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Environmental Impact Assessment of an Ignition Pencil Coil by a Combination of Carbon Footprint and Environmental Priority Strategies Methodology
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Chen, Chih-Ming Chang, Huey-Ling |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Description | This study presents a combined carbon footprint (CF) and environment damage assessment with a cradle-to-gate approach for an ignition coil. The process considers a data flow of product as the phases: raw materials preparation, part processing, final-product finishing, and packaging. The assessment was performed to explore an automotive ignition pencil coil during its developing phase. This study illustrated that a green product problem could be evaluated as a carbon footprint and environmental hazard. By using the conceptual flow to set up the assessment procedure, a product can be decomposed into several material ingredients to specify the input parameters in a Life Cycle Assessment. A total CF of an ignition coil can be investigated individually by each of the materials. The total CF of an ignition pencil coil equal to 0.5254 $kgCO_{2}$eq was calculated. The insulated filling and copper winding of an ignition coil generated the two most impacting processes in terms of CF (21.83% and 17.50%, respectively). EPS (Environmental Priority Strategies) methodology evaluates the environmental damage of the product in the product design process. As a result, the metal material has a seriously damaging impact on human health and inanimate resources, especially inanimate resources. The total CF generated by the newly devised ignition coil is over 39~62 percent less than a general type one that exists in the current market. The new ignition pencil coil also uses fewer raw materials and therefore reduces environmental damage to the Earth. |
| Starting Page | 4783 |
| e-ISSN | 20711050 |
| DOI | 10.3390/su14084783 |
| Journal | Sustainability |
| Issue Number | 8 |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-04-16 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Sustainability Environmental Engineering Carbon Footprint Ignition Coil Life Cycle Assessment Environmental Priority Strategies Environmental Impact |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
