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FUNDAMENTALS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT AND OFF-THE-SHELF SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION
Citation:
Curran*, M A. AND K. Das. FUNDAMENTALS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT AND OFF-THE-SHELF SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION. Presented at International InLCA Conference, Seattle, Washington, 09/22/2003.
Description:
As the name implies, Life Cycle Assesssment (LCA) evaluates the entire life cycle of a product, process, activity, or service, not just simple economics at the time of delivery. This course on LCA covers the following issues:
Basic principles of LCA for use in producing, designing or purchasing sustainable processes, products, or services.
ISO 14000 standards on the three components of LCA: inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation.
Actual demonstration of some of the most popular LCA tools, including TEAM, SimaPro and
TcAce2.
Generation of unified taxonomy of environmental impacts for analyses of products, processes, and services.
From an overview of several case studies (LCA on biorenewables vs. fossil fuels, mechanical chemical bio pulping processes, chlorine versus UV disinfection technologies and other examples) the fundamentals of LCA.
Examples of pollution prevention systems that approach sustainability.
How to conduct or manage someone conducting an LCA.