CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Date: 2010/05/19 - 2010/05/21, Location: Hefei, China
Publication date:
2010-05-19
Pages:
423 -
428
ISSN:
978-7-5650-0186-4
Proceedings of LCE2010 Conference
Author:
Kellens, Karel
Dewulf, Wim ; Deprez, Wim ; Yasa, Evren ; Duflou, Joost
Keywords:
CIB_LCE, SLS, Life Cycle Engineering, SLM, Ecodesign, CO2PE
Abstract:
Manufacturing processes, as used for discrete part manufacturing, are responsible for a substantial part of the environmental impact of products, but are still poorly documented in terms of environmental footprint. In this paper, first a short description is offered about the CO2PE! – Initiative [1] and the methodology used to analyse manufacturing unit processes. In a second part, the energy and resource flows inventorisation and impact assessment of some sample products made by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) processes are performed.