Production of fine and speciality chemicals: procedure for the estimation of LCIsThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Tập 9 - Trang 101-113 - 2004
Georg Geisler, Thomas B. Hofstetter, Konrad Hungerbühler
To improve the environmental performance of chemical products or services,
especially via comparisons of chemical products, LCA is a suitable evaluation
method. However, no procedure to obtain comprehensive LCI-data on the production
of fine and speciality chemicals is available to date, and information on such
production processes is scarce. Thus, a procedure was developed for the
estimation of L... hiện toàn bộ
Problematic consequences of the inclusion of capital goods inventory data in Environmental Product DeclarationsThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Tập 29 - Trang 1-24 - 2023
Olubukola Tokede, Rob Rouwette
A recent update to the Product Category Rules (PCRs) for Construction Products
(of the International EPD System) has triggered a methodological issue for
owners and users of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). The updated PCR
has led to capital goods data being implicitly included in the Life Cycle
Inventory (LCI) of EPDs. This paper critically examines the role of capital
goods in EPDs and... hiện toàn bộ
Toxicity impacts in the environmental footprint method: calculation principlesThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - - 2022
Serenella Sala, Fabrizio Biganzoli, Esther Sanye Mengual, Erwan Saouter
Abstract Purpose The EU environmental footprint (EF) is a life cycle
assessment (LCA)-based method which aims at assessing the environmental impacts
of products and organisations through 16 midpoint impact categories, among which
three address toxicity-related impacts. This paper presents the principles
underpinning the calculation of the set of characterisation factors (CFs) for
the toxicity-rela... hiện toàn bộ
A PCA-based method for construction of composite sustainability indicatorsThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Tập 17 - Trang 593-603 - 2012
Tao Li, Hongchao Zhang, Chris Yuan, Zhichao Liu, Chengcheng Fan
Sustainable manufacturing is practiced globally as a comprehensive strategy for
improving the sustainability performance of the manufacturing industry. While
sustainability is characterized into such three dimensions as economic,
environmental, and social, currently, there is no quantitative method yet to
measure the so-called “sustainability” in the manufacturing industry. The
objective of this r... hiện toàn bộ
A scalable life cycle inventory of an automotive power electronic inverter unit—part II: manufacturing processesThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Tập 24 - Trang 694-711 - 2018
Anders Nordelöf
A scalable life cycle inventory (LCI) model, which provides mass composition and
gate-to-gate manufacturing data for a power electronic inverter unit intended
for controlling electric vehicle propulsion motors, was developed. The purpose
is to fill existing data gaps for life cycle assessment (LCA) of electric
vehicles. The model comprises new and easy-to-use data with sufficient level of
detail t... hiện toàn bộ
Comparative life cycle assessment of current and future electricity generation systems in the Czech Republic and PolandThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Tập 23 - Trang 2165-2177 - 2018
Dorota Burchart-Korol, Pavlina Pustejovska, Agata Blaut, Simona Jursova, Jerzy Korol
The purpose of the study was to perform a comparative life cycle assessment of
current and future electricity generation systems in the Czech Republic and
Poland. The paper also outlines the main sources of environmental impact for the
different impact categories for the electricity generation technologies
analyzed. The analyses covered the years 2000–2050, and were conducted within
the framework ... hiện toàn bộ