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  • Life Cycle Assessment (2020)

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    Teaching Faculty

    Jonathan Albo Sánchez

    Antonio Domínguez Ramos

    María Margallo Blanco

    Javier Pinedo Alonso

    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department

     

     





    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a well-known methodology applied to products, processes and services which considers its full life cycle: from the cradle (as natural resources) to the grave (as air emissions, liquid effluents and solid wastes).

    The course covers all aspects about how to perform an LCA study: definition of the goal and scope as well as the target audience, gathering data on resource consumption and emissions, burdens to the environment, checking the robustness and significance of results and conclusions, and reporting and reviewing to ensure transparency and quality.

    This LCA course includes LCA fundamentals as well as practical activities based on LCA projects. For project development, the students learn how to use openLCA, which is an open-source and free software for Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment.


    Keywords

    Sustainable Development; LCA concept; Life cycle thinking; Goal and Scope definition, Inventory; Impact Assessment; Interpretation.

  • Course Details

     

     

    Course Information

    • Course: Life Cycle Assessment

    • Code: G799

    • Department / Unit: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department

    • Degree: Degree in Chemical Engineering

    • Faculty: School of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications

    • ECTS credits: 6

    • Language of instruction: English

    • Instructors: Jonathan Albo Sánchez, Antonio Domínguez Ramos, María Margallo Blanco, Javier Pinedo Alonso

     

     

    Course structure

     

    Unit 1. Life Cycle Assessment fundamentals

    • 1.1. Sustainable Development
    • 1.2. Development of the LCA concept
    • 1.3. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
    • 1.4. Europe 2020
    • 1.5. Life Cycle Thinking

     
    Unit 2. Life Cycle Assessment methodology

    • 2.1. Goal and Scope definition
    • 2.2. Life Cycle Inventory
    • 2.3. Life Cycle Impact Assessment
    • 2.4. Interpretation

     
    Unit 3. Practical activities

    • 3.1. Applied LCA problems
    • 3.2. Project with openLCA