26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-10.6.4 (AIAA 2008-8906 )

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF ALUMINIUM FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATION

X. Tan, Y. Xu, J. Wang, R. Curran, S. Raghunathan, D. Gore*, J. Doherty**
Queens Univ. Belfast, UK; *Airbus, UK; **QinetiQ, UK

Keywords: LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF ALUMINIUM

This paper proposes a methodology to developing a module for COSTing Life-cycle In material ProcesseS (COSTLIPS). A life cycle assessment and example estimating results for typical processes of aluminium for aircrafts are presented. The estimated outputs are not only processing costs, but also input and output materials, consumed energy, and emitted wastes.

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