ENTC 206-1 Exam Questions & Answers

classification of materials - Answer metals, polymers, ceramics, composites Life-Cycle inventory - Answer inputs (raw materials, bulk materials, energy...); outputs (products, by-products, gas emissions...) environmental stressors - Answer resource and water consumption, energy consumption over life, emission of CO2, NOx, SOx, particulates, and toxic residues, acidification, ozone depletioin life-cycle assessment (LCA) - Answer provides a perspective on the environmental impact of a product from cradle to grave goal of LCA - Answer green products; make all phases of the materials cycle environmental friendly RoHS - Answer restriction of hazardous substances; lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, PBB and PBDE green design - Answer designs products that are easy to reuse, recycle, and disassemble, improves product power efficiency, and enforces adherence to hazardous substance guidlines green manufacturing - Answer implements greener -- such as lead and halogen-free -- manufacturing process green procurement - Answer oversees a green supply chain management (SRM) system and maintains an online database of green vendors green services and marketing - Answer galvanizes support for recylcing programs embodied energy - Answer the enrgy required to produce materials from ores and feedstocks carbon footprint - Answer total amount of CHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization (plant), event, or product fossil fuels - Answer natural gass, petroleum, coal top fossil fuel combustion industries - Answer electricity generation and transportation renewable and clean energy - Answer solar, wind, nuclear, hydro order of fossil fuel CO2 output - Answer coal>petroleum>natural gas