TY - GEN
T1 - Balancing material and exergy flows for a PCB soldering process
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2010
AU - Saiganesh, Subramaniam
AU - Sekulic, Dusan P.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Use of thermodynamics metrics (e.g. exergy) as sustainability analysis tools offers an insight into energy resources use in both energy and non-energy technologies. This study is devoted to an analysis of material, energy and exergy flows along a manufacturing line of a PCB-based products' manufacturing operation. It is observed that a large quantity of available energy is inherently dissipated even if a state-of-the-art process is adopted. Drastic change in an approach towards developing new, transformational technologies are mandatory if a sustainable development is to be achieved through improvements of resources use. These changes may be guided by an insight obtained through thermodynamics metrics studies.
AB - Use of thermodynamics metrics (e.g. exergy) as sustainability analysis tools offers an insight into energy resources use in both energy and non-energy technologies. This study is devoted to an analysis of material, energy and exergy flows along a manufacturing line of a PCB-based products' manufacturing operation. It is observed that a large quantity of available energy is inherently dissipated even if a state-of-the-art process is adopted. Drastic change in an approach towards developing new, transformational technologies are mandatory if a sustainable development is to be achieved through improvements of resources use. These changes may be guided by an insight obtained through thermodynamics metrics studies.
KW - Exergy analysis
KW - Manufacturing
KW - PCB
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U2 - 10.1109/ISSST.2010.5507708
DO - 10.1109/ISSST.2010.5507708
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955108828
SN - 9781424470938
T3 - Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2010
BT - Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2010
Y2 - 17 May 2010 through 19 May 2010
ER -