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Annelie Carlson

Head of Division, Principal Research Engineer

Evaluating cost-, energy-, and resource efficiency in a life cycle perspective.

My research take place in an interdisciplinary environment, where the research questions are approached and investigated from several perspectives and by participants from a number of research areas, using qualitative as well as quantitative methods. The main methods I use are life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC).

The projects I am, or recently have been, involved in covers a diversity of areas, for example, functional sales of indoor lighting, using AI to develop maintenance strategies, a new method for mineral and metal extraction, and electric non-road mobile machinery. My main task is to evaluate the effect on environmental impact, cost, energy and resource use in a life cycle perspective.

I also have extensive experience in research on transport and infrastructure, such as life cycle assessment of roads, road surface characteristics and the effect on rolling resistance and traffic fuel use, efficient use of engine heaters and the effect on electricity use due to longer and heavier freight trains.

Research

Present and recent projects

Electrified Material Handling

The project´s intention is to perform three fossil- and emission-free system solution demonstrations for medium-sized work machines while maintaining productivity and customer acceptance. Read more about the project Electrified Material Handling

Circular workwear in construction and industry

In the project, the legal, economic, and environmental pros and cons with modular work wear are evaluated. The perspectives of the distributor and customers are covered as well as the users’ perceived value of the clothes. read more about the project Circular workwear in construction and industry

Adapt 2030

Adaptive lifecycle design by applying digitalization and AI techniques to production. The project will develop a method and two demonstrators as “proof of concept” showing the process and value of lifecycle digitalization.Read more about the project Adapt 2030

Electric Site Research Project

The aim was to electrify each transport stage in a quarry – from excavation to primary crushing, and transport to secondary crushing –demonstrate the viability and evaluate the outcome. The system’s efficiency, safety and environmental benefits are set to impact both customers and society at large. Read more about the project Electric Site Research Project

SIMON

New Application of AI for Services in Maintenance towards a Circular Economy. The project created an inventory of AI techniques for maintenance services, applied AI techniques to three industrial cases, and evaluated their economic and environmental implications.Read more about the project SIMON

Functional sales of indoor lighting

The project aims to examine the legal aspects related to product service systems (PSS) and the environmental and economic effects resulting from the legal regulation. The survey aims to obtain knowledge about how PSS models should be designed to facilitate and stimulate business development and commercialization of more energy efficient, environmental and economic solutions than those provided today.

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Catena-D

This project aims to validate the concept of digital threads on the circular economy (CE) context, together with artificial intelligence (AI) applied to big data systemically with a circular business model.

Publications

2024

Marianna Lena Kambanou, Johannes Matschewsky, Annelie Carlson (2024) Business models and product designs that prolong the lifetime of construction workwear: Success, failure and environmental impacts Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 206, Article 107602 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Annelie Carlson, Felen II Arellano Divina (2024) Electric Material Handling: Assessment of the environmental impacts of two electric material handling machines

2023

Annelie Carlson, Sofia Dahlgren, Line Meldgaard, Erik Sundin (2023) Environmental evaluation of remanufactured automotive parts - A consistent assessment of a collection of products
Marianna Lena Kambanou, Christian Ahl, Karin Gagnerud, Johannes Matschewsky, Herbert Jacobson, Annelie Carlson, Jeanette Engzell, Mattias Lindahl (2023) Circular workwear in construction and industry: Environmental, economic, legal, and provider and customer perspectives

2022

Raul Carlsson, Tatiana Nevzorova, Derek Diener, Emanuela Vanacore, Robert Boyer, Marcus Linder, Mattias Lindahl, Annelie Carlson (2022) TRACE CERTAINTY - TRAnsitioning to a Circular Economy via CERTificAtion in INdusTrY: Testing metrics for measuring the circularity while metrics are being standardized: PROJECT FINAL REPORT Reference Number 2020-04410

Publications in collaboration with external partners 

News

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Interdisciplinary research on IVA’s 100 List

Five research projects from LiU are on the 100 List of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). The list pulls together projects with great potential to create value in society.
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Five LiU projects on the IVA 100 list

Five research projects from Linköping University are included in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 100 list this year.
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Network meeting for a sustainable and circular economy

Researchers working on the project "Interdisciplinary networking for a sustainable and circular economy (INSCE) met in Kaunas Lithuania to discuss current and futures trends in sustainability and circular economy related research.

Coworkers at the Products Services and Innovation (PSI) unit 

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Petter Alsén
Research Assistant
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Jelena Kurilova
Associate Professor
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Valeriia Lastovetskaia
PhD student
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Mattias Lindahl
Professor
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Yang Liu
Senior Associate Professor
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Johannes Matschewsky
Assistant Professor, Head of Unit
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Abhijna Neramballi
Postdoc
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Alex Kim Nordholm
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Tomohiko Sakao
Professor
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Erik Sundin
Professor

Organisation

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Products Services and Innovation

The unit is a research group that are leading experts in applied and transdisciplinary research on sustainable value creation based on a system perspective that enables effective and efficient use and preservation of resources.
Environmental Technology and Management

Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ)

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.
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Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

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