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Katriina Parikka - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • promoting factors and early indicators of a successful product Panel
    Journal of Cleaner Production, 2007
    Co-Authors: Ari Nissinen, Katriina Parikka
    Abstract:

    Abstract Product Panels are presented as a promising method to find solutions for environmental problems arising from specific product groups. These Panels consist of representatives of manufacturers, retail, research, environmental and consumer administration, recycling, and various other stakeholders who work together in the Panel to draft plans of action aiming at improvements in the environmental characteristics of products and services, and promotion for environmentally sound products and services in the various markets. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that promote successful Panel work as based on the experiences from the Danish and Finnish product Panels. In addition, we aim at finding several indicators in Panel work that can help lead to successful results already in the early phase and, on the other hand, help to recognize Panels that will be ineffective from the viewpoint of environmental policy. We also describe how the findings from the Danish and Finnish Textile Panels were applied to a new product Panel in Finland dealing with furniture and how this Panel has started its work. The paper is based on existing material about the three Panels, including reports and websites of the Danish product Panels and the Finnish Furniture Panel. In addition, unpublished memos of the meetings of the three Panels have been studied. An evaluation report of the Danish Panels was very useful for the discussion of the findings. The authors have also participated in the furniture Panel as a member and a secretary. Experiences from the Danish Textile Panel and some early results of the Finnish furniture Panel indicate that, under the right conditions, gathering stakeholders from the whole product chain and administration into a Panel can be an efficient way to promote the market for greener products and thus, can serve as a tool for integrated product policy. Key success factors include the basic idea, committed people and openness of the product Panels. It is also important that the initiator give some guidance in the form of schedule, action plan and some preset objectives.

Ari Nissinen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • promoting factors and early indicators of a successful product Panel
    Journal of Cleaner Production, 2007
    Co-Authors: Ari Nissinen, Katriina Parikka
    Abstract:

    Abstract Product Panels are presented as a promising method to find solutions for environmental problems arising from specific product groups. These Panels consist of representatives of manufacturers, retail, research, environmental and consumer administration, recycling, and various other stakeholders who work together in the Panel to draft plans of action aiming at improvements in the environmental characteristics of products and services, and promotion for environmentally sound products and services in the various markets. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that promote successful Panel work as based on the experiences from the Danish and Finnish product Panels. In addition, we aim at finding several indicators in Panel work that can help lead to successful results already in the early phase and, on the other hand, help to recognize Panels that will be ineffective from the viewpoint of environmental policy. We also describe how the findings from the Danish and Finnish Textile Panels were applied to a new product Panel in Finland dealing with furniture and how this Panel has started its work. The paper is based on existing material about the three Panels, including reports and websites of the Danish product Panels and the Finnish Furniture Panel. In addition, unpublished memos of the meetings of the three Panels have been studied. An evaluation report of the Danish Panels was very useful for the discussion of the findings. The authors have also participated in the furniture Panel as a member and a secretary. Experiences from the Danish Textile Panel and some early results of the Finnish furniture Panel indicate that, under the right conditions, gathering stakeholders from the whole product chain and administration into a Panel can be an efficient way to promote the market for greener products and thus, can serve as a tool for integrated product policy. Key success factors include the basic idea, committed people and openness of the product Panels. It is also important that the initiator give some guidance in the form of schedule, action plan and some preset objectives.

Vladan Koncar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Flexible photovoltaic cells embedded into Textile structures
    Smart Textiles and their Applications, 2016
    Co-Authors: C. Nocito, Vladan Koncar
    Abstract:

    Abstract The issues related to production and scavenging of electrical energy are particularly important today. Regions of the earth that are exposed to sunlight are very interesting for two reasons: sun protection is necessary in order to avoid different forms of skin cancer and the possibility to use the sun energy to produce hot water or electrical energy. Textile structures are well adapted (flexible, rollable, lightweight) and used from ancient times to today as sunray shields. The subject matter of this chapter is a rollable photovoltaic composite, used in particular for solar protection, which includes at least one flexible photovoltaic Panel and at least one Textile Panel, on the outside face of which is laminated the said photovoltaic Panel by means of a first connecting layer, characterized in that, in the transverse direction to that in which it is to be rolled, and at any level of the photovoltaic Panel, it has a thickness that is more or less constant, including one or more zones of reduced thickness, the said thickness corresponding to the thickness of the Textile Panel possibly covered with a film on its inside face, in which the width is no more than 8 cm, so as to eliminate the formation of folds during rolling or in the deployed position. The photovoltaic windable composite comprises at least one photovoltaic cell, a Textile Panel and a bond layer providing a bonding between at least one photovoltaic cell and Textile Panel. Typically, the exterior side of the Textile Panel comprises at least two electrically conductive areas separated by a nonelectrically conductive area, and the bond layer comprises at least two electrically conductive areas emerging on the exterior and interior sides of said bond layer and separated by a nonconductive area. Both conductive areas of the bond layer are arranged between the photovoltaic cell and the superior side of the Textile Panel in order that the positive and negative poles of said photovoltaic cell are in an electrically conductive connection with both conductive areas of the Textile Panel.

