pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell of the present invention.
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For the purpose of better explaining the present invention and to facilitate understanding, the present invention will be described in detail by way of specific embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
According to the invention, the back plate glass of the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell is peeled in a mechanical knocking mode, the front glass substrate and the EVA thin film after the back plate is peeled are crushed into pieces with the size of 2-4 cm, the pieces are added into a roasting furnace for oxidizing roasting at 700-800 ℃, and tellurium and cadmium entering smoke in the form of tellurium oxide and cadmium oxide are recovered by smoke dust collection equipment. Finally, the recovery rate of tellurium reaches 94.06%, and the recovery rate of cadmium reaches 89.60%.
Example 1:
referring to fig. 1, the invention provides a pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell. In a treatable cadmium telluride thin film solar cell: the tellurium content was 960ppm and the cadmium content was 438 ppm.
The process comprises the following steps:
(1) the back plate glass is peeled off from the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell in a mechanical knocking mode, the back plate glass is directly recycled, and the front glass and the EVA thin film are crushed into small blocks with the particle size of 2 cm.
(2) Placing the crushed front glass and the EVA film in a roasting furnace for oxidizing roasting; the roasting furnace used for roasting adopts electric heating, the roasting temperature is 700 ℃, and the roasting time is 1 h. The atmosphere in the roasting furnace is an oxidizing atmosphere, and the hearth ensures the micro negative pressure of-15 Pa; the tellurium content in the roasted waste slag is 58ppm, and the cadmium content in the roasted waste slag is 47 ppm.
(3) And recycling tellurium and cadmium entering the flue gas in the forms of tellurium oxide and cadmium oxide by using flue gas dust collection equipment. The process for recovering tellurium and cadmium in the smoke dust adopts the processes of gravity settling, cyclone dust collection and cloth bag dust collection.
In the embodiment, the tellurium recovery rate reaches 93.96%, and the cadmium recovery rate reaches 89.27%.
Example 2:
referring to fig. 1, the invention provides a pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell. In a treatable cadmium telluride thin film solar cell: the tellurium content was 938ppm and the cadmium content was 425 ppm.
The process comprises the following steps:
(1) the back plate glass is peeled off from the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell in a mechanical knocking mode, the back plate glass is directly recycled, and the front glass and the EVA thin film are crushed into small blocks with the grain size of 4 cm.
(2) Placing the crushed front glass and the EVA film in a roasting furnace for oxidizing roasting; the roasting furnace used for roasting adopts electric heating, the roasting temperature is 800 ℃, and the roasting time is 1.5 h. The atmosphere in the roasting furnace is an oxidizing atmosphere, and the hearth ensures micro negative pressure of-5 Pa; the tellurium content in the roasted waste slag is 59ppm, and the cadmium content in the roasted waste slag is 48 ppm.
(3) And recycling tellurium and cadmium entering the flue gas in the forms of tellurium oxide and cadmium oxide by using flue gas dust collection equipment. The process for recovering tellurium and cadmium in the smoke dust adopts the processes of gravity settling, cyclone dust collection and cloth bag dust collection.
In the embodiment, the tellurium recovery rate reaches 93.71 percent, and the cadmium recovery rate reaches 88.71 percent.
Example 3:
referring to fig. 1, the invention provides a pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell. In a treatable cadmium telluride thin film solar cell: the tellurium content was 1010ppm and the cadmium content was 480 ppm.
The process comprises the following steps:
(1) the back plate glass is peeled off from the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell in a mechanical knocking mode, the back plate glass is directly recycled, and the front glass and the EVA thin film are crushed into small blocks with the grain size of 3 cm.
(2) Placing the crushed front glass and the EVA film in a roasting furnace for oxidizing roasting; the roasting furnace used for roasting adopts electric heating, the roasting temperature is 750 ℃, and the roasting time is 1.2 h. The atmosphere in the roasting furnace is an oxidizing atmosphere, and the hearth ensures the micro negative pressure of-10 Pa; the tellurium content in the roasted waste slag is 60ppm, and the cadmium content in the roasted waste slag is 50 ppm.
(3) And recycling tellurium and cadmium entering the flue gas in the forms of tellurium oxide and cadmium oxide by using flue gas dust collection equipment. The process for recovering tellurium and cadmium in the smoke dust adopts the processes of gravity settling, cyclone dust collection and cloth bag dust collection.
In the embodiment, the tellurium recovery rate reaches 94.06%, and the cadmium recovery rate reaches 89.60%.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it should be understood that the above embodiments are illustrative and not restrictive, and that those skilled in the art may make changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations to the above embodiments without departing from the scope of the present invention.

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1. A pyrogenic process treatment and recovery process of a cadmium telluride thin film solar cell is characterized in that: the method comprises the following steps:
(1) stripping back plate glass of the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell in a mechanical knocking mode, directly recovering the back plate glass, and crushing the front glass and the EVA thin film into small pieces;
(2) placing the crushed front glass and the EVA film in a roasting furnace for oxidizing roasting;
(3) and recycling tellurium and cadmium entering the flue gas in the forms of tellurium oxide and cadmium oxide by using flue gas dust collection equipment.
2. The pyrometallurgical recovery process of cadmium telluride thin film solar cells as in claim 1, wherein: in the cadmium telluride thin film solar cell: the tellurium content is 920-1020 ppm, and the cadmium content is 450-500 ppm.
3. The pyrometallurgical recovery process of cadmium telluride thin film solar cells as in claim 1, wherein: in the step (1), the front glass and the EVA film are crushed into small pieces with the particle size of 2-4 cm.
4. The pyrometallurgical recovery process of cadmium telluride thin film solar cells as in claim 1, wherein: in the step (2), a roasting furnace used for roasting is electrically heated, the roasting temperature is 700-800 ℃, and the roasting time is 1-1.5 h.
5. The pyrometallurgical recovery process of cadmium telluride thin film solar cells as in claim 4 wherein: the atmosphere in the roasting furnace is an oxidizing atmosphere, and the furnace chamber ensures the micro negative pressure of-15 to-5 Pa.
6. The pyrometallurgical recovery process of cadmium telluride thin film solar cells as in claim 1, wherein: in the step (2), the tellurium content in the roasted waste slag is lower than 60ppm, and the cadmium content is lower than 50 ppm.
7. The pyrometallurgical recovery process of cadmium telluride thin film solar cells as in claim 1, wherein: in the step (3), the process for recovering tellurium and cadmium in the smoke dust adopts the processes of gravity settling, cyclone dust collection and bag dust collection.
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