Integration of life cycle assessment and life cycle costing for the eco-design of rubber products.

ABSTRACT: Rubber hoses are a category of rubber products that are widely and intensively employed in construction sites for concrete conveying. There has been lack of study to investigate the life cycle environmental and economic impacts of the rubber hoses as an industrial product. In this study, we analyze four types of rubber hoses with the inner layer made of different rubber composites to resist abrasion, i.e., Baseline, S-I, S-II and S-III. Tests of the wear resistance are carried out in the laboratory and S-III shows high abrasion resisting performance with the concrete conveying volume up to 20,000 m³ during the service life. Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) models are established for evaluating the four types of rubber hoses. A target function is developed

SUBMITTER: Dong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8755712 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature