The Study On End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) Management Based On Green Manufacturing

Vehicle industry is a big business and is developing quickly in recent years in the world, especially in China. Like any other industrial products, the vehicles also do have end to their service lives and ultimately result into end-of-life vehicle (ELV) at a certain stage of the vehicle life. Nowadays, because of improper management of ELVs, a lot of resources from ELVs are not only still wasted but it also has quite serious impact on the environment. The study is to find an ELV management mode based on green manufacturing, and wish to find a solution to prevent the environmental pollution caused due to improper management of ELVs and reduce the resources loss from the ELVs.In this report, a detailed study is made on existing ELV management practices along with finding the various causes of ELV generation followed by the analyses of legislations and policies on ELV management in different countries and regions. Also, a brief illustration is made on environmental burdens caused by different parts and materials contained within the ELV and the energy burdens borne at various phases of ELV handling task.From above study, the concept of Green Manufacturing (GM) is taken into consideration for ELV management, which comes from the thought that the ELV management is not only the task to be carried out at the vehicle's end of life stage but it is to be thought about throughout the vehicle lifecycle from the very beginning stage of product development to all the activities of the lifecycle.According to above thought, a model for end-of-life vehicle management based on green manufacturing is established. The model has integrated all the activities during the life cycle of a vehicle which include vehicle design, product material selection, vehicle manufacturing, vehicle utilization, end of life vehicle (ELV) storage, ELV depollution, ELV dismantling and finally ELV shredding and land filling of the non recoverable materials, so as to support the ELVM task in order to prevent environmental hazard and reduce the resource loss from the ELVs.With the guidance of the established model, some key players and key issues are identified having major roles to play in End of life Vehicle Management and concludes with the a series of viewpoints such as follows: Design of vehicles and selection of the product materials should respond to end of life vehicle management task and address...