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LIFE-CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT DEMONSTRATION FOR THE BGU-24
Citation:
Tolle, D., B. Vigon, AND D. Evers. LIFE-CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT DEMONSTRATION FOR THE BGU-24. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/SR-98/070, 1999.
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Description:
The primary goal of this project was to develop and demonstrate a life-cycle impact assessment (LCIA) approach using existing life-cycle inventory (LCI) data on one of the propellants, energetics, and pyrotechnic (PEP) materials of interest to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Sponsorship for this study was from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and involved cooperative efforts by the DoD, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a program to develop technologies for clean production of PEP materials. Since the PEP program framework is strongly oriented around life-cycle assessment (LCA), a baseline LCI of the guided bomb unit-24 (GBU-24) made with RDX explosives had been conducted prior to this study and was selected as a test case for this LCIA.