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Circular Design methodology is essential for sustainable industrial practices. This study provides a methodology with a Python-based computational tool that optimizes industrial products’ disassembly sequences, focusing on Design for End-of-Life (DfEoL) and Design for Disassembly (DfD) to promote Circular Design. The tool creates disassembly preced...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is crucial for evaluating the environmental impact of products, but challenges such as uncertainties and data limitations hinder its effective use in design. This paper reviews LCA computational tools, focusing on traction batteries, and examines aspects such as software architecture, database integration, and uncertaint...
The current government directives have focused industries' attention on environmental sustainability issues in products and processes. There is indeed a growing demand from customers to conduct environmental impact assessments of the products they purchase. This work presents the implementation of a predictive model developed in an industrial conte...
div class="section abstract"> Nowadays, electrification is largely acknowledged as a crucial strategy to mitigate climate change, especially for the transportation sector through the transition from conventional vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). As the demand for EVs continues to rise, the development of a robust and widespread charging infrastr...
Sustainable development is one of the main objectives in the turbomachinery sector to achieve the climate neutrality targets set by 2050 protocols. The manufacturing industry consumes an average of 23% of global energy, significantly contributing to the generation of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Therefore, it is crucial to research techno...
Multi-modal battery-operated trains are gaining an increasing favor and diffusion, as a sustainable alternative to Diesel-Electric and Diesel-Hydraulic Powertrain that are conventionally used on not electrified or partially electrified lines. In this work authors examine how current improvements on battery technologies are going to increase perform...
Lithium-ion battery cells are considered the best solution for energy storage systems in Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), due to their high energy density, high lifecycle, and low aging impact. Battery performances are strictly connected to operating conditions, especially temperature. Modern Battery Thermal Management Systems (BTMSs) optimize bat...
Environmental sustainability is a crucial topic in the mobility industry, where manufacturers face severe legislative requirements to reduce cars’ environmental impacts. To address this, the paper presents a novel assessment approach for life-cycle emissions that aids designers in developing environmentally sustainable automotive products without c...
In recent years, there has been growing attention from the scientific community regarding the environmental impact of commercial goods, pushing companies to adopt life cycle assessment strategies to improve their environmental profile. Only few studies have examined the environmental burdens of electric motors, specifically for stationary applicati...
Sustainable development, one of the main challenges of our time, is a policy focused on the perfect balance between three fundamental pillars: environmental, economic and social sustainability. As regards the environmental protection, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology allows to evaluate the sustainability profile of the overall Life-Cycle...
Textile dryers are energy-consuming machines that are widely diffused in the textile industry Authors are currently working on the complete redesign of a sustainable drier which is completely rethought to maximize productivity and sustainability. In this work, the authors focus their attention on modeling and design of winding and transport of the...
The drying processes of wool and other textile materials are energyintensive and not very efficient. In this work, the authors investigated an unconventional drying system able to produce a uniform drying preserving the quality of the treated fabric. The proposed process is also very efficient since the proposed radiofrequency technology can optimi...
This paper presents a smart tool to support the determination of sustainability of automotive components. Many research and industrial activities have been concentrated in the field of sustainability of passenger vehicles through the development of smart materials, manufacturing technologies and production processes. However, the environmental impa...
The PROTEUS project involves the construction of a self-propelled and floating amphibious machine for near shore geological surveys. In this context, the development of a wireline core drilling device was tackled, evolving with respect to existing models and responding to the specificities of the new application. In the preliminary phase, comparati...
The ongoing electrification of road vehicles needs to be supported by proper growth of charging infrastructure. In this context, dynamic wireless charging can provide a number of advantages, main being the possibility to extend vehicle range without increasing on board battery capacity, potentially reducing cost, mass, and tank-to-wheel energy cons...
High-performance Permanent Magnets (PMs), both as sintered metal and bonded metal-polymer, are necessary for modern industry. PMs using Rare Earth Elements (REEs) for wind power generation provide efficiency and power density. As a drawback, REEs are critical due to cost, environmental and social impacts related to their production. Component optim...
div class="section abstract"> Car makers are subject to a strong regulatory pressure to make the industry more environmentally sustainable. In this context, many research and industrial activities have been concentrated in the field of sustainability through the development of innovative materials, manufacturing technologies and production processe...
In the last decades, sustainability has become a critical issue for the vehicle industry. Today automotive manufacturers are subjected to several government regulations aimed at making the industry more environmentally sustainable. In this context, many research and industrial activities are focused on the eco-design field by developing innovative...
The study presented is part of the Rural Development Programme of the Tuscany Region and the European Union: the objectives are to limit the number of manual operations, to enhance technological transfer operations, to share best practices and to reduce the carbon footprint of the Scindapsus cuttings production chain. In this context, the work pres...
Mechanical recycling of common materials such as plastics requires appropriate material segregation, which is usually performed adopting processes similar to those developed for mineral engineering industry. Due to the need to increment amount and quality of selection products, such processes – still developed through trial-and-error approach – are...
Newly electric vehicle architectures require intensive virtual and physical testing for safety assessment, due to the increasing relevance of By-Wire systems and the presence of innovative control algorithms for ordinary driving scenario, potential emergency situations or Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems implementation purpose. To reduce the deve...
Trenchless excavation will play a key role in the development of smart cities allowing a fast and sustainable improvement of underground infrastructures. Directional drilling machines are a fundamental tool in this process allowing the installation of pipes, ducts and cables with a relatively free trajectory. In the optic of a progressive decarboni...
Demand for urban mobility continue to be on the rise and the changing landscape has profound repercussions on a varied range of issues as well as health, safety, water, transport and energy consumption. For this reason, to achieve sustainable urbanization, cities must generate better employment opportunities, expand the necessary infrastructure, en...
