Rickard Arvidsson

Associate professor, Technology management and Economics

rickard.arvidsson@chalmers.se +46317722161 Find me http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9258-0641

Rickard Arvidsson is mainly conducting environmental and sustainability assessments, mostly life cycle assessment (LCA), social life cycle assessment (SLCA), environmental risk assessment (ERA), and material and substance flow analysis (MFA/SFA). The main study objects are various advanced materials, such as nanomaterials and new battery materials.

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Environmental Risk Assessment

Major publications
Life Cycle Assessment of Cellulose Nanofibrils Production by Mechanical Treatment and Two Different Pretreatment Processes

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Thuy Duong Nguyen; Magdalena Svanström

Published: 2015

Published in: Environmental Science & Technology

Publication type: Journal article
Prospective Life Cycle Assessment of Graphene Production by Ultrasonication and Chemical Reduction

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Duncan Kushnir; Björn Sandén; Sverker Molander

Published: 2014

Published in: Environmental Science & Technology

Publication type: Journal article
Energy use indicators in energy and life cycle assessments of biofuels: review and recommendations

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Kristin Fransson; Morgan Fröling; Magdalena Svanström; Sverker Molander

Published: 2012

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Journal article
Latest publications

2021
Energy storage with less metal scarcity? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium-sulfur batteries with a focus on mineral resources.

Author: Sanna Wickerts; Rickard Arvidsson; Anders Nordelöf; Mudit Chordia; Patrik Johansson; Magdalena Svanström

Published: 2021

Published in:

Publication type: Other conference contribution
Using industrial default values for prospective modeling of new materials production – the case of photon upconversion materials for solar modules

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Sanna Wickerts; Björn Sandén; Gregory Peters

Published: 2021

Published in:

Publication type: Conference poster
How can LCA include prospective elements to assess emerging technologies and system transitions? The 76th LCA Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, 19 November 2020

Author: Lugas Raka Adrianto; Mitchell K. van der Hulst; Janot P. Tokaya; Rickard Arvidsson; Carlos F. Blanco; Carla Caldeira; Gonzalo Guillén-Gonsálbez; Serenella Sala; Bernhard Steubing; Matthias Buyle; Mohamad Kaddoura; Nicolas H. Navarre; Julien Pedneault; Massimo Pizzol; Beatrice Salieri; Toon van Harmelen; Mara Hauck

Published: 2021

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Journal article
Prospective Life-Cycle Modeling of Quantum Dot Nanoparticles for Use in Photon Upconversion Devices

Author: Sanna Wickerts; Rickard Arvidsson; Gregory Peters; Björn Sandén; Lili Hou; Bo Albinsson

Published: 2021

Published in: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Publication type: Journal article
Comment on “Comparative life cycle assessment of high performance lithium-sulfur battery cathodes”

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Sanna Wickerts; Anders Nordelöf

Published: 2021

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Other text in scientific journal
2020
The need for a prospective perspective in LCA

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Other conference contribution
Comments on “Life cycle assessment of cobalt extraction process” by Farjana et al. [1]

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Mudit Chordia; Anders Nordelöf

Published: 2020

Published in: Journal of Sustainable Mining

Publication type: Other text in scientific journal
Implementation of the crustal scarcity indicator into life cycle assessment software

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Mudit Chordia; Sanna Wickerts; Anders Nordelöf

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Report
Environmental and health risks of nanorobots: an early review

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Steffen Foss Hansen

Published: 2020

Published in: Environmental Science: Nano

Publication type: Journal article
Influence of natural organic matter on the aquatic ecotoxicity of engineered nanoparticles: Recommendations for environmental risk assessment

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Steffen Foss Hansen; Anders Baun

Published: 2020

Published in: NanoImpact

Publication type: Journal article
Environmental and resource aspects of substituting cemented carbide with polycrystalline diamond: The case of machining tools

Author: Anna Furberg; Kristin Fransson; Mats Zackrisson; Mikael Larsson; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Journal article
A crustal scarcity indicator for long-term global elemental resource assessment in LCA

Author: Rickard Arvidsson; Maria Ljunggren; Björn Sandén; Anders Nordelöf; Hampus André; Anne-Marie Tillman

Published: 2020

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Journal article
Sculpting Responsibility? Historicising Nanoscience and Technology Development in Attendant Research and Innovation Ethics

Author: Nicholas Surber; Karl Palmås; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in:

Publication type: Other conference contribution
Human health impacts of natural diamond production

