Casamayor, J.L. and Su, D. (2011) Environmental impact assessment of lighting products. Key Engineering Materials, 486. pp. 171-174. ISSN 1013-9826
Abstract
There is a growing demand for products with low environmental impact due to current and upcoming environmental regulations/policies and increased environmental consumer awareness. Thus, integration of tools, methods, techniques for sustainability into design processes is becoming essential to design greener products. This paper presents a novel environmental impact assessment of lighting products' conducted at the design stage, with the support of Life Cycle Assessment methods and related tools including Software Simapro. Two lighting products are used in the assessment, the results showed that one of the lighting products had less (total) impact on the environment than the other one, the main difference of impact between both products was located at the manufacturing phase, and their transport and use phases have higher impact within the life-cycle of the products.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © (2011) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland. |
Keywords: | Life Cycle Assessment; Eco-design; Environmental impact assessment; Lighting products |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Advanced Manufacturing Institute (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2020 11:18 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2020 11:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Trans Tech Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.486.171 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163494 |