1 / 39

Sustainable Production & Consumption

Sustainable Production & Consumption. Life Cycle Assessment Case studies Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment Does more consumption make you happy? Competition. Life Cycle Assessment. Environment. System. Functional Outputs. Inputs. Emissions/Wastes. Subsystems. Life Cycle Assessment.

tavon
Download Presentation

Sustainable Production & Consumption

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Sustainable Production & Consumption • Life Cycle Assessment • Case studies • Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment • Does more consumption make you happy? • Competition

  2. Life Cycle Assessment

  3. Environment System Functional Outputs Inputs Emissions/Wastes Subsystems Life Cycle Assessment

  4. Materials Acquisition Outputs Inputs Principal Products Formulation, processing and Manufacturing Materials Coproducts Product Distribution Energy Water effluents Water Product use Airborne emissions Air Recycle, products, components, materials Solid Waste Other Environmental interactions Waste Management Life Cycle Assessment

  5. x2 x3 x1 x4 Extraction Production Use Disposal FU CO2 = 0.2 kg/t CH4 = 0.1 kg/t x1 = 2t/tFU CO2 = 0.1kg/t CH4 = 0.1kg/t x3 = 1t/tFU CO2 = 0.3 kg/t CH4 = 0.1 kg/t x2 = 1.5t/tFU CO2 = 0.1kg/t CH4 = 0.3kg/t x4 = 0.5 t/tFU Life Cycle Assessment The system in this example has one functional output and each activity i from extraction of raw materials to final disposal generates a certain amount of CO2 and CH2.

  6. Life Cycle Assessment Using the Environmental Burdens equation the total environmental burdens per functional unit related to the emissions of CO2 and HC4 are therefore BCO2 = ∑bcCO2 . xi = (0.2)2+(0.3)1.5+(0.1)1+(0.1)0.5 →BCO2 = 1.0 kg/tFU BCH4 = ∑bcCH4 . xi = (0.1)2+(0.1)1.5+(0.1)1+(0.3)0.5 →BCH4 = 0.6 kg/tFU

  7. Life Cycle Assessment • The impacts most commonly considered in LCA are • Non-renewable resource depletion • Global warming • Ozone depletion • Acidification • Eutrophication • Photochemical oxidant formation • Human toxicity • Aquatic toxicity

  8. Life Cycle Assessment

  9. Life Cycle Assessment EGWP = (ecCO2)BCO2 + (ecCH4)BCH2 = 1(1) + 21(0.6) → EGWP = 13.6 kg CO2 equiv / tFU

  10. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  11. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  12. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  13. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  14. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  15. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  16. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  17. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  18. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  19. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  20. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  21. Environmental Impacts of PC’s

  22. Environmental Impact of Mobile Phones

  23. Environmental Impact of Mobile Phones Manufacture 9kg Use 12kg Total Accumulated Emissions 21kg

  24. Environmental Impact of Mobile Phones Manufacturing 25kg Use 12kg Total Accumulated Emissions 37kg

  25. Fully Comprehensive LCA Currently Accessible Region Extensive LCA Streamlined LCA LCA Scoping Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment

  26. Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment

  27. Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment

  28. Electronics in the Developing World

  29. Electronics in the Developing World

  30. Sustainability of PC’s The Internet The Rest Of The World System Boundary PC User

  31. Does more consumption make you happier? Happiness Money

  32. Does more consumption make you happier?

  33. Does more consumption make you happier?

  34. Does more consumption make you happier?

  35. Sustainable Production & Consumption • Life Cycle Assessment • Case studies • Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment • Does more consumption make you happy? • Competition

  36. Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment

More Related