Klöpffer / Grahl Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

A Guide to Best Practice
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-527-65564-9
Verlag: Wiley-VCH
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, E-Book

This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students. Following a general introduction on the philosophy and purpose of LCA, the reader is taken through all the stages of a complete LCA analysis, with each step exemplified by real-life data from a major LCA project on beverage packaging. Measures as carbon and water footprint, based on the most recent international standards and definitions, are addressed.

 

Written by two pioneers of LCA, this practical volume is targeted at first-time LCA users but equally makes a much-valued reference for more experienced practitioners.

 

From the content:

* Goal and Scope Definition

* Life Cycle Inventory Analysis

* Life Cycle Impact Assessment

* Interpretation, Reporting and Critical Review

* From LCA to Sustainability Assessment

 

and more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klöpffer, Walter

Grahl, Birgit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION

What is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?

History

The Structure of LCA

Standardization of LCA

Literature and Information on LCA

 

GOAL AND SCOPE DEFINITION

Goal Definition

Scope

Illustration of the Component "Definition of Goal and Scope" unsing an Example of Practice

 

LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY ANALYSIS

Basics

Energy Analysis

Allocation

Procurement, Origin and Quality of Data

Data Aggregation and Units

Presentation of Inventory Results

Illustration of the Inventory Phase by an Example

 

LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Basic Principle of Life Cycle Impact Assessment

Method of Critical Volumes

Structure of Impact Assessment according to ISO 14040 and 14044

Method of Impact Categories (Environmental Problem Fields)

Impact Categories, Impact Indicators and Characterization Factors

Illustration of the Impact Assessment Phase by Practical Example

 

LIFE CYCLE INTERPRETATION, REPORTING AND CRITICAL REVIEW

Development and Rank of the Phase Interpretation

The Phase Interpretation According to ISO

Techniques for Result Analysis

Reporting

Critical Review

Illustration of the Component Interpretation Using an Example of Practice

 

FROM LCA TO SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT

Sustainability

The Three Dimensions of Sustainability

State of the Art of Methods

One Life Cycle Assessment or Three?

Conclusions

 

APPENDIX

Solutions of Exercises

Standard Report Sheet of Electricity Mix (Germany)

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Klöpffer is consultant for life cycle and chemicals assessment in Frankfurt (Germany). After his studies of chemistry at the University of Graz (Austria) he was working for nearly thirty years at the Battelle Institute e.V. in Frankfurt, followed by a position at C.A.U. Ltd. in Dreieich (Germany). Since 1975 he has also been Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Mainz. Professor Klöpffer is the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of 'The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment'.

 

Birgit Grahl studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg (Germany). She then headed the chemistry department of the Öko-Institut e.V. Freiburg (Germany), followed by several years as co-owner and director of a commercial laboratory (Germany) and afterwards working as a freelance consultant in the field of industrial ecology. Dr. Grahl was involved in the development of the ISO 14040 series, is a member of the editorial board of 'The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment' and professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Lübeck (Germany).