Life Cycle Assessment of Microwave Activated Hot-Melt Adhesives

2018 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical And Power Engineering (EPE) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI:10.1109/ICEPE.2018.8559740

A. La Rosa, G. Ursan, Mihaela Aradoaei, Maria Ursan, C. Schreiner

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A comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) is presented to evaluate the environmental impacts of two adhesive technologies: the traditional hot-melt adhesive production and the Microwave(MW) activatable hot-melt adhesives. This technology is very useful for the creation of reversible adhesive suitable formany applications in various industries including the automotive and the aerospace industry. The LCA was performed to quantify and verify the environmental impacts of all the involved processes. The main advantages of this new class of adhesives are mainly, the energy reduction during the production phase (as the electromagnetic activation occurs in few seconds) and the possibility of recycling the bonded components at the end of life. This is because the MW/RF-activatable adhesives are reversible, as they can be re-melt through the MW/RF irradiation, without heating the bonded components, which could be easily disassembled and recycled. The LCA was carried out according to the ISO14040 and 14044,using the Simapro 8.05.13 software coupled with the Ecoinvent 3 database.

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微波活化热熔胶的生命周期评价

采用比较生命周期评价(LCA)方法对传统热熔胶生产和微波活化热熔胶两种胶粘剂工艺的环境影响进行了评价。这项技术对于制造可逆粘合剂非常有用，适用于包括汽车和航空航天工业在内的各个行业的许多应用。进行生命周期分析是为了量化和验证所有相关过程的环境影响。这种新型粘合剂的主要优点是，在生产阶段(因为电磁激活在几秒钟内发生)降低了能量，并且在使用寿命结束时可以回收粘合组件。这是因为MW/RF可活化粘合剂是可逆的，因为它们可以通过MW/RF辐照重新熔化，而无需加热粘合组件，这可以很容易地拆卸和回收。LCA根据ISO14040和14044进行，使用Simapro 8.05.13软件与Ecoinvent 3数据库相结合。

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