Application of energy and CO2 reduction assessments for end-of-life vehicles recycling in Japan

Sato, F.; Furubayashi, Takaaki; Nakata, Toshihiko

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.01.002

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“…Plastic, fabrics and other materials usually end up in automotive shredder fluff which is landfilled or combusted. Combustion, favored by an international expert panel [166] delivers energy that can replace fossil fuels but emits more carbon than deriving the same energy from natural gas [22]. In a zero-emissions scenario, such a strategy is only acceptable in a facility with energy valorization and/or CO 2 capture or if plastics are made from renewable sources, all of which are feasible in the medium term.…”

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Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

Hertwich

Ali

Ciacci

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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As one quarter of global energy use serves the production of materials, the more efficient use of these materials presents a significant opportunity for the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the renewed interest of policy makers in the circular economy, material efficiency (ME) strategies such as light-weighting and downsizing of and lifetime extension for products, reuse and recycling of materials, and appropriate material choice are being promoted. Yet, the emissions savings from ME remain poorly understood, owing in part to the multitude of material uses and diversity of circumstances and in part to a lack of analytical effort. We have reviewed emissions reductions from ME strategies applied to buildings, cars, and electronics. We find that there can be a systematic trade-off between material use in the production of buildings, vehicles, and appliances and energy use in their operation, requiring a careful life cycle assessment of ME strategies. We find that the largest potential emission reductions quantified in the literature result from more intensive use of and lifetime extension for buildings and the light-weighting and reduced size of vehicles. Replacing metals and concrete with timber in construction can result in significant GHG benefits, but trade-offs and limitations to the potential supply of timber need to be recognized. Repair and remanufacturing of products can also result in emission reductions, which have been quantified only on a case-by-case basis and are difficult to generalize. The recovery of steel, aluminum, and copper from building demolition waste and the end-of-life vehicles and appliances already results in the recycling of base metals, which achieves significant emission reductions. Higher collection rates, sorting efficiencies, and the alloy-specific sorting of metals to preserve the function of alloying elements while avoiding the contamination of base metals are important steps to further reduce emissions.

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“…4. Reuse of components [22], including through remanufacturing [18] and modularity [23]. [24], cascading [25].…”

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Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

Hertwich

Ali

Ciacci

et al. 2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

306

164

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“…A summary of the overall literature review according to their classification is presented in Table 2. [116] ✓ 2013 Simic and Dimitrijevic [117] ✓ 2013 Berzi et al [118] ✓ ✓ 2013 Tasala Gradin et al [119] ✓ 2013 Saavedra et al [120] ✓ ✓ 2013 Schmid et al [121] ✓ 2013 Hu and Kurasaka [122] ✓ 2014 Miller et al [123] ✓ ✓ ✓ 2018 Xu et al [172] ✓ 2019 Sato et al [174] ✓ 2019 Arora et al [175] ✓ 2019 Mohamad-Ali et al [176] ✓…”

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“…Miskolczi et al [173] proposed a study about the modification of zeolite catalysts by metal loading for using ELV plastic waste pyrolysis. Sato et al [174] proposed an evaluation method to assess benefits with enabling energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission. Arora et al [175] attempted to use the shared responsibility based framework to explore and develop a business model of the ELV management in India.…”

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End-of-life vehicle management: a comprehensive review

Karagöz

Aydın

Šimić

2019

J Mater Cycles Waste Manag

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Waste management is gaining very high importance in recent years. As automotive is one of the most critical sectors worldwide, which is rapidly increasing, the management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) gains importance day by day. Due to legislation and new regulations, actors like users, producers, and treatment facilities are being conferred new responsibilities in the ELV management process. Besides, the ELV management is of vital importance for environment conservation, circular economy and sustainable development. All of these reasons are making the ELV management such a crucial issue to study. Today, the ELV management is a well-positioned and emergent research area. However, the available review papers are focused only on a small area of the ELV management, such as reverse logistics, recovery infrastructure, disassemblability, etc. Besides, a review of state-of-the-art mathematical models for the ELV management is still missing. This paper aims to provide an extensive content analysis overview of studies on the ELV management. A total of 232 studies published in the period 2000-2019 are collected, categorized, reviewed and analyzed. A critical review of the published literature is provided. Gaps in the literature are identified to clarify and suggest future research directions. This review can provide a source of references, valuable insights, and opportunities for researchers interested in the ELV management and inspire their additional attention.Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

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“…This study also demonstrated that more than 50% ELV will be ICEV until 2038. In this sense, the development of new technologies and new reuse and recycling projects should not play second fiddle considering its room for improvement [56,57].…”

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Recoverability Analysis of Critical Materials from Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Batteries through a Dynamic Fleet-Based Approach for Japan

Sato

Nakata

2019

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This study aims to propose a model to forecast the volume of critical materials that can be recovered from lithium-ion batteries (LiB) through the recycling of end of life electric vehicles (EV). To achieve an environmentally sustainable society, the wide-scale adoption of EV seems to be necessary. Here, the dependency of the vehicle on its batteries has an essential role. The efficient recycling of LiB to minimize its raw material supply risk but also the economic impact of its production process is going to be essential. Initially, this study forecasted the vehicle fleet, sales, and end of life vehicles based on system dynamics modeling considering data of scrapping rates of vehicles by year of life. Then, the volumes of the critical materials supplied for LiB production and recovered from recycling were identified, considering variations in the size/type of batteries. Finally, current limitations to achieve closed-loop production in Japan were identified. The results indicate that the amount of scrapped electric vehicle batteries (EVB) will increase by 55 times from 2018 to 2050, and that 34% of lithium (Li), 50% of cobalt (Co), 28% of nickel (Ni), and 52% of manganese (Mn) required for the production of new LiB could be supplied by recovered EVB in 2035.

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Application of energy and CO2 reduction assessments for end-of-life vehicles recycling in Japan

Cited by 47 publications

References 12 publications

Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

End-of-life vehicle management: a comprehensive review

Recoverability Analysis of Critical Materials from Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Batteries through a Dynamic Fleet-Based Approach for Japan

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