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Ocean-energy technologies — which harvest renewable energy from the sea — will have a significant role to play in a future low-carbon society. A recent life-cycle analysis of different ocean-energy devices has found that life-cycle environmental impacts are caused mainly by the materials used in the mooring, ...
The design phase creates opportunities acting on the environmental issues of products using life cycle assessment (LCA). However, it is hampered by a lack of information originating from distinct scales along the product or technology value chain. ...
Very often the fate of chemicals after use is to be sent to municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), where they are subject to degradation. In many life cycle assessment (LCA) studies we need to account for the environmental impacts caused by the disposal of chemical substances down the drain, however existing LCA models for wastewater treatment typically reflect the average performance of ...
Prominent scenario studies predict that comparable dynamics will continue in the coming decades, which will further improve the environmental performance of Germany's electricity supply. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the methodology commonly used to evaluate environmental performance. ...
The environmental footprint of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) can be assessed using a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach. Life cycle impacts are computed according to the CML 2 baseline 2000 methodology. ...
This study develops an integrated life cycle inventory model for urban road transport emissions from a holistic modal perspective. The Singapore case was used to demonstrate the model. Results show that total life cycle greenhouse gas emission from Singapore's road transport sector is 7.8 million tons per year. ...
The first phase focused on the inventory of emissions through monitored data at stacks, permissions to emit from local authorities, and life cycle assessment inventories. ...
Recognizing how important it was to adjust to changing consumer attitudes, Heuck, a renowned worldwide distributor of houseware products since 1922, decided to establish a sustainable and carbon neutral product line. Since product life cycle assessment (LCA) was not a core competency, Heuck needed to turn to an industry expert to help carry out this project. ...
Many companies have already answered yes to that question – for a combination of reasons typically related to stakeholder interest, key customer demands, public perception, and competitive positioning. In fact, life cycle analysis (LCA) has increasingly become an important tool in mature corporate sustainability programs, providing organizations with a ...
The environmental impacts of a products life cycle are widely assessed using life cycle assessment (LCA). Nevertheless, as LCA is a costly and time-consuming method, the previous study shown the development of simplified LCA (SLCA) drivers of the entire product life cycle stages for the ...
In this database, 30 types of inventory have been estimated, including emissions to the atmosphere and hydrosphere, as well as the amounts of resources consumed.Keywords: life-cycle assessment, LCA database, life-cycle inventory, LCI analysis, input-output table, input-output analysis, hybrid ...
LCA is not the same as life cycle costing (LCC). The two methodologies are complementary, but LCC focuses on the dollar costs of building and maintaining a structure over its life cycle, while LCA focuses on environmental performance. ...
The objective of this paper was to evaluate two different strategies for the treatment of organic wastes on a life cycle perspective, namely: composting and Anaerobic Digestion (AD). ...
The methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has proved to be suitable to support industrial decision making in several case studies. ...
An example given by Dr Kirman in a recent speech was the end-of-life vehicles Directive. Faced with restrictions on certain hazardous substances, motor manufacturers discovered that they did not know how much of these substances went into their vehicles, particularly in bought-in components and alloys. ...
ABSTRACT Market-based system delimitation may reduce the need for data collection in life cycle assessments (LCAs) without compromising reliability. Rather than including all potential suppliers and customers (e.g. in a weighted average), the market-based procedure allows the data collection to be reduced to those suppliers and customers, which are actually ...