Product carbon footprint for product life cycle under uncertainty

Product carbon footprint has a profound impact on the sustainable manufacturing. Due to the uncertainty of product information, it is a crucial issue to estimate product carbon footprint for product life cycle. The paper is devoted to the product carbon footprint estimation model based on the unasce...

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Published in:Journal of cleaner production 2018-06, Vol.187, p.459-472
Main Authors: He, Bin, Pan, Qijun, Deng, Zhongqiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Carbon footprint
Exoskeleton robotics
Product life cycle
Sustainable design
Uncertainty
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Summary:Product carbon footprint has a profound impact on the sustainable manufacturing. Due to the uncertainty of product information, it is a crucial issue to estimate product carbon footprint for product life cycle. The paper is devoted to the product carbon footprint estimation model based on the unascertained mathematics theory. After the introduction of unascertained mathematics theory, the integration of the estimation data through unascertained number is discussed in detail. After the model of product carbon footprint for product life cycle is proposed, the estimation method of carbon footprint in the product life cycle based on the unascertained number model is discussed in detail. The product carbon footprint of a modular underactuated exoskeleton robot mechanism is given as an example to demonstrate the proposed methodology. •Modeling product carbon footprint for product life cycle under uncertainty.•Integrate estimation data to model product carbon footprint.•Unascertained number model-based product carbon footprint evaluation.
ISSN:0959-6526
1879-1786
DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.246