A Step Forward Life Cycle Assessment to Optimize Products and Increase Company Eco-design Competencies

Rossi, Marta; Cappelletti, Federica; Germani, Michele

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15928-2_6

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“…Concerning more limited realities, the LCA is acquiring a more decisive role in the product and process design too: design strategies are tested, and environmental benefits are highlighted thanks to LCA analysis (Cor and Zwolinski, 2014;Subramanian et al, 2023), design strategies are defined according to the obtained results (Rossi et al, 2023) or to evaluate products in the last phase of design (Tchertchian et al, 2009). Consequently, the LCA results need to be assessed in a very accurate way, otherwise, governmental and industrial decision-making processes would rely on an unstable basis.…”

Section: Alca and Clamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Dynamic Approach for Life Cycle Assessment. The Case of Domestic Refrigerators

2023

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The Life Cycle Assessment is a well-stated methodology whose application has recently spread over a multitude of sectors. Thus the need for very accurate and reliable analysis. The present work investigates how to achieve reliable and faithful results while still maintaining a micro-systemic approach and how to handle the evolution of the real cases through commercial solutions available. The works present an innovative dynamic approach that aims at filling the discrepancy between the attributional Life Cycle Assessment which is focused on the product at the point to appear short-sighted and isolated from the surrounding evolving system and the consequential, which is willing to include the consequences of the evolution of the surrounding system, with increased complexity. The approach is applied to the case of a domestic refrigerator; the application reveals a discrepancy of 16% between the results of the dynamic and attributional analysis and registered doubled environmental impacts than the consequential, carried out with the support of commercial datasets. The approach respects the 5 main criteria for methods in environmental systems analysis, namely feasibility, accuracy, easiness in communication, inspiration, robustness.

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Section: Alca and Clamentioning

confidence: 99%