Modeling process and material alternatives in life cycle assessments

Autor:	Edie Sonne Hall, Christina Godwin, Joyce Cooper
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Engineering Data collection Scope (project management) business.industry Process (engineering) Management science Decision tree Inventory analysis Set (abstract data type) Risk analysis (engineering) Work (electrical) Product (category theory) business General Environmental Science
Zdroj:	The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 13:115-123
ISSN:	1614-7502 0948-3349
DOI:	10.1065/lca2007.06.341
Popis:	Background, Aims and Scope Although LCA is frequently used in product comparison, many practitioners are interested in identifying and assessing improvements within a life cycle. Thus, the goals of this work are to provide guidelines for scenario formulation for process and material alternatives within a life cycle inventory and to evaluate the usefulness of decision tree and matrix computational structures in the assessment of material and process alternatives. We assume that if the analysis goal is to guide the selection among alternatives towards reduced life cycle environmental impacts, then the analysis should estimate the inventory results in a manner that: (1) reveals the optimal set of processes with respect to minimization of each impact of interest, and (2) minimizes and organizes computational and data collection needs.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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