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Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Antenna: Comparative Analysis and Environmental Impacts Evaluation

Rajeev Kumar Kanth, Qiansu Wan, Harish Kumar, Pasi Liljeberg, Lirong Zheng, Hannu Tenhunen, Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Antenna: Comparative Analysis and Environmental Impacts Evaluation. In: Matthew Eckelman (Ed.), Conference Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), 1, 1, IEEE, 2011.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936899

Abstract:

This work presents cradle to grave life cycle assessment of printed electronics resources.
In this work an attempt has been made to investigate and evaluate the life cycle
assessment and environmental impacts of printed electronics resources such as polymer
substrate-printed RFID antenna. Life cycle inventory analysis for these resources has
been carried out to quantify total systems’ inputs and outputs that are relevant to
the environmental impacts especially emissions to air, fresh water, industrial soil and sea
water. The results show that printed electronics materials are considerably more
environment friendly than materials needed for PCB electronics. We have obtained
the mass of emissions in each life cycle stages which verify that technology wise
printed antenna causes less harmful and hazardous impacts to the environment.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpKaWaKuLiZhTe11a,
  title = {Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Antenna: Comparative Analysis and Environmental Impacts Evaluation},
  booktitle = {Conference Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST)},
  author = {Kanth, Rajeev Kumar and Wan, Qiansu and Kumar, Harish and Liljeberg, Pasi and Zheng, Lirong and Tenhunen, Hannu},
  volume = {1},
  editor = {Eckelman, Matthew},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  pages = {1},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {Flexible   Substrate,   Life   Cycle   Assessment, Inkjet  Printing,  LCA  software,  Printed  Circuit  Board  (PCB), Printed RFID Antenna},
}

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