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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.

  • Assessment

     

     

      

      

        Assessment criteria    

     

      

    ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA "LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT"

      

    Description

    Typology

    Final assessment

    Reassessment

    %

    Exam. corresponding to the lectures

    Written exam

    No

    Yes

    50%

    • Minimum mark: 5,00.

    • Duration: 2 hours

    • Date: After completing the lectures 1 & 2

    • Retake conditions: Final exam in June and/or September

    • Comments: The september retake exam is only for those students who did not pass the June exam

    Final report of the group project

    Report

    No

    Yes

    20%

    • Minimum mark: 0,00.

    • Duration:

    • Date: At the end of the course

    • Retake conditions: Final exam in June and/or September

    • Comments: The september retake exam is only for those students who did not pass the June exam

    Final oral defense of the group project

    Oral exam

    No

    Yes

    25%

    • Minimum mark: 0,00.

    • Duration: To be determined

    • Date: At the end of the course

    • Retake conditions: Final exam in June and/or September

    • Comments: The september retake exam is only for those students who did not pass the June exam

    Intermediate oral defense of the group project

    Oral exam

    No

    Yes

    5%

    • Minimum mark: 0,00.

    • Duration: To be determined

    • Date: During the course

    • Retake conditions: Final exam in June and/or September

    • Comments: The september retake exam is only for those students who did not pass the June exam

      TOTAL

    100%

    COMMENTS:

    • Attendance is strongly recommended to the students. The individual contribution of each student to the group project will be checked in the oral defense of the project during the practical activities.
      If the final mark from the test and the group project is below the minimum mark (5.00), the student can pass a retake exam in June (date determined by the ETSIIyT board). An additional retake exam is possible in September (date determined by the ETSIIyT board).

    Part-time students COMMENTS:

    • Partial time students can pass the course thanks to the exam corresponding to the lectures that will be taken place before the start of the group projects. A retake exam is possible in June in a date to be determined . A second retake exam is possible in September in a date to be determined.