Simplified Life Cycle Assessment of a Conveyor Belting
Abstract
This paper deals with the simplified life cycle assessment (LCA) of a bucket wheel excavator (BWE) conveyor
belting. Belting is the most important component of a belt conveyor. Simplified LCA was conducted with the Ecodesign
Assistant (EA) and the Ecodesign PILOT (EP) software tools. Conveyor belting was recognised as ABE hybrid type
product, whose 'raw material', 'manufacture' and 'end of life' stages are significant in its life cycle. After the second
iteration, the conveyor belting was recognised as a 'raw material' and 'manufacture' intensive product. Further analysis
considered strategies for possible product improvement suggested by the EP tool.
This particular analysis of conveyor belting is part of a complete LCA of the BWE belt conveyor which should
provide a basis for establishment of the methodology for conducting LCA studies of a BWE or similar types of belt
conveyors.
Keywords:
Simplified Life Cycle Assessment / Ecodesign Assistant / Conveyor BeltingSource:
Proceedings of the 8th Triennial International Conference Heavy Machinery 2014 - HM 2014, 2014, 165-170Publisher:
- FACULTY OF MECHANICAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING IN KRALJEVO UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC
Funding / projects:
- Sustainability and improvement of mechanical systems in energetic, material handling and conveying by using forensic engineering, environmental and robust design (RS-MESTD-Technological Development (TD or TR)-35006)
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Mašinski fakultetTY - CONF AU - Đorđević, Miloš AU - Zrnić, Nenad AU - Jerman, Boris PY - 2014 UR - https://machinery.mas.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4789 AB - This paper deals with the simplified life cycle assessment (LCA) of a bucket wheel excavator (BWE) conveyor belting. Belting is the most important component of a belt conveyor. Simplified LCA was conducted with the Ecodesign Assistant (EA) and the Ecodesign PILOT (EP) software tools. Conveyor belting was recognised as ABE hybrid type product, whose 'raw material', 'manufacture' and 'end of life' stages are significant in its life cycle. After the second iteration, the conveyor belting was recognised as a 'raw material' and 'manufacture' intensive product. Further analysis considered strategies for possible product improvement suggested by the EP tool. This particular analysis of conveyor belting is part of a complete LCA of the BWE belt conveyor which should provide a basis for establishment of the methodology for conducting LCA studies of a BWE or similar types of belt conveyors. PB - FACULTY OF MECHANICAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING IN KRALJEVO UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC C3 - Proceedings of the 8th Triennial International Conference Heavy Machinery 2014 - HM 2014 T1 - Simplified Life Cycle Assessment of a Conveyor Belting EP - 170 SP - 165 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_4789 ER -
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Đorđević, M., Zrnić, N.,& Jerman, B.. (2014). Simplified Life Cycle Assessment of a Conveyor Belting. in Proceedings of the 8th Triennial International Conference Heavy Machinery 2014 - HM 2014 FACULTY OF MECHANICAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING IN KRALJEVO UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC., 165-170. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_4789
Đorđević M, Zrnić N, Jerman B. Simplified Life Cycle Assessment of a Conveyor Belting. in Proceedings of the 8th Triennial International Conference Heavy Machinery 2014 - HM 2014. 2014;:165-170. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_4789 .
Đorđević, Miloš, Zrnić, Nenad, Jerman, Boris, "Simplified Life Cycle Assessment of a Conveyor Belting" in Proceedings of the 8th Triennial International Conference Heavy Machinery 2014 - HM 2014 (2014):165-170, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_machinery_4789 .