The invention discloses a device and method for intelligently sorting waste photovoltaic modules and recovering
silicon wafers, the device comprises a box taking device, a frame dismantling mechanism, a sorting device, a hot knife device, a
tunnel kiln, a screening device, a silver extracting
machine and a master
control unit, and the master
control unit is provided with ResNet-18; the sorting device comprises an annular
infrared light source, an area-array camera, a
telecentric lens, a pneumatic push rod and a flow guide pipeline, wherein the pneumatic push rod and the flow guide pipeline are arranged on the two sides of the conveying belt respectively. The hot knife device comprises an upper driving roller, a lower driving roller, a vacuum chuck and a double-layer
electric heating knife head, the conveying belt penetrates through a gap between the two driving rollers and is connected with the conveying belt at the
tail end of the sorting device, and an
air cooling fan and a
copper solder strip absorbing device which are opposite in position are arranged behind the driving rollers; the
tunnel kiln is connected with the screening device through a conveying belt, and discharging ports of the screening device and the hot knife device are connected with the silver extracting
machine through conveying belts. Intelligent sorting of the waste photovoltaic modules is achieved, and high-value
recovery and conversion of effective components of the waste photovoltaic modules are promoted.