LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT PROGNOSIS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Special Symposium - Environmental Protection & Sustainability
Environmental Protection & Sustainability - III
Keywords: Sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment, Prognosis
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analysis is widely carried out as a part of sustainability analysis, in order to evaluate the environmental performance of products and processes – presented as Global Warming Potential (GWP), Summer Smog Potential (POCP), Acidification Potential (AP) etc. This method is one of the most representing method for this purpose.
As LCA is a method which can be implemented at different development stage (for already commercially existing systems as well as for processes or products at the early design stage) the processes, which LCA experts deal with, can be a “pilot plant” or an industrial scale plant.
Taking the processes under development into consideration, the LCA result of a pilotplant do not necessarily present the environmental burdens which would be caused after scaling up to commercial scale plant (“production scale” or “large scale”). The effects on environmental burdens due to technical scale up are commonly not or at least not entirely considered.
Therefore a method is required, which enables the prognosis of the LCA analysis for large scale plant based on information of small scale plant or pilot plant. Influencing factors such as material and energy efficiencies, material and energy optimization as well as well as the required technologies for the Input and Output materials (energy and material) should be taken into consideration.
In this presentation/ manuscript, the first approach is presented how to establish a guideline for making assumption in LCA scale up by implementing this method in an example.
See the full pdf manuscript of the abstract.
Presented Monday 17, 15:20 to 15:40, in session Environmental Protection & Sustainability - III (S-7C).