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2020

Published in: Social LCA Impacts, Interests, Interactions

Publication type: Paper in proceeding
Time-based indicators of forced labour, local employment and equal opportunities in social LCA

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Social LCA - Impacts, Interests, Interactions

Publication type: Paper in proceeding
Measuring the immeasurable: The contribution of social sciences to the assessment of social impacts in a life cycle perspective

Author: Giulia Goffetti; Henrikke Baumann; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Collection FruiTrop Thema Social LCA

Publication type: Paper in proceeding
A Function‐Based Approach for Life Cycle Management of Chemicals in the Textile Industry

Author: Sandra Roos; S Posner; Christina Jönsson; Elisabeth Olsson; Hanna Lindén; Steffen Schellenberger; Mikael Larsson; Anne-Charlotte Hanning; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2020

Published in: Sustainability

Publication type: Journal article
2019
Methodological Approaches to End-Of-Life Modelling in Life Cycle Assessments of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Author: Anders Nordelöf; Sofia Poulikidou; Mudit Chordia; Felipe Bitencourt de Oliveira; Johan Tivander; Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2019

Published in: Batteries

Publication type: Review article
Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Synthetic Diamond Production

Author: Anna Furberg; Rickard Arvidsson; Mikael Larsson; Mats Zackrisson; Kristin Fransson; Sverker Molander

Published: 2019

Published in:

Publication type: Conference poster
A Swedish comment on ‘review: the availability of life-cycle studies in Sweden’

Author: Gregory Peters; Robin Harder; Rickard Arvidsson; Henrikke Baumann; Anna Björklund; Mélanie Despeisse; Tomas Ekvall; Niclas Ericsson; Göran Finnveden; Torun Hammar; Mathias Janssen; Carl Karheiding; Hanna Karlsson; Maria Ljunggren Söderman; Magdalena Svanström; Anne-Marie Tillman; Holger Wallbaum

Published: 2019

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Other text in scientific journal
On the use of ordinal scoring scales in social life cycle assessment

Author: Rickard Arvidsson

Published: 2019

Published in: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Publication type: Other text in scientific journal
Indicators for national consumption-based accounting of chemicals

Author: Linn Persson; Rickard Arvidsson; Mårten Berglund; Christel Cederberg; Göran Finnveden; Viveka Palm; Louise Sörme; Sarah Schmidt; Richard Wood

Published: 2019

Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Publication type: Journal article

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Mistra Environmental Nanosafety

The Mistra Environmental Nanosafety program (Mistra Miljösäker Nanoteknik) aims to build, through interdisciplinary research, knowledge to promote responsible use of nanotechnology in a sustainable society.

Projects
1/1/2020 — 12/31/2022

Life Cycle Assessment of All-Electric Aircrafts
7/1/2020 — 6/30/2024

Life cycle assessment of future battery chemistries – high storage capacity without scarce...
Start date : 1/1/2019

Making Sense of the Megajoules: Improving Energy Use Calculations in Life Cycle Assessment of energy...
4/1/2019 — 3/31/2023

Mistra Environmental Nanosafety Phase II
6/1/2020 — 12/31/2023

“Blood Batteries”? Social Life Cycle Impacts of Lithium Ion Batteries
Closed
1/1/2015 — 12/31/2020

Environmental and resource performance of the nanomaterials graphene and nanocellulose
1/1/2008 — 1/1/2013

Life cycle environmental impacts of biofuels

Biofuels are seen as one of several technologies that can contribute to a sustainable society, less dependent on fossil fuels. During the 2000s, it has however become clear that...
1/1/2018 — 12/31/2019

Making Sense of the Megajoules: Improving Energy Use Calculations in Life Cycle Assessment of energy...
12/1/2014 — 12/31/2018

Mistra Environmental Nanosafety
1/1/2009 — 12/31/2014

NanoSphere: Centre for interaction and risk studies in Nano-Bio-Geo-Sociotechno-sphere interfaces

The rapid and promising advancement of nanotechnology (NT) require a concomitant expansion of the knowledge about risks - human, ecological and societal - related to nanomaterials...
1/1/2015 — 3/30/2018

Policy-Relevant Indicators for National Consumption and Environment (PRINCE)

The PRINCE project aims to develop a sound and repeatable methodology to monitor the environmental impacts of Swedish consumption, both inside and outside Sweden's borders, using the...
1/15/2019 — 8/31/2019

Pre-study regarding a nexus for life cycle assessment of electromobility

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Rickard Arvidsson

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Mistra Environmental Nanosafety

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