MRO isn’t just about safety; it’s about making aircraft last, reusing materials, and spreading their footprint over decades of service. To achieve this, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of the powerful tools in our toolbox.
What is Life Cycle Assessment?
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What is Life Cycle Assessment?
MRO isn’t just about safety; it’s about making aircraft last, reusing materials, and spreading their footprint over decades of service. To achieve this, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of the powerful tools in our toolbox.
The research area Environmental and Circularity Analysis is embedded within the department Product Lifecycle Management, where it develops innovative strategies for sustainability by applying environmental life cycle assessment and circular economy concepts across the aerospace product life cycle.
Using life cycle assessment, we conduct detailed environmental evaluations of aerospace systems with a particular focus on maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO). Central to this work are life cycle inventories specifically tailored to aeronautic applications, addressing the unique materials and emission patterns encountered by products operating in these environments.
Our research on circular economy contributes to the development of assessment methodologies for circularity-driven design. We focus on foresight strategies to address the availability, reuse, and sustainable management of critical raw materials essential to the aerospace industry.
We perform scenario analyses of technical and operational strategies to evaluate their environmental and circular economy impacts, supporting informed decisions on end-of-life management and lifetime extension of aerospace products. Insights gained from these analyses can be fed back into the early design phases, helping to optimise future aerospace products for sustainability and circularity.
Key Topics
Applied Lifecycle Assessment
Lifecycle Assessment for aerospace vehicles with focus on MRO
Development of aviation-specific and MRO-driven lifecycle inventories
Integration of multi-facetted environmental metrics in lifecycle evaluation
Circular Economy in MRO
Analysis of Circular Economy strategies for aviation and MRO
Development of assessment methodologies for circularity-driven design
Foresight strategies for critical materials in aviation
End of Life and Decision-Making
Scenario-analysis of technical-operation strategies considering environmental and circular impacts
Support and Guidance for End-of-Life and Lifetime Extension Decisions
Feedback of insights into early design of aerospace vehicles
