Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of streetlight technologies for minor roads in United Arab Emirates

Hadi, Sabina Abdul; Kaabi, Muna R. Al; Ali, Meshayel O. Al; Arafat, Hassan A.

doi:10.1016/j.esd.2013.05.001

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“…Recently, research on LED lighting mainly focuses on its energy-saving and emissionreducing effects. For instance, LED streetlamps use 6-75% less energy and have a 16% lower lifecycle greenhouse gas footprint than do high-pressure sodium lamps [14][15][16]. Islam et al [17] analyzed the emission reduction effect of switching the conventional lighting technology used in most areas of Kazakhstan to LED technology, showing that this can reduce CO 2 emissions.…”

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The Influence of Roadmap for China Phasing Out Incandescent Lamps on the Promotion of Energy-Efficient Lighting Products

Zhu

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To test the energy-saving effect of command-and-control policies, this research evaluates the impact of “Roadmap for China Phasing Out Incandescent Lamps” on the promotion of energy-efficient lighting products. We use the difference-in-difference (DID) model to investigate the influence of the policy on the promotion of LED lighting products at home and abroad based on 440 panel data from 22 LED lighting companies from 2011 to 2020. The results indicate that, compared with the control group, the sales revenue of LED lighting products in the treatment group increased in China and in foreign markets. In addition, the policy has had a more significant impact on the promotion of LED lighting abroad than in China.

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The Influence of Roadmap for China Phasing Out Incandescent Lamps on the Promotion of Energy-Efficient Lighting Products

Zhu

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…Methodologies such as LCA or LCC provide useful results for decisionmaking in the system design. Reviewing the scientific literature, a larger number of publications analyze the economic impact of lighting systems [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33], while works that apply LCA individually or also integrate LCC for the quantification of environmental and economic impact are less frequent [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44]. Only a limited number of studies consider comparative LCA of different lighting technologies on roads.…”

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“…Only a limited number of studies consider comparative LCA of different lighting technologies on roads. In general, these studies usually consider two technologies exclusively, whereas most of the literature analyzes streetlight technologies and luminaires [14,16,18,27,28,40,45,46]-and, less frequently, road lighting [14,40,47]. LCA studies of lighting typically only consider the lamps, and not the entire system (such as bulbs, luminaires, ballast, columns, circuits, wire connections, and energy supply).…”

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A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Costing of Lighting Systems for Environmental Design and Construction of Sustainable Roads

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The management of the life cycle of the transport network is one of the main challenges of sustainable mobility. Roads and highways cause significant damage to the ecosystem. Specifically, lighting systems contribute to climate change, energy consumption, and human health effects. In this context, this work proposes the combination of life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) to analyze the eco-efficiency of the life cycle of a road, including evaluation of the relative contribution of the lighting system to the total impact. Four scenarios were included in the model: (S1) high-pressure sodium lamps with ballast powered from the grid; (S2) halogen lamps powered from the grid; (S3) light-emitting diode lamps powered from the grid; and (S4) light-emitting diode lamps powered from a standalone photovoltaic system. The life cycle stages of raw material extraction, construction, use, maintenance, and end of road life were included in the analysis. The results show that scenarios S3 and S1 are the most eco-efficient relative to the less favorable S2 scenario (80% and 74% lower, respectively). Scenarios with the least environmental impact are the most economically viable.

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“…WEEE includes all 10 categories as specified in the EU WEEE directive as seen in Table 16. Moreover, the results from various sources of end-of-life assessment have modeled appropriate EOL scenario using SimaPro 7.1 with the Eco-indicator 99 method (Bunprom et al, 2009;Abdul Hadi et al, 2013;Tahkamo et al, 2015).…”

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“…This study followed the methodology used by Abdul Hadi et. Al., (2013), which normalized the operating time required for predicting the future.…”

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Life cycle assessment of lighting equipment: A comparison of fluorescent lamp and light emitting diode lamp in Thailand

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EOL lighting equipment has been regarded as hazardous household waste (HHW) which is often disposed together with general waste in Thailand. Such improper management of EOL has caused increasing risk of environmental and health impact to Thai society. This study has two main objectives: (1) To estimate an EOL inventory of FLs and LEDs in Thailand and (2) To evaluate and compare environment impacts of FLs and LEDs throughout their life cycle and identify the appropriate approach for handling discarded FLs and LEDs at the end of life stage in Thailand. The study presents life cycle assessment (LCA) of two lighting technologies, fluorescent lamp (FL) and light emitting diode (LED) that are used widely in Thailand. The gate to grave investigation for FL and LED includes manufacturing, distribution, use and end-of-life (EOL) scenarios. The analysis used the SimaPro 7.1.8 program under the CML2001 assessment method for the midpoint and the Eco-indicator 99 assessment method for the endpoint. Furthermore, this research evaluated the potential future impact from different management schemes including: (1) 100% landfilling, (2) 10% recycling and 90% landfilling, (3) 30% recycling and 70% landfilling. The results showed that (1) the quantity of EOL FL has been continuously decreased from 60.15 million units in 2011 to 27.23 million units in 2025. The EOL LED will be increased in 2021 (365.62 million units) and decreased in 2024. Then, the quantity of EOL LED will be still increased in 2030 (250.1 million units). The finding is based on the expectation that the government will continue promoting the fluorescent replacement with LEDs as one of energy saving measures of the country. (2) the environmental impact of LED has lower in major impact categories than that of FL about 70%. The use phase caused the majority of the environmental impacts: 98.94% in FL and 96.46% in LED, followed by the manufacturing and EOL stage. For the EOL stage, FL and LED landfilling could contribute highest negative burdens to the human health, ecosystem quality and resource depletion impact compared to recycling approach. The results found that the recycling would be better than landfilling about 90.44 fold in FL and 296.36 fold in LED, respectively. Additionally, it revealed that the most benefits come from aluminum scrap recycling which can reduce 94.4% in the FL and the magnetic ballast. On the other hand, the LED recycling also distributes the profits to resources sustainability by recycling the aluminum from the heatsink and polycarbonate from tube cover of LED lamp set. Based on this study finding and leaching test result from the literature, this study recommended that LED can be considered as a non-hazardous waste which can be disposed normally with other non-hazardous waste. Given the potential of recycling LED and the hazardous composition in FL, lighting equipment should be included as one of priority products in the draft Thai WEEE management law.

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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of streetlight technologies for minor roads in United Arab Emirates

Cited by 32 publications

References 3 publications

The Influence of Roadmap for China Phasing Out Incandescent Lamps on the Promotion of Energy-Efficient Lighting Products

The Influence of Roadmap for China Phasing Out Incandescent Lamps on the Promotion of Energy-Efficient Lighting Products

A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Costing of Lighting Systems for Environmental Design and Construction of Sustainable Roads

Life cycle assessment of lighting equipment: A comparison of fluorescent lamp and light emitting diode lamp in Thailand

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