TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of different technological and energy supply related measures on the primary energy demand of CFRP production
AU - Wehner, D.
AU - Hohmann, A.
AU - Schwab, B.
AU - Albrecht, S.
AU - Ilg, R.
AU - Sedlbauer, K.
AU - Leistner, P.
AU - Drechsler, K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Carbon reinforced plastics (CFRP) are well-known for their excellent weight specific properties, resulting in energy reduction and emission savings during the use phase. Due to the required amount of raw materials and energy in the production phase, the holistic sustainability of these materials significantly depends on the manufacturing method, the achieved weight reduction and the respective application. One important key performance indicator to describe the sustainability of products over their whole life cycle is the primary energy demand (PED). The PED includes all sources of primary energy that have to be withdrawn from the environment in order to provide the function of a process, a product or a service. The presented study provides both manufacturers and users of CFRP with the means to effectively reduce the PED of CFRP production by investigating the effect of different technologically and energy supply related measures and their interdependencies along the process chain of CFRP production. The results show a great variance of the PED depending on particular, partly interdependent parameters in the process chains and highlight the importance of a detailed investigation of the state of the process chains subject to optimization.
AB - Carbon reinforced plastics (CFRP) are well-known for their excellent weight specific properties, resulting in energy reduction and emission savings during the use phase. Due to the required amount of raw materials and energy in the production phase, the holistic sustainability of these materials significantly depends on the manufacturing method, the achieved weight reduction and the respective application. One important key performance indicator to describe the sustainability of products over their whole life cycle is the primary energy demand (PED). The PED includes all sources of primary energy that have to be withdrawn from the environment in order to provide the function of a process, a product or a service. The presented study provides both manufacturers and users of CFRP with the means to effectively reduce the PED of CFRP production by investigating the effect of different technologically and energy supply related measures and their interdependencies along the process chain of CFRP production. The results show a great variance of the PED depending on particular, partly interdependent parameters in the process chains and highlight the importance of a detailed investigation of the state of the process chains subject to optimization.
KW - CFRP
KW - Energy consumption
KW - Life cycle assessment
KW - Process chains
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018532042
T3 - ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials
BT - ECCM 2016 - Proceeding of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials
PB - European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM
T2 - 17th European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM 2016
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 30 June 2016
ER -
