LCA Sample Clauses

LCA. The definition proposed by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in 1993 on the LCA methodology reads as follows: [LCA] is an objective procedure for assessing the energy and environmental impacts related to a product / process / activity, performed by identifying the energy and materials used and the waste released into the environment .The evaluation includes the entire life cycle the product / process / activity, including the extraction and processing of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, use, reuse, recycling and final disposal. The first LCA studies date back to the 1960s. Their goal was to optimize costs in industrial projects. In the last 50 years, the scope of LCA studies broadened to include raw materials, emission and waste. Today, LCA is an environmental management tool, which aims at identifying all resources used and also emissions and waste generated to air, ground and soil, over the whole life cycle of a specific project. The LCA procedure is internationally standardized by ISO 14040 standards [14,15]. The aim of LCA is to study the production process development and to understand whether opportunities exist for overall system improvements. Such analysis also leads to identify possible environmental hot spots in the production process [16]. The ISO framework of LCA describes LCA as four compulsory phases, schematically shown in Figure 2: ▪ Goal and scope definition (ISO 14041:1998)[17]: the purpose of the study and its scope is defined; ▪ Inventory analysis (ISO 14041:1998)[17]: data collection and calculation procedures to quantify relevant inputs and outputs of a product system; ▪ Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) (ISO 14042:2000)[18]: the data that constitutes the results of the inventory are associated with specific environmental impacts; ▪ Life cycle interpretation (ISO 14043:2000)[19]: the results from the inventory analysis and impact assessment are interpreted to meet the beforehand-defined goals of the study. Figure 2 – Phases of an LCA according to ISO 14040:1997 Each of these four phases can be broken down in smaller tasks, as shown in Figure 3: Figure 3 - Logical structure of LCA based on ISO 14001 and ISO 14004 One of the main features of LCA is the use of functional units. The functional unit is the assessment basis of LCA, enabling comparison between different ‘products’ that provide the same function. The products are quantitatively characterized in terms of this function in...
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