TY - GEN
T1 - LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF OIL ‘HYDRAULIC’ SYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY-SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS
AU - Burrows, Clifford R.
AU - Hammond, Geoffrey P.
AU - McManus, Marcelle C.
N1 - Funding Information:
(GPH), and natural environmental science (MCM). It forms part of a major research programme funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to support the Engineering Design Centre for Fluid Power Systems at Bath (grant GR/L26858). This study has been greatly assisted by the provision of operational data on mobile forestry machinery by the Forestry Commission in the UK. The authors are grateful for the care with which Mrs Heather Gotland prepared the typescript and Mrs Gill Green prepared the main figures.
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PY - 2022/1/31
Y1 - 2022/1/31
N2 - Life-cycle assessment (LCA) techniques have been used in order to evaluate the environmental impact of conventional oil ‘hydraulic’ systems in an ecologically-sensitive application; that of mobile forestry machinery typical of modem European design. A single-grip ‘harvester’ employed for logging and a ‘forwarder’ that subsequently transports the felled and cut-to-length timber out of the forest are analysed. The results of this indicative LCA provide insights into the relative magnitude of the complex range of environmental impacts arising from fluid power systems and their parent vehicles in the forestry context. It also suggests areas for future research, principally on the impact of diesel fuel and hydraulic oil (including their additives) on the forest ecosystem, on the balance between local, regional and global environmental effects, and on the developing methods of LCA itself.
AB - Life-cycle assessment (LCA) techniques have been used in order to evaluate the environmental impact of conventional oil ‘hydraulic’ systems in an ecologically-sensitive application; that of mobile forestry machinery typical of modem European design. A single-grip ‘harvester’ employed for logging and a ‘forwarder’ that subsequently transports the felled and cut-to-length timber out of the forest are analysed. The results of this indicative LCA provide insights into the relative magnitude of the complex range of environmental impacts arising from fluid power systems and their parent vehicles in the forestry context. It also suggests areas for future research, principally on the impact of diesel fuel and hydraulic oil (including their additives) on the forest ecosystem, on the balance between local, regional and global environmental effects, and on the developing methods of LCA itself.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE1998-0472
DO - 10.1115/IMECE1998-0472
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85124345219
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 61
EP - 68
BT - Fluid Power Systems and Technology
PB - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)
T2 - ASME 1998 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1998
Y2 - 15 November 1998 through 20 November 1998
ER -
