期刊
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
卷 21, 期 -, 页码 S49-S68出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12629
关键词
additive manufacturing; energy efficiency; industrial ecology; resource efficiency; sustainability; 3D printing
资金
- KU Leuven via GOA SUMMA (Sustainable Materials processing in Manufacturing) project [3E140361]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I033335/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I033335/2] Funding Source: UKRI
Additive manufacturing (AM) proposes a novel paradigm for engineering design and manufacturing, which has profound economic, environmental, and security implications. The design freedom offered by this category of manufacturing processes and its ability to locally print almost each designable object will have important repercussions across society. While AM applications are progressing from rapid prototyping to the production of end-use products, the environmental dimensions and related impacts of these evolving manufacturing processes have yet to be extensively examined. Only limited quantitative data are available on how AM manufactured products compare to conventionally manufactured ones in terms of energy and material consumption, transportation costs, pollution and waste, health and safety issues, as well as other environmental impacts over their full lifetime. Reported research indicates that the specific energy of current AM systems is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude higher compared to that of conventional manufacturing processes. However, only part of the AM process taxonomy is yet documented in terms of its environmental performance, and most life cycle inventory (LCI) efforts mainly focus on energy consumption. From an environmental perspective, AM manufactured parts can be beneficial for very small batches, or in cases where AM-based redesigns offer substantial functional advantages during the product use phase (e.g., lightweight part designs and part remanufacturing). Important pending research questions include the LCI of AM feedstock production, supply-chain consequences, and health and safety issues relating to AM.
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