Life Cycle Assessment of a municipal wastewater treatment plant: a case study in Suzhou, China

Wastewater treatment and reuse in urban agriculture: exploring the food, energy, water, and health nexus in Hyderabad, India

“…Work relating to the urban FEW-health nexus draws upon multiple strands of literature, emerging at three main fronts. First, regarding life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of WWTP technologies, many studies include embodied energy and GHGs along with avoided fertilizer (Corominas et al 2013), and many have been studied in developing cities (Friedrich et al 2009, Zhang et al 2010, Fine and Hadas 2012, Cornejo et al 2013, Li et al 2013, Cornejo et al 2014. However, only a few include the direct link with urban farming practices within the cities (Verbyla et al 2013, Symonds et al 2014.…”

LCA based comparative study of a microbial oil production starch wastewater treatment plant and its improvements with the combination of CHP system in Shandong, China

“…Total yearly emissions for a reference year in a reference region are normally used to calculate normalization figures (Huijbregts et al, 2003) and since Normalized impact indicators are non-dimensional, it makes the comparison between different impact categories easier. This optional normalization step can show the real magnitude of one or more impact indicator results to decision makers (Li et al, 2013).…”

Life Cycle Assessment Applications in Wastewater Treatment

“…SimaPro 7.0 software was used in this study and the construction phase, operation, and maintenance phase; sludge landfilling and the transportation of chemicals to the WWTP were all taken into consideration. The LCA results of Kunshan WWTP taking renewable energy (wind power) as the energy source proposed that enhancing the effluent quality will decrease the environmental impact [18]. Amores et al [19] empltoyed the Life Cycle Assessment methodology to carry out an environmental analysis of every stage of the urban water cycle in Tarragona, a Mediterranean city of Spain, taking into account a water supply system of a city considering water abstraction, potable water treatment, distribution network, wastewater treatment, reclaimed water, and desalination.…”

“…In the inventory analysis, allows of materials and energy across the system boundary are quantified [21]. Some of the studies cover only the operation phases [11] the others cover the construction phase [9,24] or the disposal and transportation phase [13,18]. In LCA studies, so many kinds of life cycle assessment methods, such as Eco Indicator 99, EDIP 96, EPS and Ecopoints 97 [22], and commercial software, such as SimaPro [18,25], Umberto 5.5 [26], and Gabi [27], has been used.…”