A thorough assessment of Life-Cycle effects involved by vehicle lightweighting needs a rigorous evaluation of mass-induced consumption, on which energy and sustainability benefits during use stage directly depend. The paper proposes an analytical calculation procedure to estimate the weight-related energy consumption of pure Electric Vehicles (EVs)...
The paper presents an innovative lightweight design solution for the rear crash management system of a C-class car, developed within the AffordabLe LIghtweight Automobiles AlliaNCE (ALLIANCE) EU research project. The innovation provides that the reference version of the module, based on conventional steel components, is revolutionized through the i...
The paper contributes at filling the lack of knowledge on Photovoltaic (PV) panels recycling through the analysis of a mobile mechanical treatment plant developed within the context of a European project. The process, the machinery installed in the system and their main functionalities are described. The data are used to perform a Life Cycle Assess...
The paper displays extracts from the results of the Affordable LIghtweight Automobiles AlliaNCE (ALLIANCE) project, funded by the Horizon 2020 framework programme of the European Commission. In this regard, a door demonstrator, that is, currently in series production and mainly consists of steel materials, has been re-engineered making use of state...
This paper shows one of the first example of S-LCA application in the automotive sector by means of the Product Social Impact Assessment method, developed by the Roundtable for the Product Social Metrics. The case study concerns a vehicle component. The main companies involved in the production stage have been engaged in the data collection; theref...
The use of so called Rare Earth Elements (REEs) for the production of permanent magnets (PMs) is increasing worldwide due to the needs of numerous industrial sectors. REEs are described in literature as critical materials due to the uncertainties related to cost instability and due to the potential environmental and social impact associated to thei...
Sustainability is a critical issue for the automotive industry, making that car manufacturers have to address also environmental issues additionally to the traditional ones. Within this context, many research and industry activities have been concentrated in the field of lightweighting through the development of innovative materials and manufacturi...
In the characterization of the mechanical behavior of metallic materials, the effects of the combined action of corrosive environmental factors, together with stress states induced by operating loads, are the subject of in-depth studies and undergoing continuous development.
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Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) applications have been growing during the last years. Most of the scientific articles published so far have addressed the applicability of S-LCA, focusing on selecting suitable indicators, and only recently, the developments in the area of impact pathway are increasing. However, a critical analysis of ho...
The objective of this paper is to discuss the main barriers for modelling and integrating the environmental performances in the automotive concept design. Incorporating environmental assessment in the early design phase of a vehicle component is known as an important challenge that car makers need to face in order to develop more sustainable design...
The use of photovoltaic panels in Europe led to the installation of about 100GWp in the last decade, an amount which is still growing. The productive life of panels is expected to be between 10 to 30 years, so that in the future a strong demand for systems able to perform their End–of–Life treatment is undoubted. As a consequence of the Directive 2...
Nowadays, lightweight materials and design is one of the means carmakers employ to reduce CO2 emissions according to EU's goals and sustainability principles. In this paper, a comparative analysis between alternative design solutions for Electric Vehicles (EVs) components was carried out using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC...
The diffusion of small size electric vehicles mainly designed for the urban context can significantly reduce the impact of personal mobility not only due to reduced energy consumption but also optimizing the use of parking and driving space in comparison with conventional vehicles. The solutions proposed on the market and at research level include...
Transportation represents one of the major contributors to several environmental burdens such as Green-House-Gas (GHG) emissions and resource depletion. Considering the European Union, light duty vehicles are responsible for roughly 10% of total energy use and air emissions. As a consequence, the need for higher fuel/energy efficiency in both conve...
Lightweight design and electrified powertrain have become important strategies in the automotive industry to reduce fuel demand and break down emissions respectively. Lightweighting of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is considered a step forward because advantages of both EVs and lightweight design could be combined to reduce environmental impacts even fur...
In past years the European Union (EU) set targets to reduce emis-sions in order to encourage and develop a more sustainable society. As a conse-quence of this carmakers began to study new materials and innovative technol-ogies in order to lightweight their vehicles, thus reducing use stage fuel con-sumption and environmental impact. A promising str...
The paper proposes a method aimed to support Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the evaluation of environmental benefits achievable by lightweight design solutions in the automotive field. The study is based on an in-depth calculation of car weight-induced Fuel Consumption (FC) resulting in the Fuel Reduction Value (FRV) coefficient; this is functional...
The existing Community regulation pushes the carmakers to design eco-sustainability of the vehicle over its life cycle to limit the consequences of the current state and the expected growth of the sector. In this sense, one of the primary aim is reducing raw materials consumption and emissions through the adoption of innovative materials and techno...
The development of Electric Vehicles (EV's), either fully electric (BEV…battery electric vehicle) or different hybrids (like HEV… hybrid electric vehicles or PHEV…plug-in hybrids), is an undeniable prerequisite to fulfill the worldwide emission targets for transport even within the next 10-15 years. The conventional development methods and tools on...
The European Green Vehicle project ENLIGHT aims to advance highly innovative lightweight material technologies for application in structural vehicle parts of future volume produced Electric Vehicles (EVs) along four axes: performance, manufacturability, cost effectiveness and lifecycle footprint. The main target is to develop viable and sustainable...
Overall, light weighting strategies are mainly analysed in the aim of reducing impact during the use phase of a vehicle. In this paper environmental and economic assessments are combined to evaluate the sustainability of adopting an innovative lightweight material for an automotive component. The analysis is carried out according to the Life Cycle...
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 environm...
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 environm...
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 respo...
Motorcyclists are particularly vulnerable since worldwide they represent 23% of all road traffic deaths. Fatalities are decreasing but still not at the same rate of car occupants. Continuous monitoring of traffic accidents and their in-depth comprehension (i.e. relationship between injuries and causes) are necessary to develop effective countermeas...