Improving the Process of Product Design in a Phase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Pacana, Andrzej; Siwiec, Dominika; Bednárová, Lucia; Petrovský, Ján

doi:10.3390/pr11092579

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“…The access of national producers to cheap renewable energy determines the future quality of life and the state of the environment, and this has been convincingly proven in a number of works, i.e., [25][26][27]. This Special Issue follows this trend; for example, in their article, A. Pacana, D. Siwiec, L. Bednárová, and J. Petrovský take environmental factors into account along with quality in modeling a product and its life cycle [28]. As presented by the authors, the most important phase in the design phase of a product directly related to renewable energy, such as photovoltaic panels, is to determine the environmental effect for each production alternative, ranking the environmental significance of each alternative and predicting future quality and environmental product characteristics.…”

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Sustainable Development Processes for Renewable Energy Technology II: An Overview

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2024

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Sustainable Development Processes for Renewable Energy Technology II: An Overview

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“…For example, (Misceo et al, 2004) developed a tool supporting the product design stages of SMEs. The tool involves analysing the implementation of the quality function (QFD) (Sakao, 2007;Wolniak, 2018) and combining its results with environmental aspects of the product life cycle (LCA) (Pacana et al, 2023). Its use is intended to examine customer expectations and key environmental aspects in LCA, on the basis of which a checklist for environmental analysis of the product is created.…”

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Qualitative-environmental aspects of products improvement in SMEs from V4 countries

Siwiec,

Pacana,

Gavurová

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Production Engineering Archives

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Sustainable development has caused companies to try to adapt their activities to changing customer expectations, but also to climate change. This poses a particular challenge for SMEs from developing countries. Therefore, the objective of the investigation was to analyse the qualitative-environmental aspects of the improvement of the products in SMEs from the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4). The results analysed constituted a research sample of 379 companies in the electrical machinery industry (machine processing industry), which were obtained in the period from March to September 2023 through a targeted survey. The area of analysis included, e.g.: (i) environmental issues of selected areas of activity, (ii) measures of environmental activity, and (iii) selected qualitative-environmental aspects. Analyses of the research results were carried out using quantitative and qualitative analyses, including comparative analyses, e.g. regarding the implementation status of ISO 14001, EMAS, and ISO 9001. These techniques were used: word cloud, ANOVA test and Mann Whitney U test at the significance level of α=0.05. It has been shown that SMEs in V4 countries focus their activities on improving products to improve their quality rather than limiting their negative environmental impact. Originality of the research is the identification of significant differences in the qualitative-environmental aspects undertaken when SMEs from V4 countries. Research results may contribute to the development activities more effective and coherent in the V4 countries, to achieve a stable and competitive advantage on the market as part of the qualitative and environmental improvement of the products. The research results and the conclusions drawn from them can be used by scientists and practitioners to shape the target states of enterprises in the period of increasing involvement in proecological ideas.

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“…Lithium-ion batteries contain many metals whose recovery and disposal will not only help reduce environmental pollution but will also effectively help slow down the loss of resources and increase the social and economic benefits of metals, their recovery, and disposal [96]. It is also important, for example, to increase protection against overcharging in the case of high-capacity and high-power batteries [97], to popularize pre-heating techniques, mainly in relation to lowtemperature charging that causes the deposition of lithium, which after entering the separator may even cause an explosion [98], and to develop improved thermal stability and low humidity [99][100][101][102].…”

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Analysis of the Ecological Footprint from the Extraction and Processing of Materials in the LCA Phase of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Siwiec,

Frącz,

Pacana

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Sustainability

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The development of batteries used in electric vehicles towards sustainable development poses challenges to designers and manufacturers. Although there has been research on the analysis of the environmental impact of batteries during their life cycle (LCA), there is still a lack of comparative analyses focusing on the first phase, i.e., the extraction and processing of materials. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to perform a detailed comparative analysis of popular electric vehicle batteries. The research method was based on the analysis of environmental burdens regarding the ecological footprint of the extraction and processing of materials in the life cycle of batteries for electric vehicles. Popular batteries were analyzed: lithium-ion (Li-Ion), lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), and three-component lithium nickel cobalt manganese (NCM). The ecological footprint criteria were carbon dioxide emissions, land use (including modernization and land development) and nuclear energy emissions. This research was based on data from the GREET model and data from the Ecoinvent database in the OpenLCA programme. The results of the analysis showed that considering the environmental loads for the ecological footprint, the most advantageous from the environmental point of view in the extraction and processing of materials turned out to be a lithium iron phosphate battery. At the same time, key environmental loads occurring in the first phase of the LCA of these batteries were identified, e.g., the production of electricity using hard coal, the production of quicklime, the enrichment of phosphate rocks (wet), the production of phosphoric acid, and the uranium mine operation process. To reduce these environmental burdens, improvement actions are proposed, resulting from a synthesized review of the literature. The results of the analysis may be useful in the design stages of new batteries for electric vehicles and may constitute the basis for undertaking pro-environmental improvement actions toward the sustainable development of batteries already present on the market.

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Improving the Process of Product Design in a Phase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Cited by 14 publications

References 97 publications

Sustainable Development Processes for Renewable Energy Technology II: An Overview

Sustainable Development Processes for Renewable Energy Technology II: An Overview

Qualitative-environmental aspects of products improvement in SMEs from V4 countries

Analysis of the Ecological Footprint from the Extraction and Processing of Materials in the LCA Phase of Lithium-Ion Batteries

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