Damage assessment of human health for lead-free solder based on endpoint-type LCIA methodology

Author

Itsubo, Norihiro ; Noh, Jaesung ; Hayashi, Kentaro ; Inaba, Atsushi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

836

Lastpage

837

Abstract

The concern with lead-free solder has been growing to minimize the exposure of lead in these years. LCIA methodology enabled us to consider three steps of LCIA; characterization, damage assessment and weighting. We concentrated on damage assessment of human health that enables us to integrate various diseases generated by several impact. This paper was intended to detect the significant process and substance that dominate the environmental impact caused by lead-free solder from the result of damage assessment in order to improve environmental performance of lead-free solder effectively.

Keywords

copper alloys; environmental degradation; environmental factors; health and safety; silver alloys; solders; tin alloys; zinc alloys; SnAgCu; SnZn; damage assessment; disease integration; endpoint type LCIA methodology; environmental degradation; environmental impact; human health; lead free solder; Copper alloys; Environmental factors; Silver alloys; Tin alloys; Zinc alloys;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8590-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322783

Filename

1322783