Environmental sensitivity of printed circuit board manufacturing to Cu recycling rate, transportation and various energy sources

Elif Ozkan; Bilge Bas; Nilay Elginoz; Fatos Germirli Babuna

doi:10.1504/IJGW.2020.106596

Environmental sensitivity of printed circuit board manufacturing to Cu recycling rate, transportation and various energy sources

Elif Ozkan
, Bilge Bas
, Nilay Elginoz
, Fatos Germirli Babuna^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

This study concentrates on environmental impacts of PCB manufacturing. The objective is to examine the effect of Cu recycling rate, transportation, energy sources and end-of-life (EoL) on global warming potential (GWP), marine aquatic ecotoxicity potential (MAEP), terrestric ecotoxicity potential (TETP), freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity potential (FAETP), human toxicity potential (HTP), ozone layer depletion (ODP), photochemical ozone creation potential (POCP), eutrophication potential (EP), acidification potential (AP) and abiotic depletion potential (ADP fossil, ADP elements) potentials. Increasing Cu recycling rate from 30% to 47%, reduce the impacts by 10 to 103%. The most significant reduction is for HTP. Transportation elevates AP and POCP by 29%, ADP fossil by 23% and GWP by 21%. Obtaining energy from renewable sources causes 56, 40 and 39% reductions in HTP, ADP fossil and GWP, namely. Apart from GWP where PCB manufacturing and EoL has equal impacts, for the other categories PCB manufacturing has more than 75% contribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	237-248
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Global Warming
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2020.106596
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Copyright © 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Funding

Fatos Germirli Babuna has 35 years experience in the field of Environmental Engineering. She received her BSc in Chemical Engineering (Bogazici University), MSc and PhD in Environmental Engineering (Istanbul Technical University. From 1990 to 1992, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at ENEA, Bologna, Italy, by the grant received from the Italian Government. Between 2002–2004, she was the Chair of ITU Environmental Engineering Department. In 1999, she received an incentive award in engineering branch from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). She has published an international book and over 90 scientific papers and received more than 1,400 citations.

Funders
Italian Government
European Neuroendocrine Association

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 14 Life Below Water

Keywords

Cu recycling
Electronics industry
Energy source
Life cycle assessment
Manufacturing
PCB
Printed circuit board
Transportation

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Environmental sensitivity of printed circuit board manufacturing to Cu recycling rate, transportation and various energy sources

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