Analysis of environmental impacts of drone delivery on an online shopping system
Analysis of environmental impacts of drone delivery on an online shopping system
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DOI：
10.1016/j.accre.2018.09.001
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
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7.4
通讯作者：
Koiwanit, Jarotwan
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作者：
Koiwanit, Jarotwan
在农村地区，无人机旨在取代公路运输，以克服基础设施挑战；尽管无人机的燃料消耗明显较少，因此对环境的影响也较小，但仍应对其进行全生命周期评估，以全面了解其环境影响。本研究利用 CML2001（生命周期影响评估 (LCIA) 方法）对泰国无人机送货进行生命周期评估研究，将生命周期清单数据转换为环境影响。观察结果表明，使用无人机送货的在线购物系统在各种场景中都是最环保的运输选择之一。然而，零部件生产对环境问题产生了重大影响，而无人机操作对所有影响类别的影响最小。全球变暖、非生物消耗（ADP元素和化石）、空气酸化、富营养化、臭氧层消耗和光化学臭氧产生影响类别的主要贡献者是煤炭开采和发电站运营。然而，碳纤维和电池是其他影响类别的主要贡献者，其中包括人体毒性、淡水水生生态毒性、海洋水生生态毒性和陆地生态毒性。
In rural areas, drones are designed to replace road deliveries so as to overcome infrastructure challenges; though drones notably consume less fuel and consequently have a smaller impact on the environment, their full life cycle assessment should still be evaluated to comprehensively understand their environmental impact. This study presents a life cycle assessment study on drone delivery in Thailand using CML2001, the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) method, to convert life cycle inventory data into environmental impacts. The observed results show that an online shopping system using drone delivery is one of the most environmentally friendly transportation options throughout a wide range of scenarios. However, the parts production contributed to significant impacts on environmental issues while the drone operation showed the least impact to all impact categories. The dominant contributors to global warming, abiotic depletion (ADP elements and fossil), acidification air, eutrophication, ozone layer depletion, and photochemical ozone creation impact categories were the coal mining and electricity generating station operation. However, the carbon fibers and the battery, are the main contributors to other impact categories, which include the human toxicity, freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity, and terrestric ecotoxicity.