C. Nocito - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Flexible photovoltaic cells embedded into Textile structures
    Smart Textiles and their Applications, 2016
    Co-Authors: C. Nocito, Vladan Koncar
    Abstract:

    Abstract The issues related to production and scavenging of electrical energy are particularly important today. Regions of the earth that are exposed to sunlight are very interesting for two reasons: sun protection is necessary in order to avoid different forms of skin cancer and the possibility to use the sun energy to produce hot water or electrical energy. Textile structures are well adapted (flexible, rollable, lightweight) and used from ancient times to today as sunray shields. The subject matter of this chapter is a rollable photovoltaic composite, used in particular for solar protection, which includes at least one flexible photovoltaic Panel and at least one Textile Panel, on the outside face of which is laminated the said photovoltaic Panel by means of a first connecting layer, characterized in that, in the transverse direction to that in which it is to be rolled, and at any level of the photovoltaic Panel, it has a thickness that is more or less constant, including one or more zones of reduced thickness, the said thickness corresponding to the thickness of the Textile Panel possibly covered with a film on its inside face, in which the width is no more than 8 cm, so as to eliminate the formation of folds during rolling or in the deployed position. The photovoltaic windable composite comprises at least one photovoltaic cell, a Textile Panel and a bond layer providing a bonding between at least one photovoltaic cell and Textile Panel. Typically, the exterior side of the Textile Panel comprises at least two electrically conductive areas separated by a nonelectrically conductive area, and the bond layer comprises at least two electrically conductive areas emerging on the exterior and interior sides of said bond layer and separated by a nonconductive area. Both conductive areas of the bond layer are arranged between the photovoltaic cell and the superior side of the Textile Panel in order that the positive and negative poles of said photovoltaic cell are in an electrically conductive connection with both conductive areas of the Textile Panel.

Rong Gong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Defining Fabric Drape
    2017
    Co-Authors: Alexandra Kuijpers, Rong Gong
    Abstract:

    This research aims to obtain more insight in the perception of fabric drape and how fabric drape can be cat-egorized With the current 3D virtual technologies to simulate garments the fashion and clothing industry can speed up work processes, improve accuracy and reduce material consumption in fit, design and sales. Although the interest in 3D technology is increasing, the implementation on a large scale emerges only slowly. At the threshold between physical and virtual fitting the fashion industry faces new challenges and demands re-quiring responses out of rule. The measurement of fabric drape started in the first half of the previous cen-tury, after the introduction of 3D garment simulation fabric drape gained interest from more researchers to obtain information for the virtual drape. Intensive research has been undertaken to define ‘fabric hand’, however, research is limited for the definition of fabric drape. Better understanding of how fabrics drape and how they can be selected based on their drape might contribute to the understanding of the virtually as-sessed material and accelerate the selection process of virtually, as well as digitally presented fabrics. For this research the drape coefficient of 13 fabrics, selected based on their drape, was measured with the Cusick drape tester. Images and videos of the fabrics draped on pedestals were presented to an expert tex-tile Panel who were asked to define the fabric drape. From these definitions categories, as well as identifying key-words, were derived. During a group session the expert Panel evaluated the drape categories and identi-fying key-words. In the next phase an expert user Panel, familiar with the assessment of fabrics in a virtual environment, assessed the appropriateness of the categories and identifying key-words which were present-ed along with the fabric drape images and videos. Moreover, both Panels judged the stiffness and amount of drape, next to that they indicated similar draping fabrics. The relation between the subjective assessment of drape and the drape coefficient was investigated. The agreement of the user Panel with the drape categories defined and evaluated by the Textile Panel was high. Further, the agreement of the majority of the user Panel with the identifying key-words was above 78%. A strong relation was found between the measured drape coefficient and the subjectively assessed stiffness and amount of drape. Additionally, the analysis of the fabrics combined by the Panels based on drape simi-larity, as well as the analysis of the drape coefficients, confirms with previous research, that significantly dif-ferent fabrics can have a similar drape. Fabrics can be divided in drape categories based on the way they drape, and the identifying key-words are useful to distinguish between significantly different fabrics with similar fabric drape. Moreover, the cate-gories are related to the drape coefficient.