Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619299
S. Yamamichi, A. Shibuya
An ultra-thin decoupling capacitor device has been developed, and its thickness and volume are one-seventh and one-third of those of conventional ceramics capacitors, respectively. Low temperature deposition of high dielectric constant SrTiO3thin film and flexible polyimide film as a base material make the capacitor smaller drastically. Mn impurity doping into SrTiO3improves the capacitor reliability and Mo-based electrode successfully prevents the polyimide film contraction. The capacitor shows a large capacitance density of 3.2 nF/mm2, and low leakage current of 10-7A/cm2at 10V with only a 40 μm thickness. This capacitor device is suitable for developing eco-friendly electronic products.
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Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619329
H. Oouchi, T. Morita
A world new simple electronically sheath heated self-disinfection secateur, an experimental prototype kit has been designed and made for alternating chemical disinfection of the blades. A battery with capacity of 7.2 V is designed to hung on worker's waist belt. Hence, the battery enables heating blades at more than 100 °C for about 3 hours in a field operation. This battery operated heating secateur should contribute in economy of harvesting by protecting from contagious disease transmission and in saving farmers from routine time consuming disinfection work by chemicals in every cutting.
{"title":"Micro-Sheath Heated Secateur (Pruning Shear) for Prevention of Contagious Plant Diseases","authors":"H. Oouchi, T. Morita","doi":"10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619329","url":null,"abstract":"A world new simple electronically sheath heated self-disinfection secateur, an experimental prototype kit has been designed and made for alternating chemical disinfection of the blades. A battery with capacity of 7.2 V is designed to hung on worker's waist belt. Hence, the battery enables heating blades at more than 100 °C for about 3 hours in a field operation. This battery operated heating secateur should contribute in economy of harvesting by protecting from contagious disease transmission and in saving farmers from routine time consuming disinfection work by chemicals in every cutting.","PeriodicalId":383623,"journal":{"name":"2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114177585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619208
M. Lindahl, O. Hjelm, E. Sundin, L. Thuresson
This paper describes experiences from several years of DfE studies at different manufacturing companies, as well as their strategies for approaching DfE. The general experience from the authors is that in order to make DfE truly utilized, it must become a "living part" of the company. To reach this point, it is important to obtain a strong commitment not only from the manufacturing company's management, but also from other DfE stakeholders throughout the company, at both the strategic and operational levels. DfE initiatives must be considered as a strategic issue and an investment in increased competitiveness. When summarizing all the experiences presented in this paper, a conclusion is that manufacturing companies often have a need for a general model that focuses on how to make "DfE thinking" a natural part of the company's way of doing business
{"title":"What could be learned from the utilization of Design for Environment within manufacturing companies?","authors":"M. Lindahl, O. Hjelm, E. Sundin, L. Thuresson","doi":"10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619208","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes experiences from several years of DfE studies at different manufacturing companies, as well as their strategies for approaching DfE. The general experience from the authors is that in order to make DfE truly utilized, it must become a \"living part\" of the company. To reach this point, it is important to obtain a strong commitment not only from the manufacturing company's management, but also from other DfE stakeholders throughout the company, at both the strategic and operational levels. DfE initiatives must be considered as a strategic issue and an investment in increased competitiveness. When summarizing all the experiences presented in this paper, a conclusion is that manufacturing companies often have a need for a general model that focuses on how to make \"DfE thinking\" a natural part of the company's way of doing business","PeriodicalId":383623,"journal":{"name":"2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114777699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619365
T. Nishiyama, F. Takiuchi, K. Ando, M. Arisawa
In Japan, it has been becoming necessary to improve transportation environments suitable for elderly people and physically challenged people. But basic solutions based on an improvement in many infrastructures have political, economical and ecological limitations. So, we have to make other social strategies for creating universal transportation environments for the future. In this research, we had three persons disabled in their legs use "iBOT™", a transporter which empowers you to climb curbs and easily traverse grass gravel, sand, mud, puddles and other forms of uneven terrain and enables you to climb up and down stairs. As a result, it has been clarified that "iBOT™" gives them the following ideas: (A) lengthening average time needed in traveling, (B) diversifying their purposes of traveling (C) giving them more chances to travel without using buses and their own cars. Moreover this study has clarified the social interface of "iBOT™" and some technical points for improvement in Japan. We suggest a new solution for creating efficient and ecological universal transport environments by using the future wheelchairs.
