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http://dx.doi.org/10.7464/ksct.2012.18.3.301

Environmental Assessment of Chemically Strengthened Glass for Touch Screen Panel by Material Life Cycle Assessment  

Lee, Na-Ri (Department of Materials Science and Engineering/Research Center for Sustainable Eco-Devices and Materials (ReSEM), Korea National University of Transportation)
Lee, Soo-Sun (Department of Materials Science and Engineering/Research Center for Sustainable Eco-Devices and Materials (ReSEM), Korea National University of Transportation)
Kim, Kyeong-Il (Department of Materials Science and Engineering/Research Center for Sustainable Eco-Devices and Materials (ReSEM), Korea National University of Transportation)
Hong, Tae-Whan (Department of Materials Science and Engineering/Research Center for Sustainable Eco-Devices and Materials (ReSEM), Korea National University of Transportation)
Publication Information
Clean Technology / v.18, no.3, 2012 , pp. 301-306 More about this Journal
Abstract
Rapidly growing mobile machines such as tablet PC and smart phone are equipped with touch screen panel using a sturdy material for products surface protection. Therefore, surge of chemically strengthened glass was increased and the amount of waste matter is proportional to demand. The purpose of this study is environmental impact assessment on touch screen panel of chemically strengthened glass by material life cycle assessment (MLCA). We used CES of Granta, SimaPro and Gabi software for MLCA. Chemically strengthened glass (2.7, 5.7 and 10.3 inch) was calculated to environmental impact assessment by Granta software under two cases. One case is Landfill and the other case is Reuse. As a result, in case of reuse, energy values of 2.7, 5.7 and 10.3 inches were reduced by an average of 51.4%, $CO_2$ values were reduced by an average of 46.6% than Landfill case, respectively. We assessed impact categories of 11 types using SimaPro software. As a result, the contents of fossil fuels, inorganics and climate change have a huge impact than the other impact categories. And the main cause of environmental impact is antimony and hydrogen fluoride in Gabi results.
Keywords
Material life cycle assessment (MLCA); Touch screen panel (TSP); Chemically strengthened glass; Impact; categories;
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