Energy Recovery through End-of-Life Vehicles Recycling in Developing Countries

Petronijević, Vuk; Đorđević, Aleksandar; Stefanović, Miladin; Arsovski, Slavko; Krivokapić, Zdravko; Mišić, Milan

doi:10.3390/su12218764

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Energy Recovery through End-of-Life Vehicles Recycling in Developing Countries

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Vuk Petronijević

¹,

Aleksandar Đorđević

^1,*

,

Miladin Stefanović

¹

,

Slavko Arsovski

¹,

Zdravko Krivokapić

² and

Milan Mišić

³

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Department for production engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia

²

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Montenegro, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

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Higher Technical School of Professional Studies Zvečan, 38227 Zvečan, Serbia

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Sustainability 2020, 12(21), 8764; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218764

Submission received: 7 September 2020 / Revised: 13 October 2020 / Accepted: 16 October 2020 / Published: 22 October 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Development)

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End-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling is a process that spends energy and could be an energy source as well. This part of energy recovering depends on many different factors related to the broad and local aspects of ELV recycling. The ELV recycling process is consuming energy from different energy sources (electrical, fossil), however, this consumption is lower in relation to energy consumption during the production of new vehicle parts from the very beginning. This article attempts to promote an integrated approach in the analysis of the problem of energy recovery through ELV recycling. Authors aim to analyze the ELV recycling process as an energy generator and to present possibilities for its energy recovery. The research analyses are based on the empirical investigation of ELV recycling in the Republic of Serbia, as a developing country, and on defined statistical model presenting the impact of ELV recycling on energy generation, spending, and conservation during one-year intervals. Research results showed that the higher ELV generation rates may led to a higher energy recovery, and environmental and socio-economic sustainability.

Keywords: end-of-life vehicles (ELV); recycling; energy recovery; modeling; simulation

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Petronijević, V.; Đorđević, A.; Stefanović, M.; Arsovski, S.; Krivokapić, Z.; Mišić, M. Energy Recovery through End-of-Life Vehicles Recycling in Developing Countries. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8764. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218764

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Petronijević V, Đorđević A, Stefanović M, Arsovski S, Krivokapić Z, Mišić M. Energy Recovery through End-of-Life Vehicles Recycling in Developing Countries. Sustainability. 2020; 12(21):8764. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218764

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Petronijević, Vuk, Aleksandar Đorđević, Miladin Stefanović, Slavko Arsovski, Zdravko Krivokapić, and Milan Mišić. 2020. "Energy Recovery through End-of-Life Vehicles Recycling in Developing Countries" Sustainability 12, no. 21: 8764. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218764

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Petronijević, V., Đorđević, A., Stefanović, M., Arsovski, S., Krivokapić, Z., & Mišić, M. (2020). Energy Recovery through End-of-Life Vehicles Recycling in Developing Countries. Sustainability, 12(21), 8764. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218764

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