{"title":"The Functional Evaluation of Future Wheelchairs Contributing to Ecological Aid in Traveling","authors":"T. Nishiyama, F. Takiuchi, K. Ando, M. Arisawa","doi":"10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619365","url":null,"abstract":"In Japan, it has been becoming necessary to improve transportation environments suitable for elderly people and physically challenged people. But basic solutions based on an improvement in many infrastructures have political, economical and ecological limitations. So, we have to make other social strategies for creating universal transportation environments for the future. In this research, we had three persons disabled in their legs use \"iBOT™\", a transporter which empowers you to climb curbs and easily traverse grass gravel, sand, mud, puddles and other forms of uneven terrain and enables you to climb up and down stairs. As a result, it has been clarified that \"iBOT™\" gives them the following ideas: (A) lengthening average time needed in traveling, (B) diversifying their purposes of traveling (C) giving them more chances to travel without using buses and their own cars. Moreover this study has clarified the social interface of \"iBOT™\" and some technical points for improvement in Japan. We suggest a new solution for creating efficient and ecological universal transport environments by using the future wheelchairs.","PeriodicalId":383623,"journal":{"name":"2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126873100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619151
H. Komiyama
An indispensable approach for realizing the sustainable society is to propose and discuss visions that indicate directions of our society and technological development. I have proposed Vision 2050 that suggests requirements for constructing the sustainable society in terms of energy and material circulation. Japan has confronted emerging issues, including the environmental contamination, shortage of energy resources, and shortage of final disposal sites, as a front-runner of the world and these issues are getting severer and severer especially in Asia. In this sense, Japan should work as a front-runner in EcoDesign area so that Asian countries can absorb various hints for solving these problems. And one of the key technologies is "structuring knowledge."
{"title":"Vision 2050 and the Role of Japan toward the Sustainable Society","authors":"H. Komiyama","doi":"10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619151","url":null,"abstract":"An indispensable approach for realizing the sustainable society is to propose and discuss visions that indicate directions of our society and technological development. I have proposed Vision 2050 that suggests requirements for constructing the sustainable society in terms of energy and material circulation. Japan has confronted emerging issues, including the environmental contamination, shortage of energy resources, and shortage of final disposal sites, as a front-runner of the world and these issues are getting severer and severer especially in Asia. In this sense, Japan should work as a front-runner in EcoDesign area so that Asian countries can absorb various hints for solving these problems. And one of the key technologies is \"structuring knowledge.\"","PeriodicalId":383623,"journal":{"name":"2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127180759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619183
Y. Horikoshi, T. Hashitani, M. Kutami, K. Yazaki, Y. Ando
This paper assesses the life-cycle of packaging materials designed to protect large-scale integration devices from shock and static electricity when they are transported from semiconductor factories to printed-circuit-board factories. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted during production and incineration was reduced by 11% when embossed plastic tape packaging made from non-renewable sources was replaced by material made from bio-based polymer
{"title":"Life-cycle Assessment of LSI Packaging Embossed Tape Made from Bio-based Polymer","authors":"Y. Horikoshi, T. Hashitani, M. Kutami, K. Yazaki, Y. Ando","doi":"10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619183","url":null,"abstract":"This paper assesses the life-cycle of packaging materials designed to protect large-scale integration devices from shock and static electricity when they are transported from semiconductor factories to printed-circuit-board factories. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted during production and incineration was reduced by 11% when embossed plastic tape packaging made from non-renewable sources was replaced by material made from bio-based polymer","PeriodicalId":383623,"journal":{"name":"2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing","volume":"90 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131672718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619251
H. Komoto, Tetsuo Tomiyama, M. Nagel, S. Silvester, H. Brezet
