Holistic modeling and evaluation of material recovery from materially-complex end-of-life vehicles

Material recovery is a key lever to promote a sustainable materials recycling system. By capturing materials from end-of-life products and substituting primary with secondary material production, society can reduce the depletion of natural resources and prevent the accumulation of valuable materials in landfills. Material recovery from materially-complex products, such as vehicles, is becoming more challenging as the material mixture becomes more heterogeneous with new trends in lightweight materials and product designs. The goals of this thesis are to develop a holistic modeling framework for material recovery for end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and to illustrate the application of this framework to evaluate the recovery performance for current ELVs and future lightweight ELVs, using an existing material recovery infrastructure.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Ip Kiun Chong, Karine.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Stephen C. Graves.

• Mechanical Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123771

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123771