Sustainable Electrical & Electronic System for the Automotive Sector
   

Welcome to SEES

Sustainable Electrical & Electronic System for the Automotive Sector (SEES)

SEES is a project funded by the European Union within the SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PRIORITY 6.2 (Sustainable surface transport Advanced Design and Production Techniques). The project consortium brings together car manufacturers and suppliers, universities, recyclers/dismantlers, research centers and consultants.

Since May 2005 the SEES-Project is also affiliated to the CARE Electronics network.

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WHY develop a sustainable EES?

  • The total content of electronics in cars is increasing continuously (forecast of 20 % of the car value in the future)
  • The electrical & electronic system ( EES) contains valuable materials (e.g. copper and precious metals) that could increase the revenue obtained in the present car recycling process
  • It contains some hazardous substances (e.g. lead) that need special treatment
  • Dismantling the EES is time and costs intensive

WHY this Project?

  • Nowadays the EES is not recycled separately and it remains in the car (to be shredded) due to the time needed for a selective dismantling and logistic limitations
  • The copper content of the EES could contaminate the recycled ferrous fraction

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Main Objective:

to develop prototypes and dismantling/recycling processes for a sustainable, clean, cost and eco- effective electrical & electronic systems (EES) in order to increase the recovery and reuse rate of vehicles

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Project Approach

  • Life-cycle perspective, covering all the product’s life steps (manufacturing, assembly, disassembly and materials recycling)
  • Analysis of the effects of the assembly process on electrical & electronic systems (EES) recycling
  • Reduce disassembly time/cost (i.e. dismantling manuals, use of intelligent materials)
  • Favour the metal recycling processes (chemical & mechanical recycling), and the development and demonstration of new technologies
  • Favour the plastic recycling process by development and demonstration of new technologies
  • Assessment of the shredding process (i.e. benefits of EES specific dismantling, logistic,...)
  • Find recycled plastic applications for the separated plastic fraction
  • Study of synergies with other recycling systems (e.g. electrical &  electronic equipment)
  • Environmental & economic assessment of all the life cycle steps
  • Eco-design (development of generic & specific guidelines to improve future designs)
  • New EES concept and specific parts  and functions prototyping and testing
  • Development of new methodologies & software tools to assess the end-of-life scenario (supporting recyclers decisions) and the recyclability potential of the EES (supporting designers)

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Sections

About SEES

An in-depth presentation of the project: scopes, planned outputs, partners involved and vision.

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Products

A showcase of the workpackages and of the products expected to spin off from the project.

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Dissemination

This section presents the rich dissemination activities of the SEES consortium: workshops, trainings and publications.

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Internal Area

This section is restricted to the partners in the SEES-project.

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Contact

This section contains all the information you need to contact us. Refer to the coordinator for information on the project and to the webmaster for questions about our website.

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Links

A list of links to related projects and the EU-directives relevant to this project.

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