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scale up or down the amount of commodities in order to produce the
desired amount of final product (functional unit)
Also connects the production system and the functional unit
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1 LCA (methodology/service) 2 X (Scaling vetor)
3 System process - flows? 4 Functional Unit
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technique for assessing the environmental aspects &
LCA potential impacts associated with a product
(methodology/service) Or: A method to assess the environmental impacts
of a product, process, or service
, 1. Compilation of inventory of in/outputs
2. Evaluation of inventory regarding environmental
Components of LCA (3)
impacts
3. Interpreting results
Subjective choices to be made
LCA Limits Limits due to data availability/quality
Spatially /temporally generic
1. Analyze specific effect on specific species from
the particular type of chemicals
2. Assess societal disadvantage/advantage or
What LCA cannot answer
introduce any political instrument which can
(3)
advance pollution reduction
3. Evaluate impacts of single emission source on
local envi of community
quantified performance of product system for use
Functional Unit
as reference unit
amount of products required to fulfill function
Reference Flow
(more convenient unit equivalent to functional unit)
Funcitonal - # of gas of fuel required to move car
Example of Functional
over 100 miles
Unit vs Reference Flow
Reference - 1 gal
smallest portion of product system for which data
Unit Process are collected when performing an LCA (both
elementary & technical flows)
Product's Life Cycle series of unit processes
(related to unit
processes)?
Elementary flows Natural systems/returning to them --> raw materials
Product flows Manmade --> emissions
collection of unit processes w/elementary & product
Product system flows, performing one or more defined functions, &
models life cycle of a product
System process - flows? ONLY elementary flows!