Title :
Applying classifications of materials and energy transformations to early environmental assessment of products
Author :
Rombouts, J.P. ; Hennessey, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Design for Sustainability Res. Inst., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
To enable environmental assessment based on conceptual product descriptions this research attempted to define groups of materials and energy transformations. This paper describes the identified groups as well as the application of these classifications to six products and the effect on the outcome of an environmental analysis was measured. For the experiments three different environmental metrics were applied
Keywords :
design for environment; product development; conceptual product descriptions; early product environmental assessment; energy transformations classification; environmental metrics; environmental product analysis; materials classification; Aggregates; Electrical capacitance tomography; Energy consumption; Fuels; Identity-based encryption; Product design; Read only memory; Software systems; Testing; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 1999. Proceedings. EcoDesign '99: First International Symposium On
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0007-2
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.1999.747590
