Product Carbon Footprint Project at Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Carbon Footprinting of 

Information Technology Products 

based on ISO standards 

Corporate Quality 

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Content 

� Introduction 

� Standards 

� Approach 

� Results 

� Limitations 

� Conclusions 


Example of Tender Questions (UK, 2010) 

� 28.1 Do you record your carbon emissions during the manufacturing process? 

� 28.2 … provide a breakdown of the emissions produced. 

� 28.3 Do you know your current operational carbon footprint? 

� 28.4 … state what it is. 

� 28.5 What are you doing to reduce your current operational carbon footprint? 

� …. 

� 30.1 Do you know your current carbon footprint within disposal? 

� 30.1.1 … state what it is. 

� 30.10 Do you know the amount of energy needed to dispose of the product(s)? 

� 30.11 … state the amount of energy needed. 


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Seven principal topics have been identified & ranked resulting in 19 areas for differentiation 

Need for 

optimized 

environmentconscious 

footprint 

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4 5 6 7 

Environmental Conscious Footprint ranked No. 2 of 7 Topics! 

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Content 


� Standards 

� Approach 

� Results 




Standards for Product Carbon Footprints 

� GHG protocol: Initiative by the World Resources Institute and 

the World Business Council for Sustainable Development 

� Standard for accounting on product level under development 

� ISO 14040/44: Method to assess environmental impact 

potentials 

� ISO 14067: International standard for Carbon Footprint of 

Products 

� PAS 2050: Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for assessing 

the life cycle emissions of goods and services 

� ILCD Handbook: provides guidance on good practice of LCA 

� Carbon Disclosure Project: supports the disclosing of GHG 

emissions 


Content 


� Standards 

� Approach 

� Results 




Life Cycle Sectors – from cradle to grave 

Raw 

material 

Assembly 

Distribution 

Use phase 

Recycling/ 

Disposal 

� Chassis, power supply unit, processor, memory, 

hard disk, optical disk, … 

� Mainboard components and printed circuit board 

� Keyboard, mouse, cable, manuals, packaging 

� Mainboard assembly in Augsburg 

� Desktop/Server assembly in Augsburg 

� Pre-products from China 

to Augsburg by ship or airplane 

� Product from Augsburg 

to distribution center or customer 

� Product from customer 

to recycling center Paderborn 

� Lifetime of 5 years in Germany 

(German energy mix) 

� Power consumption similar to ENERGY 

STAR® (desktop) and SPECpower (server) 

� Manual disassembly in Paderborn 

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Pre-products, 

supplies, energy, 

transports, etc. 

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Life Cycle Assessment Project with bifa 

Raw Raw 

material material 

Pre-products, supplies, energy, transports, etc. 

Assembly Assembly Distribution 

Distribution Use Use phase phase 

Air emissions, water emissions, waste, co-products etc. 

Disposal/ Disposal/ 

Recycling Recycling 

Impact Category Explanation in English German 

Greenhouse effect climate change Treibhauseffekt 

Acidification acidic rain Versauerung, Saurer Regen 

Terrestrial eutrophication over-fertilization of soils by 

atmospheric emissions 

Aquatic eutrophication over-fertilization of water bodies by 

atmospheric and water emissions 

Terrestrische Eutrophierung, 

Überdüngung 

Aquatische Eutrophierung, 

Überdüngung 

Photochemical oxidant formation ozone smog Fotochemische Oxidantienbildung, 

(Ozon-Smog oder Sommer-Smog) 

Fossil cumulative energy demand consumption of fossil fuels Fossiler kumulierter Energieaufwand 

Human toxicity toxic damage to man and organisms Humantoxizität 

Eco toxicity toxic damage to organisms and ecosystems 

Desktop Fujitsu ESPRIMO E9900 and 

Server Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX/RX 300 S5 

Ökotoxizität 


Critical Review 

Desktop Fujitsu ESPRIMO E9900 and 

Server Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX/RX 300 S5 


Content 


� Standards 

� Approach 

� Results 




Product Configuration – Desktop PC 

Fujitsu ESPRIMO E9900 

� Intel ® Core i5-670 Processor 

� 2 x 2 GB DDR3 Memory 

� 250 GB Hard Disc 

� Optical Drive Supermulti 

� Nvidia ® Geforce ® 9500 GS Graphics Card 

� Operating System 

� Keyboard 

� Mouse 


Greenhouse Effect (Carbon Footprint) 

kg CO 2 equivalents 

Analysis for Desktop PC Fujitsu ESPRIMO E9900 / 5 years (Germany) 

800 

700 

600 

500 

400 

300 

200 

100 

0 

-100 

Use Phase 373 kg CO 2e 

Transport/Distribution 34 kg CO 2e 

Assembly 3 kg CO 2e 

Raw Materials 302 kg CO 2e 

Mainboard 90 kg CO 2e 

2× Memory 72 kg CO 2e 

Graphic card 36 kg CO 2e 

Power Supply Unit 32 kg CO 2e 

Credit Recycling -7 kg CO 2e 

NET RESULT 705 kg CO 2e 

With 52% the use phase has the lion share of the total footprint in Germany. 

