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Comparative Study for Environmental Assessment of Printed and PCB Technologies

Rajeev Kumar Kanth, Qiansu Wan, Lirong Zheng, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen, Comparative Study for Environmental Assessment of Printed and PCB Technologies. TUCS Technical Reports 990, Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2010.

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 impact especially emissions to air, fresh water, industrial
soil and sea water. The major compositional components of these materials are studied
with reference to emissions into the environment. The goal of this study is to quantify
the environmental emissions in different life cycle stages such as raw materials
preparation, production process and end of life cycle of the printed antenna. In order to
facilitate analysis, the environmental evaluation of the printed technology has been
carried out and compared with the conventional PCB technology. The key parameters
for comparison includes the energy usage, hazardous emissions from raw materials
preparations, production process to end-of-life and recyclability of new versus old
technologies.

BibTeX entry:

@TECHREPORT{tKaWaZhLiTe10a,
  title = {Comparative Study for Environmental Assessment of Printed and PCB Technologies},
  author = {Kanth, Rajeev Kumar and Wan, Qiansu and Zheng, Lirong and Liljeberg, Pasi and Tenhunen, Hannu},
  number = {990},
  series = {TUCS Technical Reports},
  publisher = {Turku Centre for Computer Science},
  year = {2010},
  keywords = {Printed RFID antenna, Conventional PCB antenna, Flexible Substrate, Inkjet Printing, LCA Software, Recycling Technology},
  ISBN = {978-952-12-2497-3},
}

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