A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a comprehensive method of measuring environmental impacts associated with a product's life cycle ( cradle-to-grave analysis ). These impacts can include energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, and waste generation. It assesses potential impact by: Organizing a list of relevant inputs …
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This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students. Following a general introduction on the ...
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2.2. Environmental life cycle impact assessment. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an efficient analytical tool for characterization, quantification and evaluation of environmental impacts associated with the entire life cycle of any product (Toniolo et al., 2017).In this study, LCA method has been employed to investigate the eco-sustainability …
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This makes it imperative for PD practitioners to have access to methods and tools, including life cycle assessment (LCA), that support sustainability integration. This paper evaluates existing LCA tools on their ability to cater to the early-stage PD context, by having users apply the tools in practice and exploring their experiences.
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1. Introduction As manufacturers and industries all over the world are facing the demand towards eco -friendly products, environmental awareness has become a …
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National-scope environmental life cycle models of goods and services may be used for many purposes, not limited to quantifying impacts of production and consumption of nations, assessing organization-wide impacts, identifying purchasing hotspots, analyzing environmental impacts of policies, and performing streamlined life cycle …
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The study selected life cycle assessment as a scientific tool to quantify the environmental impacts of the models having ILCD 2011 midpoint and cumulative energy demand methods. ... This paper presents a combination of cleaner production with life cycle assessment (LCA) applied within the wood industry in a case study in Salvador, a …
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Life Cycle Assessment or Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is the scientific method to measure the environmental impact of products and services. In this article, we highlight and compare the different LCA software and tools you can choose from. Focusing on the tools that are commercially most used. This article includes:
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Life Cycle Assessment is a method to facilitate decision-making options regarding the impacts of products or services for design optimization, eco-efficiency and …
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Life cycle analysis (LCA) is a powerful method to quantify impacts based on material input in the process production. The results of midpoint impact analysis categories vary from global warming ...
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This paper explores the environmental impacts of a refrigerator recycling system in Brazil and quantifies its ecological advantages over primary resource production through a Life Cycle Assessment based on ISO 14040. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) accounts for savings of 720 kg CO 2-eq per recycled refrigerator on average, thus …
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There is an increasing demand for sustainable agricultural production as part of the transition towards a globally sustainable economy. To quantify impacts of agricultural systems on the environment, life cycle assessment (LCA) is ideal because of its holistic approach. Many tools have been developed to conduct LCAs in agriculture, …
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The tool is composed of three main blocks: (i) life cycle stages, (ii) assessment tools or methods, (iii) input data. Furthermore, an assessment framework at an abstract level is presented depicting the three main dimensions considering the integration of the three aspects of sustainability (economic, environmental and social) …
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The life cycle assessment boundary from the paper mill as shown in Figure 3, includes six steps: waste paper collection, pulp production, pulp production, transport and stock consumption, paper recycling, and non-recyclable matter (Liu et al. Citation 2020; Nie et al. Citation 2018). It is anticipated that the thermomechanical pulp (TMP ...
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P. Goglio et al. / Journal of Cleaner Production 172 (2018) 3770e3780 3771 instance, data for the production of fuel, electricity, steel, and rubber in Crop.LCA were derived from GHGenius ((S&T)2 ...
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Principles and Practice—This tool provides an introductory overview of LCA along with a description of general uses and major components of the technique.It is designed for use by companies, federal facilities, industry organizations, and academia and describes how to incorporate life-cycle-based …
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The study selected life cycle assessment as a scientific tool to quantify the environmental impacts of the models having ILCD 2011 midpoint and cumulative energy …
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LCA-based tool addressed to manufacturers, designers and consumers for the environmental assessment of furniture life cycle. • Two versions of the tool are provided: a spreadsheet document for non LCA-experts and an ILCD file for LCA-experts. • Parameters are set in both the versions of the tool to allow the assessment of specific …
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Development of Crop.LCA, an adaptable screening life cycle assessment tool for agricultural systems: A Canadian scenario assessment ... Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 172, 2018, pp. 3770-3780. Show abstract. There is an increasing demand for sustainable agricultural production as part of the transition towards a …
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Life Cycle Assessment is a method to facilitate decision-making options regarding the impacts of products or services for design optimization, eco-efficiency and strategic market positioning. However, there has been little research examining the efficacy, limitations or drawbacks of Life Cycle Assessment in the decision-making context.
