Ecodesign of Liquid Fuel Tanks

Jana Gicevska; Gatis Bazbauers; Mara Repele

doi:10.2478/v10145-011-0002-6

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Ecodesign of Liquid Fuel Tanks

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Volume 6 (2011): Issue -1 (June 2011)

By: Jana Gicevska, Gatis Bazbauers and Mara Repele

Open Access

|Jan 2012

Abstract

The subject of the study is a 10 litre liquid fuel tank made of metal and used for fuel storage and transportation. The study dealt with separate life cycle stages of this product, compared environmental impacts of similar fuel tanks made of metal and plastic, as well as analysed the product's end-of-life cycle stage, studying the waste treatment and disposal scenarios. The aim of this study was to find opportunities for improvement and to develop proposals for the ecodesign of 10 litre liquid fuel tank.

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