Environmental impacts of solar energy systems: A review

MKH Rabaia, MA Abdelkareem, ET Sayed… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The annual increases in global energy consumption, along with its environmental issues
and concerns, are playing significant roles in the massive sustainable and renewable global …

Natural dyes for dye sensitized solar cell: A review

G Richhariya, A Kumar, P Tekasakul, B Gupta - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Dye sensitized solar cell converts visible light into electricity using sensitization of the cell.
Performances of dye sensitized solar cells are mainly based on dye used as a sensitizer …

Review on life cycle assessment of solar photovoltaic panels

V Muteri, M Cellura, D Curto, V Franzitta, S Longo… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The photovoltaic (PV) sector has undergone both major expansion and evolution over the
last decades, and currently, the technologies already marketed or still in the …

Progress in dye sensitized solar cell by incorporating natural photosensitizers

MZ Iqbal, SR Ali, S Khan - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been emerged as one of the promising
technological developments in the field of renewable energy. The dye, as sensitizer plays an …

Review on fabrication methodologies and its impacts on performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

G Richhariya, BC Meikap, A Kumar - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
This review highlights and summarizes the impact of different fabrication processes on the
efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Energy conversion efficiency of cell …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review on the recycling technology of silicon based photovoltaic solar panels: Challenges and future outlook

S Preet, ST Smith - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
With the aim of realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement, annual solar power generation on
a global scale using silicon PV panels had exceeded 1000 TWh by the end of 2021. Mass …

Considering the environmental impact of circular strategies: A dynamic combination of material efficiency and LCA

A Salvi, V Arosio, LM Compagnoni, I Cubiña… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Circular economy aims to create a virtuous economic model by decoupling growth from
resource consumption, generating a positive impact on the environment and society. The …

A novel idea of using dyes extracted from the leaves of Prosopis juliflora in dye–Sensitized solar cells

S Sowmya, K Inbarajan, N Ruba, P Prakash… - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
As a step of environmental protection by waste management, fresh and dried leaves of
Prosopis juliflora were utilised in preparing natural dyes with ethanol and acetone as …

The greenest solar power? Life cycle assessment of foam-based flexible floatovoltaics

KS Hayibo, P Mayville, JM Pearce - Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This study presents a life cycle analysis (LCA) of a 10 MW foam-based floatovoltaics (FPV)
plant installed on Lake Mead, Nevada, US A material inventory of the flexible crystalline …

A review of the life cycle analysis results for different energy conversion technologies

V Motuzienė, K Čiuprinskas, A Rogoža, V Lapinskienė - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Technologies that use renewable energy sources (RES) are crucial to achieving
decarbonization goals, but a significant number of studies show their relatively high …