Federica Barbini

Ms. Federica Barbini


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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21 November 2025 in Energies
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ANDREA CAPPELLIANDREA CAPPELLI
ANDREA CAPPELLI
FBFederica Barbini
Federica Barbini
RPRiccardo Paoli
Riccardo Paoli
Simone MarzedduSimone Marzeddu
Simone Marzeddu
FRFrancesco Romagnoli
Francesco Romagnoli
Achieving a low-carbon energy future requires scaling up the supply of minerals and metals essential for renewable-energy technologies, many of which are classified as Critical Raw Materials (CRMs). Current Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods insufficiently address their depletion and criticality. This study introduces two novel indicators, the Raw Material Extraction/Reserve Index (RERI) and a Gini-based metric, to quantify depletion pressure and supply concentration, integrated into SimaPro v10.2 for practical use in LCA. The proposed framework is tested on a comparative case study of electric and diesel vehicles, showing that electric models, while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, entail higher CRM-related impacts. A complementary multi-criteria analysis (TOPSIS) confirms that electric vehicles remain the more sustainable long-term option, highlighting the need to integrate CRM indicators into LCA for robust sustainability assessments.