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This course will introduce you to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) methodology, a tool to assess the environmental impact of products and …
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave (i.e., from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling). ... Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 270 ...
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Thus, an environmental assessment tool is presented within this paper, ... Finally, a life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed to assess the environmental impact of the iron aluminides compared to the steel reference during production, accounting for the lifetime as indicated by the wear rates obtained. ... Journal of Cleaner Production ...
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There are 6 modules in this course. This course will introduce you to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) methodology, a tool to assess the environmental impact of products and systems over the whole product life cycle, from cradle to grave. After a discussion of the potentials and limitations of quantitative LCA compared to other assessment tools, …
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Purpose To promote eco-efficient sugarcane products, there is a need for life cycle assessment (LCA) methods that enable rapid assessment of the environmental implications of alternative agricultural practices. In response, a customised LCA method for sugarcane growing was developed and operationalized in the CaneLCA tool. The aim of …
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Life Cycle Assessment can be used as a tool for ecologically oriented decisions. It serves the development and improvement of products. This method is also used in strategic planning, in political policymaking …
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tool: Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA). Life-Cycle Costing (LCC) is the logical counter-part of LCA for the economic assessment. LCC surpasses the purely economic accounting and cost calculation by taking into account the use- and end-of-life phases and hidden costs. For this component, a guideline is being developed by The
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Therefore life cycle assessment (LCA) is used to identify the most significant environmental impacts, as a basis for defining a minimum number of simple criteria for award of an ecolabel. This process introduces a number of problems which do not always aruse in other applications of LCA. This paper identifies some of the practical difficulties ...
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Warm-mix asphalt is an opportunity for the asphalt industry to improve its product performance, construction efficiency, and environmental stewardship. Studies have shown that the performance characteristics of WMA mixes can be at least equivalent to conventional mixes. This is possible because of the often better workability and hence …
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Finally, I was the Managing Guest Editor (MGE) of a virtual special issue: in 'Journal of Cleaner Production', regarding bio-economy and related aspects and research fields; in 'Resources, Conservation and Recycling', on sustainability issues of by-product and waste management systems to produce building material commodities; in the ...
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4 Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology, commonly used for the environmental assessment of vehicle technologies (or any other product/system). LCA studies consider all the environmentally significant processes throughout the life cycle of vehicles, from raw material extraction, production of components, assembly,
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PDF | A cleaner production assessment aims at the identification, evaluation and implementation of CP opportunities in a company. A systematic working... | Find, read and cite all the research …
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Normative ethics and methodology for life cycle assessment. Tomas Ekvall, Anne-Marie Tillman, Sverker Molander. Pages 1225-1234. View PDF. Article preview. select article …
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2 Chapter 1: Introduction. The introduction does a very good job of describing LCA's roots and explaining what could be seen as complex concepts such as system boundaries and functional units. There are many examples, not only showing what LCA is, but also comparing it to similar methods (e.g., input-output analysis).
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1. Applying LCA to guide the development of a sustainable circular bioeconomy. During the last 50 years, life cycle assessment (LCA) has evolved to include well-established and internationally accepted standards such as ISO 14040-14044 [1,2], impact models and applications in multiple sectors (e.g. energy, agriculture, …
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In the context of built environment, buildings are amongst the principal generators of environmental externalities. Life Cycle Assessment (LCAs) of energy efficiency and environmental performance of buildings are deemed critical to address sustainable development issues. This paper aims to investigate LCA as a tool to support …
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