Title :
On the way to green mobile products
Author :
Müller, J. ; Griese, H. ; Reichl, H.
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Reliability & Microintegration IZM, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Future electronic products will not only require high quality and reliability as well as convincing properties in use, they will have to be economically efficient and environmentally compatible over their whole life cycle. For the design of such electronic products, product evaluation tools are necessary to improve the various properties step by step. For environmental assessment, the EE toolbox is applied which was developed especially for electronic products based on material content. A new tool for the evaluation of polymers has completed this modular approach which takes thermal treatment after use into account. With regard to the general discussion of global warming and the need for CO 2 reduction, characteristic values of incineration are used for rating the system
Keywords :
air pollution; design for environment; electronic engineering; electronics industry; environmental engineering; polymers; CO2; CO2 reduction; EE toolbox; carbon dioxide reduction; environmental assessment; environmentally compatible; future electronic products; global warming; green mobile product design; incineration; life cycle; material content; mobile electronic products; polymers; product evaluation tools; thermal treatment; Dielectric materials; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Explosives; Global warming; Incineration; Information technology; Plastics; Polymer films; Power generation economics;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1266-6
DOI :
10.1109/.2001.992318
