Life cycle assessment of a domestic induction hob: electronic boards

Elduque, Daniel; Javierre, Carlos; Pina, Carmelo; Martínez, E.; Jiménez, E.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.04.009

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“…Results of these assessments can be used to establish, in a scientific way, the most critical aspects affecting the environmental impact of a wide range of products or services, like wind turbines [25], induction hobs [26,27], plastic recycling [28] or waste management [29].…”

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management: The Influence of Disposal Scenarios on the Environmental Impact of a 2400 L Waste Container

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This paper analyzes the influence of the supply chain management on the environmental impact of a 2400 L waste disposal container used in most cities of Spain. The studied functional unit, a waste disposal container, made up mostly of plastic materials and a metallic structure, and manufactured in Madrid (Spain), is distributed to several cities at an average distance of 392 km. A life cycle assessment of four different scenarios (SC) has been calculated with the software EcoTool v4.0 (version 4.0; i+: Zaragoza, Spain, 2015) and using Ecoinvent v3.0 database (version 3.0; Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories: St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2013). The environmental impact has been characterized with two different methodologies, recipe and carbon footprint. In order to reduce the environmental impact, several end of life scenarios have been performed, analyzing the influence of the supply chain on a closed-looped system that increases recycling. Closed loop management of the waste and reuse of parts allows companies to stop selling products and start selling the service that their products give to the consumers.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management: The Influence of Disposal Scenarios on the Environmental Impact of a 2400 L Waste Container

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“…EPA, 2006); allowing to evaluate the environmental impact throughout the life cycle by means of ISO 14040 standards (International Standard Organization, 2006). This tool has been used to model a wide range of products: from wind turbines (Martínez et al, 2009(Martínez et al, , 2015, electronic boards (Elduque et al, 2014) or induction hobs (Pina et al, 2015) to compost production (Leiva-Lazaro et al, 2014), food packaging (Fernández et al, 2013) or wine production (Jiménez et al, 2014).…”

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Environmental assessment tool to analyse the presence of critical and valuable raw materials

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The aim of this paper is show the software 'Sustainable Electronics' (SE), developed in the University of Zaragoza as an environmental impact assessment tool, specially developed to design components taking into account the presence of critical and valuable raw materials consumption; simulating environmental impact and measuring the overall raw material consumption, taking into account material composition of the electronic components. It considers raw material acquisition, manufacturing processes, transports and end of life. This software allows us to easily update and use the datasets provided by Life Cycle Inventory databases, such as, for example, EcoInvent, developed by the Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories. The methodology has been tested through the software in an electronic board of a touch control used in an induction hob. As result, it has been obtained that there is a high consumption of materials such as copper, tin or aluminium.

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“…Some literature on LCA studies of electronics is available (Andrae et al 2000(Andrae et al , 2004Andrae and Vaija 2014;Ciroth and Franze 2011;Dodbiba et al 2008;Duan et al 2009;Elduque et al 2014;Gunnar Bergendahl et al 2005;Hischier 2015;Hischier and Baudin 2010;Yung et al 2009). Results vary considerably, depending on system boundaries, data sources and assumptions.…”

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