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Life Cycle Engineering Research Group

Technical products are complex systems that affect the environment through the use of energy and raw materials as well as through the generation of emissions. Solutions towards achieving a sustainable development demand a life cycle-oriented approach. The aim is to minimize costs and optimize revenues as well as minimize risks and environmental impacts throughout the entire product life cycle (from cradle idea to gate).

 

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Juan Felipe Cerdas Marin
+49 531 391 - 7177
juan.cerdas-marin(at)tu-braunschweig.de

The Life Cycle Engineering department is focused in the evaluation of the sustainability implications of products and process on a life cycle perspective. In this regard, we aim at developing computational tools that enable a comprehensive quantification and analysis of potential sustainability issues brought by the emergence of new technologies and its attached technology change.

By applying system analysis methodologies such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) along with modern computational and analytical approaches such as visual analytics, the LCE department aims at efficiently disclosing insights from large and complex product systems to support relevant stakeholders such as manufacturers, policy makers and consumers during decision making processes.

Topics

LCE of emerging technologies
Environmental, economic and social assessments of technology changes
Integrated Computational LCE
Flexible, modular, fast and comprehensive computational tools for LCE
Visual Analytics for LCE
Application of visual analytics tools to disclose interrelations and insights from complex product systems and better support engineers
Circular Economy
Methods and tools to support Design for Environment (DfE) and Design for Recycling (DfR) planning of disassembly and recycling systems

Projects (selected)

Acronym Title
CUBES CUBES Circle-Closed urban modular energy- and resource-efficient agricultural systems
solvoPET Developement of a recycling technology for (multi-layer) PET waste streams
iCAREPLAST Integrated Catalytic Recycling of Plastic Residues into Added-Value Chemicals
BenchBatt Benchmarking and Evaluation of Performance and Costs of High Energy and Voltage Lithium Ion Batteries compared to Post Lithium Battery Technologies
BiNa New paths, strategies, business and communication models for bioplastics as a building block of a sustainable economy
GenDru Resource efficient production of pressure-sensitive moulded adhesives by generative printing processes
MultiMaK2 Design and development of assessment tools for ecologically optimized multi-material automotive components for mass production
LithoRec II Recycling of Lithium-Ionen-Batteries
Fleets Go Green Integrated Analysis and Evaluation of the Environmental Performance of Electric and Plug-in-Hybrid Vehicles in Everyday Usage on the Example of Fleet Operations
MultiMaK Design and development of assessment tools for ecologically optimized multi-material automotive components for mass production
eLCAr E-Mobility Life Cycle Assessment Recommendations
LithoRec Recycling of Lithium-Ionen-Batteries
PRODTECT Development of a software as a ecological and economic decision support tool in consideration of all life cycle phases
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