Solar Panel Dismantling Records With Blockchain Recycling Traceability
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of a reliable and credible supervision mechanism for recycling solar panels, which are harmful to the environment if discarded without proper treatment.
Innovation Solution
A recycling system and method using a computer connected to a peer-to-peer network and dismantling equipment to capture and store recycling records in a blockchain, ensuring transparent and tamper-proof tracking of solar panel dismantling processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If solar panels are discarded without proper treatments, then disposal is simple and quick, but environmental harm occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing the information element and obtaining product information before the dismantling process begins. This ensures that the solar panel is properly identified and tracked, enabling subsequent proper dismantling and sorting procedures that prevent environmental harm while maintaining efficient disposal.
2Reliability
If a recycling supervision mechanism is established, then recycling reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by generating a recycling record that includes product information and dismantling data, then storing this record in a blockchain distributed ledger. The blockchain network provides decentralized verification and tracking, ensuring recycling reliability through transparent, immutable records without requiring complex centralized supervision infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain distributed ledger acts as an intermediary that mediates between the dismantling equipment and the recycling supervision process. It provides a trusted, decentralized platform for storing and verifying recycling records, simplifying the supervision mechanism while maintaining high reliability through cryptographic security and network consensus.
3Ease of manufacture
If manual dismantling and sorting is performed, then equipment cost is reduced, but measurement precision and tracking accuracy decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The dismantling equipment performs self-service by automatically capturing the information element, obtaining product information, and collecting dismantling data without requiring manual intervention. This automation maintains high measurement precision and tracking accuracy while keeping the system cost-effective by avoiding the need for extensive manual labor and associated training/oversight infrastructure.
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AI summary
A method for generating a recycling record of a solar panel is implemented by a computer that is connected to a dismantling equipment. The method includes: upon the dismantling equipment receiving the solar panel that is provided with an information element, controlling the dismantling equipment to capture the information element, and obtaining product information related to the solar panel based on the information element; controlling the dismantling equipment to dismantle the solar panel and to collect data of dismantling the solar panel; obtaining a recycling result based on the data of dismantling the solar panel; and generating and storing a recycling record that includes the product information and the recycling result as a block in a distributed ledger of a blockchain.