Life Cycle Review of Scalable Perovskite Solar Cell Pathways
- Columbia University
This paper presents estimations of life-cycle energy burden and potential environmental and health impacts of emerging scalable single-junction and tandem perovskite solar cells (PSC). Life cycle analysis (LCA) is the primary framework for assessing potential environmental impacts of new technologies, such as perovskites, and we expect that it would be used to guide improvements in industrial production in order to reduce life-cycle energy burden and environmental and health impacts. Thus, we identified the most promising single-junction and tandem PSC architectures, developing life-cycle inventories (LCIs) that include only materials and energy processes that can be scaled up from the lab- to industrial-scale production. Subsequently, LCA is applied to characterize, quantify and compare the resulting life-cycle impacts and comparisons are made with previously published results.
- Research Organization:
- Columbia U
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0008543
- OSTI ID:
- 1747005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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