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Integrated life cycle assessment and environmental impact analysis: application to power plants
Author(s) -
Feng Haiquan,
Gabbar Hossam A.,
Tanaka Satoshi,
Sayed Hanaa E.,
Suzuki Kazuhiko,
Gruver William
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
asia‐pacific journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.348
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1932-2143
pISSN - 1932-2135
DOI - 10.1002/apj.31
Subject(s) - life cycle assessment , environmental impact assessment , work (physics) , process (computing) , engineering , research object , life cycle inventory , environmental economics , systems engineering , computer science , production (economics) , business , economics , ecology , biology , operating system , mechanical engineering , business administration , macroeconomics
With the recent environmental challenges, especially with those concerning energy generation, it is essential to provide an integrated life cycle assessment (LCA) approach that considers environmental impacts of power plants. This work proposes a practical framework to conduct LCA on power plants, which considers the environmental life cycle impact assessment method (LIME). Activity models are defined for the LCA process and integrated LCA‐LIME object model is defined and used to evaluate different environmental loads caused by power plants. Life cycle data from Japanese power plants are used to illustrate the proposed integrated framework. Copyright © 2007 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.