Product Service System (PSS) concept aims at minimization of environmental impacts with alternative form of product utilizations and services, while maintaining enterprises economical performance and service quality for users. In this study, a methodology to analyze PSSs with life cycle simulation is proposed. This approach enables the authors to systematically describe diversity in form of PSSs, and to evaluate and compare alternative PSSs from environmental and economic perspective. Case studies quantitatively imply the feasibility of further sustainable PSS by integrating existing PSSs
产品服务系统(Product Service System, PSS)的概念旨在通过替代形式的产品利用和服务,最大限度地减少对环境的影响,同时保持企业的经济效益和为用户提供的服务质量。本文提出了一种基于生命周期模拟的pss分析方法。该方法使作者能够系统地描述pss形式的多样性,并从环境和经济角度评估和比较不同的pss。个案研究在数量上暗示了通过整合现有的可持续的公共服务支助指标进一步可持续的可行性
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Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619301
M. Noguchi, K. Nomura, K. Narita, M. Ozaki, O. Ueda, Y. Yamagishi
A novel evaluation technique for RoHS-related hazardous substances has been developed. Using this technique, we can nondestructively find out electronic components and circuit board assemblies which contain the prohibited lead and/or cadmium. This technique enables us to evaluate the hazardous substances in these products for adapting RoHS directive with high efficiency
{"title":"A novel evaluation technique for hazardous substances in electronic components and circuit board assemblies complying with the EU-RoHS directive","authors":"M. Noguchi, K. Nomura, K. Narita, M. Ozaki, O. Ueda, Y. Yamagishi","doi":"10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619301","url":null,"abstract":"A novel evaluation technique for RoHS-related hazardous substances has been developed. Using this technique, we can nondestructively find out electronic components and circuit board assemblies which contain the prohibited lead and/or cadmium. This technique enables us to evaluate the hazardous substances in these products for adapting RoHS directive with high efficiency","PeriodicalId":383623,"journal":{"name":"2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121320263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619348
A. Hu, Sin-How Shih, C. Hsu, C. Tseng
This study examines both economic and environmental performance of an industrial park using the eco-efficiency indicator framework. The case study involves Chang Hua Coastal Industrial Park (CHCIP) and its surrounding area in central Taiwan. An eco-industrial cluster consisting of seven companies and anchoring a large steel mill was identified for recovering of waste generated into construction materials. (It was referred to as being 'eco-industrialization' hereinafter). The eco-efficiency of individual companies and the overall eco-efficiency of the total system were quantified using one economic indicator (after-tax profit) and five environmental indicators (energy consumption, water consumption, raw material consumption, CO2 emission, and total waste generated). Five eco-efficiency ratios were estimated under three scenarios of the park: before the clustering system is formed, after the clustering system is formed, and a future optimum scenario (i.e. for situations the goal of "zero emissions" is being achieved). Results of this study demonstrate that overall eco-efficiency of the cluster following eco-industrialization could result in increases of up to 30-40% over the pre-eco-industrialized level
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Pub Date : 2005-12-12DOI: 10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619234
M. Shibasaki, N. Warburg, P. Eyerer
Today, solar energy is seen as one of the auspicious renewable energy sources. At the beginning of solar cells history in the 1950th, solar cells were labeled as adverse due to their high energy payback time and low efficiency, therefore their application were limited to aeronautic and astronautic fields as well as to small applications such as pocket calculators. Recent developments resulted in the improvement of the energy efficiency of solar cell modules, as a result, the solar cell modules became more competitive to other renewable energy resources. In this paper the EU funded project SENSE is presented, which aim is to develop a recycling system for thin film solar cells. An accompanying LCA study shows the environmental impact of the considered solar cell systems
{"title":"Recycling of Thin Film Solar Cell Modules — LCA and ECO2 Case Study","authors":"M. Shibasaki, N. Warburg, P. Eyerer","doi":"10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619234","url":null,"abstract":"Today, solar energy is seen as one of the auspicious renewable energy sources. At the beginning of solar cells history in the 1950th, solar cells were labeled as adverse due to their high energy payback time and low efficiency, therefore their application were limited to aeronautic and astronautic fields as well as to small applications such as pocket calculators. Recent developments resulted in the improvement of the energy efficiency of solar cell modules, as a result, the solar cell modules became more competitive to other renewable energy resources. In this paper the EU funded project SENSE is presented, which aim is to develop a recycling system for thin film solar cells. An accompanying LCA study shows the environmental impact of the considered solar cell systems","PeriodicalId":383623,"journal":{"name":"2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131242127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}