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<p>The current drive towards including renewable and sustainable energy sources into energy consumption mix implies thorough studies on savings in materials, energy and waste management. Life cycle analyses are concerned with identification and quantification of each inputs and outputs of a product manufacturing process. This paper proposes complex life cycle analyses, that include assessment on inventory, analyses of energy payback time, life cycle cost and end of life applied to solar thermal collectors, as part of a solar conversion system. Results show that the categories with most impact, besides terrestrial toxicity, are human health, global warming and depletion of fossil fuels, that is, the main reasons to implement renewable energy sources.</p>
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The current drive towards including renewable and sustainable energy sources into energy consumption mix implies thorough studies on savings in materials, energy and waste management. Life cycle analyses are concerned with identification and quantification of each inputs and outputs of a product manufacturing process. This paper proposes complex life cycle analyses, that include assessment on inventory, analyses of energy payback time, life cycle cost and end of life applied to solar thermal collectors, as part of a solar conversion system. Results show that the categories with most impact, besides terrestrial toxicity, are human health, global warming and depletion of fossil fuels, that is, the main reasons to implement renewable energy sources.

Life Cycle Analyses for Solar Thermal Collectors

“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi

Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iași. Machine constructions Section

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The current drive towards including renewable and sustainable energy sources into energy consumption mix implies thorough studies on savings in materials,...

Life Cycle Analyses for Solar Thermal Collectors

Publié en ligne: 09 mai 2022

Pages: 89 - 98

Reçu: 24 mars 2022

Accepté: 31 mars 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipcm-2022-0007

Mots clés
Life cycle analysis, thermal collectors, environmental impact, energy payback time

© 2022 Ana-Georgiana Lupu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Life Cycle Analyses for Solar Thermal Collectors

Publié en ligne: 09 mai 2022

Pages: 89 - 98

Reçu: 24 mars 2022

Accepté: 31 mars 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipcm-2022-0007

Mots clésLife cycle analysis, thermal collectors, environmental impact, energy payback time

© 2022 Ana-Georgiana Lupu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Life cycle analysis, thermal collectors, environmental impact, energy payback time