Research Publications

The life cycle design framework was applied to photovoltaic module design. Two metrics were used to assess life cycle energy performance of a PV module: energy payback time and electricity production ...

Life cycle design (LCD) is a framework for designing product systems which are both economically and ecologically sustainable. Key elements of this framework are systems analysis, multicriteria ana...

The life cycle design framework developed at the University of Michigan was applied by AlliedSignal to improve the manufacture, use, and end-of-life management of automobile oil filters. Three oil ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan applied their life cycle design framework in a research project with Optical Imaging Systems (OIS). OIS is a US manufacturer of high-performance, active-matri...

INTRODUCTION Former journal title: Water Resources Update, until June 2004 On September 26, 1968, the National Water Commission (NWC) was established in the United States as a consequence o...

Product design offers tremendous opportunities for achieving pollution prevention. Through integration of environmental requirements into the earliest stages of product development, adverse environmen...

Most people don't think about how their clothes are going to be cleaned when they drop them off at a neighborhood dry cleaner. They are only interested in receiving professionally cleaned and pressed ...

This document offers a guidance and practical experience for integrating environmental considerations into product system development. Life cycle design seeks to minimize the environmental burden a...

Life cycle design is a proactive approach for integrating pollution prevention and resource conservation strategies into the development of more ecologically and economically sustainable product sy...

The life cycle design framework developed at the University of Michigan guides the integration of environmental requirements into the manufacturing, use, and end-of-life stages of a product system....

The environmental profile of goods and services that satisfy our individual and societal needs is shaped by design activities. Substantial evidence suggests that current patterns of human activity ...

This paper explores the practical application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to product system development. While life cycle assessment methods have been studied and demonstrated extensively over t...

Integrating environmental requirements into the earliest stages of design is a fundamental component of product life cycle management. Still, there is much work to be done to help industry practice th...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory and the University of Michigan are cooperating in a project to reduce environmental impacts and health risks thro...

This case study documents successful waste reduction programs at McPherson Hospital in Howell, Michigan. McPherson Hospital's source reduction and recycling practices can serve as a model for other ho...

This case study documents waste reduction by the Packard store of the People's Food Cooperative (PFC) in Ann Arbor. Process and economic analyses are done to compare sales procedures for two bulk liqu...

This is the second of a two-part article (part one appears in J. Environmental Systems, Vol. 20(4), pp. 343-357, 1990-91) documenting five case studies of successful solid waste source reduction pr...

This is the first of two articles presenting case studies of successful solid waste source reduction programs at five businesses. Both process and economic analyses were performed for each case stu...