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Test the next module decision with us.

Help investigate a demanding question in circular solar: which optional measurements earn their cost across unfamiliar module lots? Explore a defined research contribution, its potential output and a practical first step.

Find your contribution

Bring a capability.
Shape the next experiment.

Choose a contribution to see its purpose, a potential first output and a small first step.

Applied R&D engineering

Shape a useful applied experiment.

Influence how measurements, data and decision evaluation fit together in a repeatable research workflow.

Potential first output
A scoped implementation or evaluation work package with capabilities, dependencies and supplier costs.
What you bring
Applied engineering for repeatable instrumentation, acquisition-quality checks, Python/data integration or sequential decision evaluation.
First step
Introduce the relevant capability or resource in one to three nonconfidential sentences.
Prepare an introduction
PV testing & lab access

Help define reproducible PV characterization.

Bring specialist methods into the reference protocol and help specify a realistic, costed testing service.

Potential first output
An independent reference and mandatory-safety protocol, testing menu, access requirements and supplier estimate.
What you bring
Qualified PV diagnostics advice and testing or facility access, with a concrete testing menu, availability, rates and handling capability.
First step
Introduce the relevant capability or resource in one to three nonconfidential sentences.
Prepare an introduction
Module access

Make the study representative.

Help define an intake study around the module families and disposition questions your organization encounters.

Potential first output
An agreed module stream with its source history and access and handling plan.
What you bring
Retired, returned or surplus modules with useful provenance and an agreed access pathway.
First step
Introduce the relevant capability or resource in one to three nonconfidential sentences.
Prepare an introduction
Operator insight

Shape criteria that matter in practice.

Help choose the decision, baseline and complete cost measures that would justify an operator trial.

Potential first output
An operator workflow, efficient comparator and acceptance criteria for a useful evaluation.
What you bring
Experience in recycling, decommissioning, repowering, refurbishment or downstream materials processing.
First step
Describe one intake decision, your current testing workflow and the uncertainty or cost that matters.
Prepare an introduction
Research sponsorship

Back a milestone you can follow.

Connect an agreed contribution with a defined research output, progress reporting and a concrete next decision.

Potential first output
A defined study milestone with responsibilities, budget and reporting.
What you bring
Prospective sponsorship for a defined study milestone, or a specific in-kind testing, equipment or service contribution.
First step
Introduce the relevant capability or resource in one to three nonconfidential sentences.
Prepare an introduction
Resources & introductions

Help the next study move forward.

Match a focused introduction, service or resource with the part of the study where it can make a useful difference.

Potential first output
A relevant capability connection and a clearly defined next step.
What you bring
Relevant equipment access, technical services, data with clear usage rights, or a focused introduction.
First step
Introduce the relevant capability or resource in one to three nonconfidential sentences.
Prepare an introduction

Read the nonconfidential study brief

Start with a conversation

A small first step.
A clear next decision.

Paid work, access, data and publication terms are agreed with scope and funding before work begins.

Nonconfidential study brief

Solar Revitalizer™ | Sequential PV testing study

Proposed study / Protocol and access planning

Can a PV-specific sequential testing policy reduce complete assessment cost across unfamiliar retired crystalline-silicon module lots, at matched routing-error and decision-coverage limits, while preserving required safety checks and outperforming efficient fixed testing and established adaptive methods?

For whom
PV recyclers, decommissioning firms and repowering operators handling retired crystalline-silicon modules.
Proposed method
Investigate whether capture conditions and cross-modal physical consistency improve optional test, repeat, stop or referral decisions. Qualified specialists define mandatory safety/qualification and independent condition/function references. Compare actual operator practice, a cost-tuned fixed workflow, an established adaptive method and the PV-specific candidate with equivalent eligible measurements. Separate development, calibration and untouched source lots; freeze policies and thresholds. Compare complete cost at matched routing-error and automatic-decision coverage limits, with uncertainty and capture-quality ablation. Replayed savings require prospective workflow timing.
Proposed scientific output
A comparative account of when the candidate policy improves cost, routing error and decision coverage across held-out source lots, together with the conditions where efficient fixed or established adaptive methods match or outperform it.
First readiness outputs
  • A documented module-access plan, qualified reference protocol and mandatory safety/qualification requirements.
  • A repeatable acquisition and capture-quality protocol, with specialist-defined physical relationships and optional-test actions.
  • A frozen comparison plan covering source-lot grouping, route errors, coverage, expert review, uncertainty and capture-quality ablation.
  • Supplier-costed work packages, prospective timing and full-cost accounting, with responsibilities and access terms.
Decision enabled
Whether the candidate earns an advantage over simpler and established methods, what fails on unfamiliar lots, and whether a bounded physical validation or partner pilot is justified.
Scope & costing
Initial physical work concerns assessment and routing for retired crystalline-silicon modules. Agree the mechanism, population, access, specialist responsibilities and schedule; build costs from supplier estimates. Environmental effects require a separate lifecycle comparison.
Save the study brief Prepare an introduction

Research plan · 2026 · Built on completed Montclair feasibility and subsequent pre-commercial R&D.

Define the work

Four packages.
One decisive experiment.

SBX would lead the overall scope and budget, with partner responsibilities, access, costs and rights agreed before work begins.

01

Module and reference access

Potential output
A defined cohort, provenance and permissions record, qualified reference protocol and access plan.
Cost & access dependencies
Module availability, handling requirements, laboratory capability, lead times and supplier quotes.
Continuation gate
The cohort and independent reference assessments are feasible and sufficiently defined.
02

Capture and repeatability

Potential output
Paired measurement records and controlled repeat captures that separate acquisition quality from module-condition evidence.
Cost & access dependencies
Qualified testing support, permitted capture conditions, instruments, repeatability requirements and priced acquisition time.
Continuation gate
The measurements and reference findings can support the intended comparison.
03

Policy and held-out comparison

Potential output
Frozen operator, fixed, established-adaptive and candidate comparisons, mechanism ablations and cost/error/coverage results.
Cost & access dependencies
Permissioned records, independent adjudication, specialist implementation and an agreed evaluation design.
Continuation gate
Advance only if the candidate earns a useful advantage; document where simpler methods win.
04

Workflow and value validation

Potential output
Prospective timing, complete operator-cost comparison and a separately defined environmental assessment boundary.
Cost & access dependencies
Operator participation, throughput assumptions, downstream acceptance, realized outcomes or identified estimates, and supplier costs.
Continuation gate
A bounded next phase is justified by measured workflow evidence and realistic adoption conditions.

Begin with nonconfidential information. Supporting technical materials may be discussed on request, subject to availability, permissions and an agreed scope and appropriate confidentiality and ownership terms.

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