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Life cycle assessment of hybrid vehicles recycling: Comparison of three business lines of dismantling
Belboom, Sandra; Lewis, Grégory; Bareel, Pierre-François et al.
2016In Waste Management, 50, p. 184–193
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Keywords :
End-of-life vehicles; Life-cycle assessment (LCA); Recycling; Electronic control unit; Plastics
Abstract :
[en] This paper undertakes an environmental evaluation of hybrid vehicles recycling, using industrial data from Comet Traitement SA in Belgium. Three business lines have been modelled and analysed. The first one is relative to the business as usual with a dismantling to recover batteries and engines followed by shredding and post shredding treatments. The second one considers, in addition, the removal of electronic control units (ECU) before shredding followed by same steps than in the first line and the last one is relative to the additional removal of big plastic parts before shredding and business as usual post shredding treatments. Results show non-significant environmental benefits when ECU or large parts of plastics are recovered before shredding. Improvements in terms of environmental benefits are lower than the uncertainty of the results. Indeed, the performing usual process for end-of-life vehicles (ELV) treatment reaches 97% of the ELV which is valorised in terms of metal and energy recoveries. Post shredding treatment units include metals, plastics and energy recovery of residues. Comet business as usual route for ELV valorisation is in accordance with the requirements of the European directive and recommendations for further improvement with dismantling of other parts (ECU or plastics) before shredding are non-relevant in this case.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Chemical engineering
Energy
Author, co-author :
Belboom, Sandra ;  Université de Liège > Department of Chemical Engineering > Génie chimique - Procédés et développement durable
Lewis, Grégory;  Comet Traitement SA
Bareel, Pierre-François;  Comet Traitement SA
Léonard, Angélique  ;  Université de Liège > Department of Chemical Engineering > Génie chimique - Procédés et développement durable
Language :
English
Title :
Life cycle assessment of hybrid vehicles recycling: Comparison of three business lines of dismantling
Publication date :
2016
Journal title :
Waste Management
ISSN :
0956-053X
eISSN :
1879-2456
Publisher :
Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
50
Pages :
184–193
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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