The SEES consortium members are continously publishing the project results on many occasions and make them available for download from this homepage. We would appreciate your feedback on our work.

At the current stage of the project, the following publications are available for download:

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SEES OVERVIEW: Posters, Flyers, Presentations

• Official Project Presentation (July 2004)
• Project Flyer with short presentation of the project and its goals
• Poster for ECO-X, Vienna (June 2005)
• Poster for SusRec'05, Praha (June 2005)
• Poster on plastic recycling for  LCM2005, Barcelona (September 2005)
• Programme of the Workshop at the CARE Innovation Congress, Vienna, (November 2006)

   Conference Papers and Presentations of SEES partners

• EGG2004: How to improve the Recyclability Potential of Automotive Electronics (Berlin, Sept.2004)
• ECO-X 2005:  Recycling technologies (WP4), (Vienna, June 2005)
• LCM 2005: Recyclability Index (WP 7.2), (Barcelona, September 2005)
• LCM 2005: LCA-LCC Case studies (WP 7.1), Barcelona, September 2005)
• Ökobilanz Werkstatt 2005: LCA Studies in the SEES project  (WP 7),(Bad Urach, June 2005)
• Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) 2006 Conference, Leuven (May 31 - June 2, 2006)
• Transport Research Arena Europe 2006 (TRA 2006), Gothenburg (June 12-16, 2006)
• 26 th Automotive Electronics Conference, Dresden (June 27-28, 2006)
• INLCA/LCM2006, Washington D.C (October 4-6, 2006)
• Car Recycling Congress, Munich (October 18, 2006)
• Care Innovation 2006, Vienna (November 13-16, 2006)

• Integrated Assessment of Automotive EES (D1, June 2004)

This deliverable represents the first report for Workpackage 1. The main objective of this workpackage is to assess and integrate the existing knowledge about the Electrical and Electronic Systems (EES) used in cars considering their products characteristics, design, manufacture, assembly, dismantling, separation and recycling in order to provide a basis for deciding which EES elements will be examined in more detail in the following work packages.

• Environmental and economic studies (D7, July 2005)

Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing Studies have been carried out to analyse the potential environmental impacts and costs of different design and end-of-life scenarios of EES. Furthermore, two new methodologies have been developed to quantify the recyclability and recoverability potential of EES products and to simulate end-of-life scenarios.

• Dissassembly Study (D3, November 2005)

The  “Disassembly Study” of the SEES project aims to analyse and detect the problems associated to the disassembly of the present electrical & electronic systems used in cars, including logistic aspects in order to optimise dismantling processes and to give feedback to product design.

• Ecodesign Guidelines (D8, January 2006)

The goal of this report (D8) is to develop Generic Eco-Design guidelines that could be applied to any electrical & electronic product. It has been developed  to improve the environmental profile of these products. These guidelines should define for example which type of plastic should be used, which one is more recyclable, which substance should be avoided due to contamination or emissions problems, etc.

• Shredding study (D6, April 2006)

  The  Shredding Study analyses the shredding process of end-of-life vehicles (ELV) with a special view on the parts of the electrical and electronic system (EES) that remain in the car. The relevant contents of EES are cables, spools, copper in general, other metals, printed circuit boards (PCBs), plastics. It is investigated which of the materials go to which fractions and what are the influences to further recycling processes, disposal and costs/revenues.

• Analysis and Demonstration Activity for EES Recycling (D4, July 2006), part 1 
• Analysis and Demonstration Activity for EES Recycling (D4, July 2006), part 2 (Annex) 

This study analyses and evaluates the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of various chemical and mechanical recycling technologies for selected EES components and materials in order to recover the most valuable materials (gold, silver, platinum, copper) and to obtain a recyclable plastic fraction.

• Analysis and Demonstration activity for Plastic Recycling (D5, December 2006)
  

This report summarises the findings of the WP5, Task 5.1 study to separate the different
plastic fractions of the selected plastics samples from “EES recycling” (WP4) and “Shredding Study” (WP6). The methodology for separating the different plastic fractions is discussed. A detailed description of the separation techniques is presented.

•  Final Activity Report and Final Conclusions (December 2006)

This report summarises the main conclusions of the European research project “SEES - Sustainable Electrical & Electronic System for the Automotive Sector” which aimed at the development of guidelines, prototypes and processes striving for sustainable, clean, cost- and eco-efficient automotive electrical and electronic systems (EES)