Energy-Based Life Cycle Assessment of Industrial Products

Author

Bao, Han P. ; Multani, Harpreet S.

Author_Institution

Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk

fYear

2007

fDate

7-10 May 2007

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

127

Abstract

Forty-seven industrial products with verifiable records of life cycle energy consumptions over their manufacturing phases and usage phases provide the basis for this study. The environmental impacts for determination include global warming potential, ozone depletion potential, photochemical oxidants, acidification potential, and eutrophication potential. Correlations between these environmental impacts and the life cycle energy consumptions are the primary outputs of this study. It was determined that the energy consumption was an excellent indicator for many if not most of the environmental loads indicated above.

Keywords

design for environment; energy consumption; global warming; product life cycle management; acidification; energy-based life cycle assessment; environmental impacts; eutrophication; global warming; industrial products; life cycle energy consumptions; manufacturing phases; ozone depletion; photochemical oxidants; usage phases; Costs; Energy consumption; Global warming; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Mechanical engineering; Photochemistry; Power generation economics; Process design; Product design; Energy-based LCA; Environmental design; Impact evaluation; LCA of industrial products; Life cycle assessment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics & the Environment, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0861-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.2007.369379

Filename

4222868