Implementing life cycle assessment in product development

Bhander, Gurbakhash Singh; Hauschild, Michael Zwicky; McAloone, Tim C.

doi:10.1002/ep.670220414

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“…Environmental performance goals are carefully set for the product, in order to leave minimal environmental impact (COM, 2003;Ortiz, Raluy & Serra, 2007). The objective is not only to reduce the consumption of materials and energy and the emission of harmful substances, but also to make the products and parts easily retrievable, recyclable and re-usable (Bhander, Hauschild & McAloone, 2003;Sakao, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

An integrated factor analysis model for product eco-design based on full life cycle assessment

Zhou

Xiao

2016

JIEM

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Abstract:Purpose: Among the methods of comprehensive analysis for a product or an enterprise, there exist defects and deficiencies in traditional standard cost analyses and life cycle assessment methods. For example, some methods only emphasize one dimension (such as economic or environmental factors) while neglecting other relevant dimensions. This paper builds a factor analysis model of resource value flow, based on full life cycle assessment and eco-design theory, in order to expose the relevant internal logic between these two factors.Design/methodology/approach: The model considers the efficient multiplication of resources, economic efficiency, and environmental efficiency as its core objectives. The model studies the status of resource value flow during the entire life cycle of a product, and gives an in-depth analysis on the mutual logical relationship of product performance, value, resource consumption, and environmental load to reveal the symptoms and potentials in different dimensions.Findings: This paper illustrates logical relationships among resource efficiency, economic efficiency and environmental efficiency, builds a fully comprehensive evaluation analysis model to trace, evaluate and analyze the status of the material and value flow of the product life cycle process.-90-Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management -http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jiem.1558 Originality/value: This provides comprehensive, accurate and timely decision-making information for enterprise managers regarding product eco-design, as well as production and management activities. To conclude, it verifies the availability of this evaluation and analysis model using a Chinese SUV manufacturer as an example.

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Section: Review On Traditional Evaluation and Analysis Methods Of Promentioning

confidence: 99%

An integrated factor analysis model for product eco-design based on full life cycle assessment

Zhou

Xiao

2016

JIEM

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“…The concept is holistic, promoting analysis, quantification, understanding of all the environmental impacts associated with an activity. The provision of such information aids decision making and helps in the formulation of environmental strategy and policy as such, LCA has been accepted into the mainstream of environmental thought and management [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

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“…LCA, like design for environment, industrial ecology, and other emerging areas of engineering and sciences provide greater opportunities for developing sustainable and innovative processes and products [15,17,18,20,[26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

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Tools and concepts for environmental sustainability in the food‐energy‐water nexus: Chemical engineering perspective

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2017

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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This work primarily deals with environmental sustainability and/or sustainable development, and with methodologies to design or redesign sustainable chemical and allied processes and products using sustainability concepts and LCA thinking. The overall approach is illustrated with two case studies involve: (1) an eco‐sugar complex producing sugar, ethanol, and paper using water and energy as inputs to the process, and (2) the leather industry in Tamil Nadu, India which requires substantial amounts of water and energy to process leather from cattle—a food source. Also, this work focuses on what chemists, chemical engineers, and other disciplines can further contribute to fully visualize, establish and implement environmental sustainability and sustainable development. Sustainability has traditionally had three underlying bases: (1) economic viability—cost and business aspects; (2) social concern—human health and social welfare; and (3) natural or ecological issues—depletion of natural capital and environment. Sustainable development has become a major driving initiative in engineering throughout the world today. Here, our focus is on various aspects of sustainability or sustainable development including environmental, industrial, business, economical, ethical, and social sustainability. The work concludes with some summary thoughts on available tools and the nature of sustainability. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 37: 73–81, 2018

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“…Their methodology focused on minimizing the waste across the process boundary. Bhander et al (2003) have presented a general discussion on the use of LCA in product design. Xian et al (2003) have discussed development GPLCD (LCA tool) for electromechanical products green design.…”

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“…Earlier efforts were mainly economic driven and focused on cost-benefit or costeffective analyses, which traded-off environmental and economic assets with an objective to maximize differences between socioeconomic benefits of an activity against the financial and environmental liabilities (Bhander et al, 2003).…”

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An integrated approach for risk‐based life cycle assessment and multi‐criteria decision‐making

Sadiq

Khan²

2006

Business Process Management Journal

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/npsi/ctrl?lang=en http://nparc.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/npsi/ctrl?lang=fr Access and use of this website and the material on it are subject to the Terms and Conditions set forth at http://nparc.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/npsi/jsp/nparc_cp.jsp?lang=en NRC Publications Archive Archives des publications du CNRCThis publication could be one of several versions: author's original, accepted manuscript or the publisher's version. / La version de cette publication peut être l'une des suivantes : la version prépublication de l'auteur, la version acceptée du manuscrit ou la version de l'éditeur. For the publisher's version, please access the DOI link below./ Pour consulter la version de l'éditeur, utilisez le lien DOI ci-dessous.http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14637150610710927Business Process Management Journal, 12, 6, pp. 770-792, 2006-11-01 An Integrated approach for risk-based life cycle assessment and multicriteria decision-making -selection, design and evaluation of cleaner and greener processes Sadiq, R.; Khan, F. I. ABSTRACT Cleaner and greener technologies for process and product selection and design have gained popularity in recent years. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a systematic approach that enables selection of cleaner and greener products and processes. Recently, significant progress has been made for the use of LCA for product/process evaluation and selection, however, its use in process design and environmental decision-making has not been fully exploited. There are challenging activities which require trade-offs among conflicting attributes like cost, technical feasibility and environmental impacts. These attributes can be analysed at the early design stage by considering the full life cycle of a process (and/or a product). A cleaner and greener process referred economical, technically feasible and environmental friendly alternative. This paper proposes an integrated methodology for design by combining LCA with multi-criteria decisionmaking. This methodology is simple and applicable at the early design stage and guide decisionmaking under uncertainty. Application of the methodology is demonstrated through a case study of urea production.

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Implementing life cycle assessment in product development

Cited by 109 publications

References 9 publications

An integrated factor analysis model for product eco-design based on full life cycle assessment

An integrated factor analysis model for product eco-design based on full life cycle assessment

Tools and concepts for environmental sustainability in the food‐energy‐water nexus: Chemical engineering perspective

An integrated approach for risk‐based life cycle assessment and multi‐criteria decision‐making

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