A tool to estimate materials and manufacturing energy for a product

This study proposes an easy-to-use methodology to estimate the materials embodied energy and manufacturing energy for a product. The tool requires as input the product's Bill of Materials and the knowledge on how these materials are processed (or an educated guess); the resulting output represe...

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Main Authors: Duque Ciceri, Natalia (Contributor), Gutowski, Timothy G. (Contributor), Garetti, M. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012-05-24T14:30:12Z.
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