For comparison: 4,400 km drive with a car (160 g/km) 


Greenhouse Effect – Country specific 


Desktop PC Fujitsu ESPRIMO E9900 / 5 years (Germany) 

800 

600 

400 

200 

0 

-200 

Energy mix 

Use phase 

in Germany 

(base scenario) 

Raw Materials Assembly Transport/Distribution Use Phase Disposal/Recycling 

Coal & 

Lignite 

Natural 

gas 

Nuclear 

power Waste 

Hydro- 

power 

Wind 

power Wood 

Germany 47% 12% 26% 2.3% 3.5% 4.3% 1.0% 

Europe 28% 18% 29% 1.2% 16% 1.8% 1.1% 

Great Britain 32% 40% 19% 0.4% 1.9% 0.5% 1.0% 

France 4% 3% 77% 0.6% 11% 0.1% 0.2% 

Scandinavia 9% 6% 26% 0.8% 48% 2.1% 4.8% 

Source: bifa environmental institute 

Use phase 

in Europe 

Use phase 

in Great Britain 

Differences in the use phase are caused 

by the different energy mixes in the countries 

Use phase 

in France 

Use phase 

in Scandinavia 


Greenhouse Effect – Transport specific 


Desktop PC Fujitsu ESPRIMO E9900 / 5 years 

800 

700 

600 

500 

400 

300 

200 

100 

0 

-100 

Base scenario Transport by airplane only Transport by ship only 


The transport by airplane leads to higher environmental pollution 


Product Configuration – Server 

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX/TX 300 S5 

� Intel ® Xeon ® E5520 4C/8T 2.26 GHz 8 MB 

� 1 x 4 GB DDR3-1066 PC3-8500 rg ECC 

� Hard Disc SAS 3G 146 GB 15K HOT PLUG 3.5" EP 

� RAID 0/1 SAS based on LSI MegaRAID 8Port PCIe Card 

� DVD-RW Supermulti 1.6" SATA (TX300) 

� Rack Mount Kit Server (RX300) 

RX 300 TX 300 


Greenhouse Effect (Carbon Footprint) 


PRIMERGY TX 300/RX 300 S5 / 5 years (Germany), Typical workload of 30% 

4500 

4000 

3500 

3000 

2500 

2000 

1500 

1000 

500 

0 

-500 

TX 300 RX 300 

TX 300 

RX 300 

Use Phase 3,225 kg CO 2e 

Transport/Distribution 57 kg CO 2e 

Assembly 11 kg CO 2e 

Raw Materials 490 kg CO 2e 

Mainboard 192 kg CO 2e 

Chassis 130 kg CO 2e 

Power Supply Unit 53 kg CO 2e 

Credit Recycling -15 kg CO 2e 

NET RESULT 3,767 kg CO 2e 

NET RESULT 3,854 kg CO 2e 

With nearly 90% the use phase has by far the largest share of the total 

footprint in Germany. For comparison: 24,000 km drive with a car (160 g/km) 


Greenhouse Effect – Workload Specific 


Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX 300 S5 / 5 years 

4500 

4000 

3500 

3000 

2500 

2000 

1500 

1000 

500 

0 

Workload 10% Workload 20% Workload 30% Worldload 50% Workload 100% 

-500 

(base scenario) 


Optimize the workload of servers 


General Statements 

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Demand for sustainable products 

has grown significantly 

ISO 14040/44 provide a solid basis for calculating 

CO 2 footprints of goods and services 

Availability of common international standards & data bases 

is required to allow comparisons of footprints & labels 

PCF increases awareness of climatic 

relevance of a product or service 

LCA & PCF projects support a good transparency along 

the entire life value chain to identify potential for reduction 

of emissions 

High efforts are necessary today to analyze 

and calculate LCA & PCF for ICT products 


Lessons Learnt by the PCF Project 

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Improve the energy 

efficiency of the products 

Provide information for users to reduce 

the energy consumption in use phase 

Optimize main memory & graphics 

configuration 

Optimize the workload of servers 

Communicate suppliers their possibilities 

to reduce environmental loads 

Assemble close to the end user Use power management 

� Screen off: 15 min 

� Standby: 30 min 

� 


Content 


� Standards 

� Approach 

� Results 




PCF – What is possible and what not? 

Possible 

� Transparency from 

cradle to grave 

� Find emission reduction 

opportunities 

� Show improvements 

Not possible 

� PCF as Single indication 

for environmental aspect 

� Comparison of Carbon Footprint 

at point of sales 

� Exact and comparable values 


Content 


� Standards 

� Approach 

� Results 




Conclusions 

� PCF projects are an important step on a long road to 

comparable emission calculations of ICT products 

� Helpful insights are possible throughout the complete value 

chain for identification of e.g.: 

� Optimized use of energy and material 

� Reduction of transport emissions 

� Development and provision of energy-efficient power supply units 

� Optimal configuration 

� Reuse and recycling of components 

� Further guidance and standardization is necessary for 

� Methodology and 

� Data bases

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