Title: LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENTS OF PERMANENT MAGNETS_lecture content, learning outcomes and lecturer CV (copy)
Course: Green deal and circular economy challenges of rare earth-based permanent magnets with technical aspects > Section: ONLINE WORKSHOP MATERIALS

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the leading and most powerful tool to assess environmental impacts and benefits, of products, processes and systems. Like any tool, it must be used in the correct way to ensure the good results, and these often need careful consideration to be interpreted correctly. This lecture will provide an overview of the use of LCA using case study examples, and explain challenges, potential uses and possible pitfalls.

Lecture content:

-          Life cycle assessment

-          Choosing the functional unit and scope

-          Impact categories

-          Case study example magnet recycling routes

-          Case study example 2

-          Common challenges

-          Interpreting results

-          LCA resources

Learning outcomes:

By the completion of this lecture, students will be expected:

-          to list where LCA can be applied

-          to map a life cycle

-          to develop a goal and scope definition

-          to interpret LCA results

Dr Steve Harris is a senior researcher and project manager at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. He works within the Life Cycle Management team, primarily on national and EU research projects, but also on consultancy projects with municipalities and industrial partners. He has 22 years’ experience working on a wide range of sustainability projects, that includes LCA, industrial symbiosis, circular and sharing economy, urban development and sustainability assessment. Steve has worked in the UK, Sweden and Australia as an academic and consultant; and has published over 60 journal papers and reports.

The lecture will highlight the most important aspect of magnetism towards creating magnets with applicable values for motors and generators for future green energy sector

Lecture content:

-          How society benefits from the magnetism

-          History and basics

-          Magnetism and electricity

-          Magnetic materials responses

-          Magnetic domains

-          How to govern the properties via microstructure towards applications

-          Magnetism units

-          Magnetic measurements

-          Exotic magnetism, that is not exotic

-          Resource for literature

Learning outcomes

 By the completion of this lecture, students will be expected to

-          to use both SI and CGS for hysteresis characteristics;

-          to use the models of magnetization and demagnetization in various cases;

-          to calculate the contribution of magnetistatic energy, elastic energy and anisotropy in magnetic properties;

-          to solve theoretical and applied problems connected with professional activities;

-          to predict the properties of the materials on the basis of connections between composition-treatment-microstructure;

-          to choose materials for various applications, taking into account hysteresis properties, thermo- and magnetic stability, the   cost of production.

Assoc. Prof. Kristina Žužek Rožman is the leader of the Group for Magnetic materials and Electrochemistry on Department for nanostructured materials and is an Assoc. Prof. on International Postgraduate School of Jozef Stefan. Her main scientific interests include rare earth elements (REEs) permanent magnets and electrochemistry of nanostructured material. Her bibliography contains 80+ scientific papers and several patents and patent applications on permanent magnets and long track record on working with industry (Magneti Ljubljana, Kolektor Group, ABB Switzerland). She successfully supervised several PhDs and post-docs in the field of permanent magnets and electrochemistry, receiving a prize for one of the best supervisors of the year 2019. She is involved in several national (2 ongoing) and EU projects with recent MSCA ITN Marie Curie DEMETER, MSCA IF OCARINA, GYROMAGS and H2020 PASSENGER, RESSILIENCE, EIT RAW materials INSPIRES and RECO2MAG.