Insight into quantitative environmental emission analysis of printed circuit board

Author

Kanth, Rajeev K. ; Liljeberg, Pasi ; Tenhunen, Hannu ; Wan, Qiansu ; Zheng, Lirong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Turku, Turku, Finland

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents quantitative analysis of environmental emissions in different life cycle stages such as raw material preparation (RMP) and production processing (PP) of printed circuit board. A general emission model for printed circuit board (PCB) has been developed to analyze the emissions to air, fresh water, sea water and industrial soil. This work also demonstrates the quantities of renewable and non-renewable resources that are required to manufacture PCBs. Based on these generic models, the environmental assessment has been carried out in a production of one million PCBs. We also make an attempt to give an analytic description for evaluating the amount of emissions in each life cycle stages of the printed circuit board.

Keywords

environmental factors; printed circuits; PCB; general emission model; life cycle stage; nonrenewable resource; printed circuit board; production processing; quantitative environmental emission analysis; raw material preparation; Computational modeling; Integrated circuit modeling; Materials; Metals; Printed circuits; Production; Soil; Emissions; LCA tools; Life Cycle Assessment; Life Cycle Stages; PCB component;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2011 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8779-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2011.5874613

Filename

5874613