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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.

  • Readings

     

        Required reading list    

     

    • R. Horne, T. Grant, K.Verghese, Life Cycle Assessment: Principles, Practice and Prospects. Ed. CSIRO Publishing, (2009).

    • A. Azapagic, R. Clift, S. Perdan, Sustainable Development in Practice: Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists. Ed. John Wiley and Sons, (2004).

    • H. Baumann, A.M. Tillman, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to LCA, Ed. Studentlitteratur, (2004).

    • M.A. Curran, Life Cycle Assessment Handbook: A Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Products. Ed. Wiley-Scrivener, (2012).

    • A. Ciroth, C. Di Noi, T. Lohse, M. Srocka. OpenLCA 1.9 Comprehensive User Manual, (2019). http://www.openlca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/openLCA-1-9_User-Manual.pdf

      

       
        Additional reading    

     

    • UNE-EN ISO 14040:2006, Environmental management - Life cycle assessment - Principles and framework (ISO 14040:2006).

    • UNE-EN ISO 14044:2006, Environmental management - Life cycle assessment - Requirements and guidelines (ISO 14044:2006

    • A. Aranda Usón, I. Zabalza Bribián. Ecodiseño y Analisis de Ciclo de Vida. Ed. Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza (2010).