Polymer Industrial Floors - The Possibility of Using Secondary Raw Materials from Solar Panels

The paper reports on the subject of recycling and
further use of secondary raw materials obtained from solar panels,
which is becoming a very up to date topic in recent years. Recycling
these panels is very difficult and complex, and the use of resulting
secondary raw materials is still not fully resolved. Within the
research carried out at the Brno University of Technology, new
polymer materials used for industrial floors are being developed.
Secondary raw materials are incorporated into these polymers as
fillers. One of the tested filler materials was glass obtained from solar
panels. The following text describes procedures and results of the
tests that were performed on these materials, confirming the
possibility of the use of solar panel glass in industrial polymer
flooring systems.

• J. Kosikova
• B. Vacenovska
• M. Vyhnankova

• Fillers
• industrial floors
• recycling
• secondary raw material
• solar panel.

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