Autor según el artículo: Boer D; Segarra M; Fernández A; Vallès M; Mateu C; Cabeza L

Departamento: Enginyeria Mecànica

Autor/es de la URV: Boer, Dieter-Thomas / Vallès Rasquera, Joan Manel

Palabras clave: Thermal energy storage Recycling Recipe Life cycle assessment Circular economy

Resumen: © 2020 Elsevier Ltd The objective of this study is to establish an initial framework to evaluate and improve the sustainability of technologies integrating thermal energy storage to come closer to a circular economy. This is applied to a case study for a building-like cubicle that includes different options of phase change materials. For the construction of a cubicle, materials can come from ores and virgin or recycled feedstock. In order to decrease the impact of materials and approach to a circular economy, the recycled content of materials at the start of life should be as high as possible. This recycled fraction in current supply depends on the available technologies for reintroducing the recycled materials in the production processes, together with virgin materials coming from primary sources. The results of the analysis show that the decrease of the environmental impact of recycling at the end of life is lower than 5%, while using recycled materials replacing virgin raw materials could reduce the overall impact by up to 30%. Most relevant materials are bricks, steel, and aluminum. Thus, reuse and recycling of materials and components must be integrated into the initial design in order to come closer to the concept of circular economy.

Áreas temáticas: Renewable energy, sustainability and the environment Química Materiais Interdisciplinar Green & sustainable science & technology Geografía Geociências Farmacia Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Energy & fuels Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Arquitetura, urbanismo e design Arquitetura e urbanismo Administração, ciências contábeis e turismo Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo

ISSN: 09601481

Direcció de correo del autor: manel.valles@urv.cat dieter.boer@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-0748-1287 0000-0002-5532-6409

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-26

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960148119319755

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Renewable Energy. 150 589-597

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Boer D; Segarra M; Fernández A; Vallès M; Mateu C; Cabeza L (2020). Approach for the analysis of TES technologies aiming towards a circular economy: Case study of building-like cubicles. Renewable Energy, 150(), 589-597. DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.103

DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.103

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2020

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications