The Effect of Consumer Behaviour on the Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Efficient Lighting Technologies

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• 作者：Zhe Ying Yu ; Vi Kie Soo ; Matthew Doolan ; ^{matthew.doolan@anu.edu.au" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Life Cycle Assessment ; energy efficiency ; light globe ; consumer behaviour ; use case
• 刊名：Procedia CIRP
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：40
• 期：Complete
• 页码：185-190
• 全文大小：151 K

文摘

Energy efficient lamps offer significant energy savings throughout their life. However, there is a variety of energy saving lamps available and it is unclear which impacts the environment least throughout the lifecycle under different use patterns. Different use patterns have a significant impact on the lifetime of each light globe alternative and therefore affect the life cycle impact of each globe.

This paper undertakes a series of Life Cycle Assessments on two alternative lighting choices (Light Emitting Diodes and Compact Florescent Lamps) under a range of use conditions. It was found that the environmental impacts were comparable for CFLs and LEDs, though significantly less than traditional incandescent, for a range of different use cases. The sensitivity analysis carried out shows that the variation in lamp parameters has a far greater effect on the lifecycle impact rather than the use patterns.