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Environmental considerations on battery-housing recovery

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A simplified LCA is conducted hased on the methodology of simplified LCAs according to SETAC (Europe). The case study is about the recovery of automotive battery housings. As a result of the simplified LCA, the current situation of material recycling is preferred to the past situation of landfilling. However, energy recovery could be an option, too.

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  1. Ford Motor Co., Vehicle Environmental Engineering, Germany

    Wulf-Peter Schmidt & Hans-Martin Beyer

  2. Vehicle Environmental Engineering (Europe), Ford Werke, D-E/PF-2, Henry Ford Str. 1, D-50725 Köln, Germany

    Wulf-Peter Schmidt

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Schmidt, WP., Beyer, HM. Environmental considerations on battery-housing recovery. Int. J. LCA 4, 107–112 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02979410

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