C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S

to Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Vi Kie Soo
for winning the LEO Award
at the 2018 CIRP Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) Conference,
most recently held in Denmark in May.

 

The 2018 LCE Conference theme focused on the role that engineering must play in the achievement of
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for a more sustainable world by the year 2030.

 

 

 

To meet these Sustainable Development Goals we need to develop Life Cycle Engineering from technological eco-efficiency to technology that supports a world that is sustainable in absolute terms – not just better but good enough!

 

 

 

Dr. Soo’s award winning conference paper The Impact of Joining Choices on Vehicle Recycling Systems abstract can be found below…

Abstract

Stricter vehicle emissions legislation has driven significant reduction in environmental impact of the vehicle use phase through increasing use of lightweight materials and multi-material concepts to reduce the vehicle mass. The joining techniques used for multi-material designs has led to reduced efficiency of the current shredder-based recycling practices. Although the commonly used Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method is effective in assessing the environmental impacts of vehicles, there is a lack of consideration for the changing material and joining trends, and their delayed impact on the end-of-life vehicles (ELV) recyclability. This paper evaluates the temporal effects between vehicle designs and recycling phases using the System Dynamics approach. The behavioural patterns of the vehicle recycling systems show that the commonly used multi-material joining choices have led to increasing impurities and valuable material losses during ELV recycling, that can be characterised to well-known system archetypes: “Fixes that Fail” and “Shifting the Burden”.
© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Vi Kie Soo *, Paul Compston, Matthew Doolan; Research School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

http://www.lce2018.dk/