Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcase

This paper addresses the currently overlooked yet urgent topic of material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling, making three substantial contributions. First, it presents a comprehensive review of relevant studies on material demand, flows, and recycling from a techn...

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Main Author: Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Advances in Applied Energy
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666792424000362
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description This paper addresses the currently overlooked yet urgent topic of material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling, making three substantial contributions. First, it presents a comprehensive review of relevant studies on material demand, flows, and recycling from a techno-economic perspective and highlights the critical gap in existing energy system optimization models, in which material recycling and remanufacturing is not yet adequately integrated. Second, the paper introduces a general mathematical framework for incorporating material recycling and remanufacturing as a technology and investment option into typical energy system optimization models. Third, the paper demonstrates the practical application of this framework by examining the material recycling potential within the solar module expansion plan of the European Union. It explores the main drivers under which material recycling becomes economically competitive, considering various global and regional solar market conditions. Specifically, it investigates how different energy policies — such as incentivizing European Union manufacturing, limiting import shares, and implementing a circular economy constraint — affect the optimal remanufacturing capacities and achievable shares of recycling-based additions to meet the expansion targets until 2050.
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spelling doaj-art-75d18c7d806f4130bb90feb4b2fb86e52025-08-20T02:39:28ZengElsevierAdvances in Applied Energy2666-79242024-12-011610019810.1016/j.adapen.2024.100198Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcaseSebastian Zwickl-Bernhard0Correspondence to: Energy Economics Group (EEG), Technische Universität Wien, Gusshausstrasse 25-29/E370-3, 1040 Wien, Austria.; Energy Economics Group (EEG), Technische Universität Wien, Gusshausstrasse 25-29/E370-3, 1040 Wien, Austria; Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NorwayThis paper addresses the currently overlooked yet urgent topic of material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling, making three substantial contributions. First, it presents a comprehensive review of relevant studies on material demand, flows, and recycling from a techno-economic perspective and highlights the critical gap in existing energy system optimization models, in which material recycling and remanufacturing is not yet adequately integrated. Second, the paper introduces a general mathematical framework for incorporating material recycling and remanufacturing as a technology and investment option into typical energy system optimization models. Third, the paper demonstrates the practical application of this framework by examining the material recycling potential within the solar module expansion plan of the European Union. It explores the main drivers under which material recycling becomes economically competitive, considering various global and regional solar market conditions. Specifically, it investigates how different energy policies — such as incentivizing European Union manufacturing, limiting import shares, and implementing a circular economy constraint — affect the optimal remanufacturing capacities and achievable shares of recycling-based additions to meet the expansion targets until 2050.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666792424000362Material recyclingRemanufacturingEnergy system optimization modelingReviewSolar modules
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Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcase
Advances in Applied Energy
Material recycling
Remanufacturing
Energy system optimization modeling
Review
Solar modules
title Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcase
title_full Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcase
title_fullStr Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcase
title_full_unstemmed Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcase
title_short Integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling: A review and showcase
title_sort integrating material recycling and remanufacturing in energy system optimization modeling a review and showcase
topic Material recycling
Remanufacturing
Energy system optimization modeling
Review
Solar modules
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666792424000362
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