Advancing Eco-Design in Aviation: Strategies, Challenges and Pathways to Sustainability
Eco-design in aviation has emerged as a critical approach in addressing the environmental impacts of air transportation. The aviation industry has been exploring and acting on various sustainable levelers to reduce environmental impacts which includes...
Beyond the Bin: Harmonizing EPR, Right-to-Repair, and Eco-Design through an ‘Active Triage’ System Model
The transition toward a circular economy for electronics is currently driven by a triad of robust legislative instruments: the Eco-design for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) , the Right to Repair (R2R) directive, and the Critical...
Critical Methodological Choices for Using LCA in Eco-Design of Chemicals and Plastics
Critical Methodological Choices for Using LCA in Eco-Design of Chemicals and Plastics Mariana Ochodková 1 Elisa Arteaga Prieto1 Karel Van Acker 1,2,3 1. SAM Research Group, Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44,...
Environmental performance of novel food products – A case study about bacterial burgers
The PROTEBOOST project aims at producing alternative food products based on biomass from purple bacteria fed with agrifood industry co-products. The project involves technological research for all production steps, from biomass production to food product...
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of directed energy deposition based additive manufacturing: A comparative gearbox production case study
As new technologies emerge is necessary to assess if they can actually contribute to sustainable improvement of industrial processes. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a valuable tool to determine environmental impacts and compare systems. However,...
Greening Printed Electronics: Sustain-a-Print’s Ecodesign Optimization
The EU’s electronics sector is one of the fastest-growing in waste streams production (2% annual rate). Surprisingly, less than 40% of electronic waste generated is currently recycled. To address the challenges of the increased resource...
Insights into the development and use of a quantitative eco-design tool for the early development stages of medical devices
Session 18: Life Cycle Innovation and Eco-Design
Eco-design tools for the early stages of the development process are often qualitative. Quantitative assessments of environmental impact, like Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), can be difficult to apply early on, when a lot of questions...
Life Cycle Assessment and Eco-Design for Energy-Efficient Automatic Industrial Machines
The transition to sustainable manufacturing requires the careful integration of environmental performance indicators into equipment design, particularly in the case of energy-intensive industrial systems. In this context, eco-design principles play a central role, guiding the...
Life Cycle Assessment as an eco-design tool for a CO2 capture membrane
The SunCoChem research project addresses the environmental challenges associated with the production of oxochemicals, which are widely used in various industrial applications. The conventional method of hydroformylation, reliant on petroleum-derived materials, contributes significantly to greenhouse...
Life Cycle Assessment as an eco-design tool for thermoelectric materials and systems
Industrial processes generate significant amounts of waste heat that often remains unexploited. Thermoelectric technologies offer a promising solution by converting this thermal energy directly into electricity [1]. This study presents a comprehensive life cycle assessment...
Rethinking Product Design with the Ecodesign Evaluation Framework for Sustainable Innovation
Despite the efforts to encourage sustainable product design, the linear design approach still persists in the creation of many products. At present, there is still a limited number of genuinely sustainable products on the market,...
Sustainable Design Thinking: Eco-Design Strategies and Business Models
Eco-design incorporates environmental impact into product design and development at a product’s conception to enhance environmental performance throughout its lifecycle. This approach highlights environmental opportunities and weaknesses and thus provides important decision-making guidance for product...
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