Automotive soft tonneau cover life cycle assessment

• Autor(a) principal: Rech, Cristiane de Brito
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ritter, Carla Eliana Todero
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Produção Online
• Texto Completo: https://www.producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/4198
• topic: Environment. Environmental Management. Sustainability. Life Cycle. Soft Tonneau Cover.; Meio ambiente. Gestão Ambiental; Sustentabilidade. Ciclo de Vida. Capota Marítima.

Product Life Cycle Assessment is an Environmental Management tool used to survey significant environmental aspects and impacts of products, not only considering their production process. Product system inputs, subsystems involved and outputs until end-use and disposal are considered in this assessment. In this research we studied the requirements of ISO Standards: NBR 14.040, 14.041 and 14.001 that regulate the application of this tool to understand the methods used, as well as its scope and limitations. The SimaPro software was used to build the life cycle inventory and calculate the significant environmental impacts of an automotive soft tonneau cover produced in the southern region of Brazil. The study identified that the aluminum parts per unit produced had a greater impact on the emission of 71.7 kg of CO2 eq, contributing to the greenhouse effect. When they were replaced by nylon, there was a 30.74% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. The G2G carbon footprint of the hood is equivalent to 1.09 kg CO2, only 2.65% of the impact generated by the soft tonneau cover.