Life-Cycle Assessment presents a brief overview of the development of the life-cycle assessment process and develops guidelines and principles for implementation of a product life-cycle inventory analysis. The book describes inventory analysis, impact analysis, and improvement analysis-the three components of a product life-cycle assessment. It discusses the major stages in a life cycle, including raw materials acquisition, materials manufacture, final product fabrication, filling/packaging/distribution, and consumer use and disposal.
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The concept of life-cycle assessment is to evaluate the environmental effects associated with any given activity from the initial gathering of raw material from the earth until the point at which all residuals are returned to the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bar soap system, coproduct allocation, raw materials acquisition stage, precombustion energy, bar soap example, waterborne emissions, waterborne wastes, system flow diagram, industrial scrap, inventory analyses, product fabrication, waste management options, environmental releases, generation subsystems, environmental emissions, cycle inventory, subsystem boundaries, inventory analysis, environmental loadings, secondary packaging, industrial solid waste, inventory studies, energy acquisition, solid waste stream, intermediate materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The concept of life-cycle assessment is to evaluate the environmental effects associated with any given activity from the initial gathering of raw material from the earth until the point at which all residuals are returned to the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bar soap system, coproduct allocation, raw materials acquisition stage, precombustion energy, bar soap example, waterborne emissions, waterborne wastes, system flow diagram, industrial scrap, inventory analyses, product fabrication, waste management options, environmental releases, generation subsystems, environmental emissions, cycle inventory, subsystem boundaries, inventory analysis, environmental loadings, secondary packaging, industrial solid waste, inventory studies, energy acquisition, solid waste stream, intermediate materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows on page 6, and Back Matter
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Kirk 5e Print Continuation Series) (Volume 4) by Kirk-Othmer on page 33
- World Energy: Looking Ahead to 2020 - Report by Conservation Commission of the World Energy Conference on page 6
- Boustead Energy by BOUSTEAD in Back Matter
- Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty by Howard Raiffa in Back Matter
- Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment by Mary Ann Curran on 4 pages
- Integrated Life-Cycle and Risk Assessment for Industrial Processes (Advanced Methods in Resource & Waste Management) by Guido Sonnemann on page 38, page 71, and page 260
- Product Design for the Environment: A Life Cycle Approach by Fabio Giudice on page 105, and page 108
- Life-Cycle Assessment in Building and Construction: A State-Of-The-Art Report of Setac Europe by Shpresa Kotaji in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Industrial Ecology: Environmental Chemistry and Hazardous Waste by Stanley E. Manahan on page 38, and page 97
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