Potential for reducing GHG emissions and energy consumption from implementing the aluminum intensive vehicle fleet in China

Du, J.D.; Han, Wenyi; Peng, Yinghong; Gu, Chen

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.09.037

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“…Young and Vanderburg [36] analyzed an environment for applying LCA to materials in order to determine their extrinsic environmental properties. Other interesting studies have focused on one kind of raw material: e.g., diverse metals [12], magnesium [13][37], steel [38] and aluminum [39]. There are also studies that simultaneously compare different raw materials [3] [40].…”

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confidence: 99%

An integrated method to calculate an automobile's emissions throughout its life cycle

Viñoles-Cebolla

Ceca

Capuz-Rizo

2015

Energy

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An integrated method to calculate an automobile's emissions throughout its life cycle

Viñoles-Cebolla

Ceca

Capuz-Rizo

2015

Energy

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“…To date, environmental analyses and eco-design solutions have been applied in depth to all Life-Cycle (LC) stages of automotive vehicles and components (Berzi et al, 2013(Berzi et al, , 2016Cappelli et al, 2007;Delogu et al, 2015;Mayyas et al, 2012). In this context, many Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) (Chanaron, 2007;Finnveden et al, 2009;ISO 14040, 2006;ISO 14044, 2006) of both conventional (Finkbeiner et al, 2006;Schmidt et al, 2004;Spielmann and Althaus, 2006) and innovative (Alves et al, 2010;Du JD et al, 2010;Duflou et al, 2009;Luz et al, 2010;Mayyas et al, 2011;Vinodh and Jayakrishna, 2011;Zah et al, 2006, Zanchi et. Al., 2106 alternatives for personal transportation have been performed.…”

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End-of-Life in the railway sector: Analysis of recyclability and recoverability for different vehicle case studies

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The railway system represents one of the most resource-efficient answer to our ever-growing demand for transport service and the development trends for the following years forecast a substantial increase in this sector. Considering the European Union, rolling stock realizes a significant share of both goods and passengers carriage while it is responsible for a derisory quota of environmental impact and energy consumption involved by transportation. Contrary to the low environmental impact, the amount of End-of-Life (EoL) waste generated by rolling stocks in relation to the number of vehicles is notable, much greater than in the case of road vehicles. As railway vehicles are built from many heterogeneous components, the EoL rolling stock is a precious source of materials, whose recycling brings measurable economic benefits and needs to be appropriately debated. The paper performs the calculation of recoverability/recyclability rate for different typologies of representative railway vehicles on the basis of primary data and according to the recyclability and recoverability calculation method issued by UNIFE in the context of Product category Rules (PCR). The typologies of railway vehicles taken into account are electric metro, diesel commuter train and high-speed electric train. The analysis envisages also to repeat the calculation in case innovative materials and manufacturing technologies are adopted in the construction of car-body structure. Results show that recyclability/recoverability rates are abundantly over the quota of 90% for each one of the three trains, these latter being made in major part of metals which benefit from very efficient recovery processes. The adoption of innovative materials and manufacturing technologies for car-body structure involves a scarce reduction of recyclability and recoverability rates (about 2% and 0.2% respectively) due to the introduction of components and materials characterized by critical dismantlability and low efficiency recovery processes; recoverability results less affected by lightweighting because post-shredding thermal recovery treatments are roughly independent with respect to dismantlability. A sensitivity analysis based on different dismantling scenarios reveals that the effectiveness of dismantling has a moderate influence on recyclability/recoverability rate (the variation does not exceed 3%). The low variability of recyclability/recoverability rate can be explained by the following reasons: material composition of trains shows a predominance of metals; the efficiency of metals separation processes is close to 100%; post-shredding recycling processes of metals are characterized by recovery factors equal to the ones of post-dismantling recycling processes. Keywords:Train, Railway, Rolling stock, Recyclability, Recoverability, End-of-Life, Dismantling Highlights:Overview on railway vehicles End-of-Life; Assessment of recyclability and recoverability for three trains representative of current railway vehicle categories "urban, high-speed and commuter" ...

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“…Many LCA studies already exist in the transportation sector [35][36][37][38][39] and interest is continuously growing, particularly in the automotive field [11,36,[40][41][42][43][44][45].…”

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Lightweight Design Solutions in the Automotive Field: Environmental Modelling Based on Fuel Reduction Value Applied to Diesel Turbocharged Vehicles

Delogu¹,

Pero²,

Pierini³

2016

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A tailored model for the assessment of environmental benefits achievable by "light-weighting" in the automotive field is presented. The model is based on the Fuel Reduction Value (FRV) coefficient, which expresses the Fuel Consumption (FC) saving involved by a 100 kg mass reduction. The work is composed of two main sections: simulation and environmental modelling. Simulation modelling performs an in-depth calculation of weight-induced FC whose outcome is the FRV evaluated for a wide range of Diesel Turbocharged (DT) vehicle case studies. Environmental modelling converts fuel saving to impact reduction basing on the FRVs obtained by simulations. Results show that for the considered case studies, FRV is within the range 0.115-0.143 and 0.142-0.388 L/100 km × 100 kg, respectively, for mass reduction only and powertrain adaptation (secondary effects). The implementation of FRVs within the environmental modelling represents the added value of the research and makes the model a valuable tool for application to real case studies of automotive lightweight LCA.

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Potential for reducing GHG emissions and energy consumption from implementing the aluminum intensive vehicle fleet in China

Cited by 74 publications

References 17 publications

An integrated method to calculate an automobile's emissions throughout its life cycle

An integrated method to calculate an automobile's emissions throughout its life cycle

End-of-Life in the railway sector: Analysis of recyclability and recoverability for different vehicle case studies

Lightweight Design Solutions in the Automotive Field: Environmental Modelling Based on Fuel Reduction Value Applied to Diesel Turbocharged Vehicles

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