Enabling Circular Life-cycle Thinking and Measuring of Sustainability From an Industrial Ecologists Perspective

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dc.contributor.authorByström, Fredrik
dc.contributor.departmentChalmers tekniska högskola / Institutionen för teknikens ekonomi och organisationsv
dc.contributor.examinerNyström Claesson, Anna
dc.contributor.supervisorSteen, Bengt
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-21T12:23:35Z
dc.date.available2021-09-21T12:23:35Z
dc.date.issued2021sv
dc.date.submitted2020
dc.description.abstractAssessing the sustainability of an automotive component can be complex because sustainability aspects need to be balanced against each other. In order to allow the automotive industry to make wise decisions, the industry needs efficient tools which users with little sustainability knowledge can apply to make sustainable decisions in an early concept phase. This thesis researches how such a tool could be constructed and applied to increase the quality of sustainability decisions while expanding circular life-cycle thinking. This thesis applies the knowledge and conclusions from recent life-cycle assessments of electric machines to build a sustainability calculation tool for the Propulsion department at Volvo Cars. The environmental priority strategy methodology was selected to calculate monetary values for environmental impacts from producing electric machines. One of the results from this thesis is the tool that incorporates the earlier mentioned aspects to create an understanding of circular life-cycle thinking and how efficient end-of-life processes can affect the sustainability of a component. The second result consists of outputs from the tool, which are compared and analyzed to determine the tool’s accuracy. The complexity of the tool was also checked by having users draw conclusions of tool outputs and comparing those to the researcher’s conclusions. The main takeaways from the tool development process are that the tool needed to be very clear and easy to understand. Something evident to the researcher may not be evident to the designers and vice versa.sv
dc.identifier.coursecodeTEKX08sv
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12380/304181
dc.language.isoengsv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesE2021_042sv
dc.setspec.uppsokTechnology
dc.subjectlife-cycle thinkingsv
dc.subjectcircular economysv
dc.subjectlife-cycle assessmentsv
dc.subjectelectric machinessv
dc.subjectelectric motorssv
dc.subjectresource efficiencysv
dc.subjectsustainability toolsv
dc.subjectenvironmental priority strategysv
dc.subjectclimate changesv
dc.subjecteco-designsv
dc.subjectresource life-extending strategiessv
dc.subjectsustainable developmentsv
dc.subjectindustrial ecologysv
dc.titleEnabling Circular Life-cycle Thinking and Measuring of Sustainability From an Industrial Ecologists Perspectivesv
dc.type.degreeExamensarbete för masterexamensv
dc.type.uppsokH
local.programmeDesign for sustainable development, MSc
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