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Life-cycle assessment : inventory guidelines and principles /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vigon, B. W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Lewis, [1994]
Subjects:
Waste Management.
Waste Products.
Environmental Monitoring.
Risk Assessment.
Table of Contents:
  • Life-cycle assessment concept
  • Brief history of life-cycle inventory analysis
  • Overview of life-cycle assessment methodology
  • Three components
  • Identifying and setting boundaries for life-cycle stages
  • Issues that apply to all stages
  • Applications of an inventory analysis
  • Format of this report
  • Procedural framework for life-cycle inventory
  • Define the purpose and scope of the inventory
  • Private sector uses
  • Public sector uses
  • Study specificity
  • Define the system boundaries
  • Devise an inventory checklist.
  • Institute a peer review process
  • Gather data
  • Identify subsystems
  • Sources of data
  • Develop stand-alone data
  • Construct a computational model
  • Present the results
  • Interpret and communicate the results
  • General issues in performing a life-cycle inventory
  • Using templates in life-cycle inventory analysis
  • Inputs in the product life-cycle inventory analysis
  • Outputs of the product life-cycle inventory analysis
  • Transportation
  • Coproduct allocation
  • Date issues
  • Data quality
  • Data time period
  • Specific data versus composite data.
  • Geographic specificity
  • Technology mixes/energy types
  • Data categories
  • Routine/fugitive/accidental releases
  • Special case boundary issues
  • Capital equipment
  • Personnel issues
  • Improper waste disposal
  • Issues applicable to specific life-cycle stages
  • Raw materials acquisition stage
  • Subsystem boundaries
  • Specific assumptions and conventions
  • Manufacturing stage
  • Materials manufacture step
  • Subsystem boundaries
  • Specific assumptions and conventions
  • Product fabrication step
  • Subsystem boundaries
  • Specific assumptions and conventions.
  • Filling/packaging/distribution step
  • Subsystem boundaries
  • Specific assumptions and conventions
  • Use/reuse/maintenance stage
  • Subsystem boundaries
  • Specific assumptions and conventions
  • Recycle/waste management stage
  • Subsystem boundaries
  • Specific assumptions and conventions
  • Clean Air Act (CAA)
  • Clean Water Act (CWA)
  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
  • Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).