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Interdisciplinary Collaborations to Address the Uncertainty Problem in Life Cycle Assessment of Nano-enabled Products: Case of the Quantum Dot-enabled Display
摘要： Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool for assessing the environmental impacts of established processes and products. However, its use in decision-making for sustainable development of emerging technologies is challenging. High levels of uncertainty and lack of data over the complete value chain associated with nascent nano-enabled products (NEPs) makes it difficult to perform LCA studies early in the design process. This study addresses the uncertainty problem faced by LCA, and a demonstration is performed with a case study of quantum dot (QD)-enabled display. The study at hand proposes a dynamic life cycle assessment (dLCA) framework, which emphasizes iterative evaluation and collaborative efforts to tackle the data scarcity problem faced by retrospective (traditional) LCA. Experimental study of two commercially available QD-enabled displays (hand-held tablet with CdSe QD-enabled display and TV set with InP QD-enabled display) is performed for data collection of QD amount and release. After complete digestion, the experimental result shows that the concentration of CdSe (3.92 ± 0.32 μg/cm2) in the QD enhancement film (QDEF) of Tablet is comparable with the concentration of InP (3.56 ± 0.24 μg/cm2) in the QDEF of TV. After accounting for the experimental results, the second traversal of dLCA is performed, and it shows that cumulative energy demand (CED) per unit area for InP QD-enabled displays is 5.28 x 10-3 MJ/cm2 (first traversal was 2.59 x 101 MJ/cm2) and CdSe QD-enabled displays is 3.92 x 10-4 MJ/cm2 (first traversal was 4.32 x 10-2 MJ/cm2). This study highlights the role of collaborative research between life cycle modelers and experimentalists to improve the credibility of LCA results for emerging NEPs. Even though this study is based on the case of QD-enabled displays, the proposed dLCA framework and interdisciplinary collaboration method can also be applied to other emerging technologies.
关键词： Quantum Dots,Environmental Impact,Life Cycle Assessment,Nano-enabled Products,Dynamic LCA
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04
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Economic and environmental potential for solar assisted central heating plants in the EU residential sector: Contribution to the 2030 climate and energy EU agenda
摘要： Aligning with the ambitious EU 2030 climate and energy package for cutting the greenhouse emissions and replacing conventional heat sources through the presence of renewable energy share inside efficient district heating fields, central solar heating plants coupled with seasonal storage (CSHPSS) can have a viable contribution to this goal. However, the technical performance variation combined with inadequate financial assessment and insufficient environmental impact data associated with the deployment of those innovative district heating systems represents a big challenge for the broad implementation of CSHPSS in Europe. In this context, our paper presents a comprehensive evaluation for the possibility of integrating CSHPSS in the residential sector in various EU member states through the formulation of a multi-objective optimization framework. This framework comprises the life cycle cost analysis for the economic evaluation and the life cycle assessment for the environmental impact estimation simultaneously. The technical performance is also considered by satisfying both the space heating demand and the domestic hot water services. The methodological framework is applied to a residential neighborhood community of 1120 apartments in various EU climate zones with Madrid, Athens, Berlin, and Helsinki acting as a proxy for the Mediterranean continental, Mediterranean, central European, and Nordic climates, respectively. The optimization results regarding the energy performance show that the CSHPSS can achieve a renewable energy fraction above 90% for the investigated climate zones. At the same time, the environmental assessment shows significant improvement when using the CSHPSS in comparison to a natural gas heating system, in those cases the environmental impact is reduced up to 82.1–86.5%. On the other hand, substantial economic improvement is limited, especially in the Mediterranean climate zone (Athens) due to low heating demands and the prices of the non-renewable resources. There the total economic cost of the CSHPSS plants can increase up to 50.8% compared to a natural gas heating system. However, considering the incremental tendency in natural gas prices all over EU nowadays, the study of future plant costs confirms its favorable long-term economic feasibility.
关键词： Life cycle assessment (LCA),2030 climate and energy EU targets,Multi-objective optimization,Life cycle cost (LCC),Central solar heating plant with seasonal storage,Solar community
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36