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Estimate of the environment impact of the ELT instrument MOSAIC
- Abstract:
- MOSAIC is an instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The instrument has started phase B, and apart from technical and financial requirements, MOSAIC has the additional requirement to investigate and minimise its environmental impact. The first step is to estimate the carbon footprint (and other effects) in a ‘Life Cycle Analysis’, for the instrument development up to Provisional Acceptance in Chile. This paper presents a preliminary analysis, aimed at identifying potential contributors to environmental impact. Investigated contributors are: materials, Full-Time-Equivalents, travel, and transport of the instrument. Not yet investigated (due to lack of information or certainty) are: electronics, test facilities and prototyping. Uncertainty in input data and conversion factors leads to error bars of a factor 2 or larger. Therefore, the outcome of the analysis can be used for internal comparison of contributors only, and it should not be used for comparison to other instruments or disciplines.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1117/12.3018865
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+ Science and Technology Facilities Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/057g20z61
- Grant:
- ST/X002322/1
- ST/P006639/1
- ST/S001409/1
- ST/N002717/1
- Publisher:
- Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
- Host title:
- Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024
- Journal:
- Proceedings of SPIE More from this journal
- Volume:
- 13099
- Article number:
- 130990P
- Publication date:
- 2024-08-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-08-01
- Event title:
- SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024
- Event location:
- Yokohama, Japan
- Event website:
- https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/astronomical-telescopes-and-instrumentation
- Event start date:
- 2024-06-16
- Event end date:
- 2024-06-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1996-756X
- ISSN:
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0277-786X
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2030520
- Local pid:
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pubs:2030520
- Deposit date:
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2024-09-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Rights statement:
- © (2024) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
- Notes:
- This paper was presented at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024, 16th-21st June 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
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