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The main objective of the SEES project was to develop sustainable, clean, cost- and eco-effective electrical and electronic system (EES) prototypes and dismantling/recycling processes to increase the vehicle recovery/reuse rate. SEES studies focused on the EES materials to identify sustainable end-of-life scenarios and to develop new EES design concepts to contribute towards sustainability.
Innovative EES and plastic recycling schemes are to be developed considering economic and environmental aspects over the whole life cycle. The new EES design concept will include prototyping specific functions or parts. The new design concept is not limited to improve end-of-life aspects because use phase and production proved to be much more relevant from a life-cycle perspective.
During the project, results from environmental and dismantling studies demonstrated the limited improvement potential by focusing on dismantling and end-of-life aspects of EES. Therefore, the focus of the objectives has switched slightly from a focus on end-of-life related actions to a more holistic approach covering the whole life cycle as described above.
The project supports the objectives of the Sustainable Surface Transport Priority providing strategies and processes to clean dismantling and recycling of vehicles. SEES improves the competitiveness of the recycling value chain (from collectors, shredders, dismantlers to EES/plastics/metal recyclers), most of them SMEs. It also increases the competitiveness of EES manufacturers due to the benefit of the 'recyclable' product and reduces the costs associated with end-of-life car treatment. SEES helps to minimise life cycle impacts, raw material consumption and waste disposal (landfill/incineration). Findings will be communicated inside and outside the project consortium to improve the skills of the involved stakeholders. SEES also contributes to standardisation activities on dismantling, eco-design and life-cycle costing on international, European and company level.
The main products of the SEES project are:
- investigation of the optimal transport, dismantling and shredding procedures for the automotive EES through real tests;
- demonstration of metal and plastic recycling technologies for automotive EES incl. value added applications of the recycled materials;
- environmental and economic assessment of the EES life cycle steps using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) methodologies;
- specific methodologies and a software tool to assess end-of-life scenarios and recyclability;
-recoverability of EES products;
-eco-design guidelines to improve future EES designs towards sustainability;
- new EES concepts and specific parts/functions prototypes to improve sustainability of EES.
In an industry-wide context, the achievements of the SEES project are expected to have the following impacts:
- improve sustainability of EES products and processes,
- favour metal and plastic recycling processes for automotive EES to increase recovery and reuse rate,
- reduce resource consumption and quantity of auto shredding residue (ASR) that goes to landfill,
- reduce the costs associated with end-of-life processes of automotive EES,
- increase the competitiveness of European automotive EES designers, producers, dismantlers and recyclers,
- contribution to standards (dismantling procedure for EES, Design for Environment Guidelines for EES, Life Cycle Costing Methodology).
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