LCA of an industrial luminaire using product environmental footprint method

Wu, You; Su, Daizhong

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127159

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“…The LCA methodology is a standardized procedure (ISO 14,040 [12] and ISO 14,044 [12]) [20] that offers a tool to properly assess the impact of an entire product life cycle on a certain factor generally linked to the environment [21]. It has been already applied to different products and branches [15,22,23]; however, there is still some lack of knowledge within the industry for what the LCA utility concerns [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Its success as a methodology to provide a full environmental assessment of every variable embedded in a product's life is based on the consideration of everything linked to the product itself [22], starting from the extraction of the raw material that composes it down to the processes for handling the product at its end of life (EOL) [22].…”

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Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Prado-Galiñanes

Domingo

2021

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Industries are nowadays not only expected to produce goods and provide services, but also to do this sustainably. What qualifies a company as sustainable implies that its activities must be defined according to the social and ecological responsibilities that are meant to protect the society and the environment in which they operate. From now on, it will be necessary to consider and measure the impact of industrial activities on the environment, and to do so, one key parameter is the carbon footprint. This paper demonstrates the utility of the LCI as a tool for immediate application in industries. Its application shall facilitate decision making in industries while choosing amongst different scenarios to industrialize a certain product with the lowest environmental impact possible. To achieve this, the carbon footprint of a given product was calculated by applying the LCI method to several scenarios that differed from each other only in the supply-chain model. As a result of this LCI calculation, the impact of the globalization of a good’s production was quantified not only financially, but also environmentally. Finally, it was concluded that the LCI/LCA methodology can be considered as a fundamental factor in the new decision-making strategy that sustainable companies must implement while deciding on the business and industrial plan for their new products and services.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Prado-Galiñanes

Domingo

2021

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“…The PEF guideline sacrifices flexibility by minimizing the number of choices and decisions that the user would have to take [39]. PEF pilots have also been conducted by the European Commission during 2013-2016, which includes 26 pilots covering different type of product or sectors [40]. Since the completion of the pilots, this method attracted more and more attention to improve the product sustainability throughout the entire product life cycle.…”

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“…Currently, there is also a lack of PEF in electronics devices. Wu and Su [40] presented a paper with a LCA of a LED luminaire using the PEF methodology. They used the latest Environmental Footprint (EF) secondary database in the openLCA software tool [50].…”

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Prospective Environmental and Economic Assessment of a Sensor Network

et al. 2021

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Sustainability is becoming of vital importance in project management, and a life cycle assessment (LCA) can ensure a body of knowledge to bear in mind the environmental burdens the project involves. In this study, two different ways of supplying energy to a sensor network are analyzed. Firstly, we analyze the environmental impact of the devices connected to the public grid. Secondly, we analyze the completely full off-grid system, with the sensor connected to a photovoltaic (PV) panel. Our findings show that the off-grid option has a greater number of benefits than the grid-connected option in terms of environmental impacts, although it is less economically advantageous. In a detailed analysis of the off-grid scenario, it can be observed that the battery is the component with the highest impact, so actions to try to reduce consumption, and, therefore, the battery size and its negative impact are taken. After reducing the battery size, the break-even point was reached, providing a net economic benefit of EUR 0.23 sensor/year. However, this analysis refers to a single sensor, and although the environmental and economic benefits seem low, in an economy of scale, this could result in large savings if these types of sensors are massively installed.

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“…Lighting accounts for 15% of global electricity consumption and 5% of total global GHG emissions, as reported by the UN Environment Programme (UN Environment Program, 2017), thus minimizing its impact can be a contributing solution to tackle climate change. Although the energy in use accounts for the highest proportion of the total environmental impact of lighting products (Denneman & de Stoppelaar, 2015; Tähkämö et al., 2014; Wu & Su, 2021), improving the energy efficiency is not the only way to tackle the problem. A report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) (2021) highlighted that a great effort is being put into developing more energy‐efficient strategies; however, it is also important to keep in mind the embodied emissions of products.…”

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Embodied carbon quantification of luminaires using life cycle assessment and CIBSE TM65 methodologies: A comparison case study

Mazzei,

Saint,

Kay

et al. 2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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The European legislative landscape on sustainability is steadily growing to meet objectives to reach net zero targets by mid‐century. In this context, companies and manufacturers may soon be legally required to provide quantification of the environmental impact of their products and services. A key challenge is applying a consistent and robust methodology that ensures comparability between assessments made by different companies, as there is still fragmentation among environmental impact reporting methodologies. The objective of this study is to analyze and compare the results of two different methodologies for the calculation of the embodied carbon in lighting products using the cradle‐to‐grave approach. One is the globally known life cycle assessment (LCA) method, and the other is Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Technical Memorandum 65's (TM65) mid‐level calculation methodology, which has been specifically tailored to building services. The two were applied to six different luminaires to evaluate their differences. Results show that the values of the embodied carbon calculated with TM65 are higher than those calculated with LCA and that the weight of the products plays a crucial role in creating discrepancies between the two methodologies.

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LCA of an industrial luminaire using product environmental footprint method

Cited by 15 publications

References 21 publications

Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Prospective Environmental and Economic Assessment of a Sensor Network

Embodied carbon quantification of luminaires using life cycle assessment and CIBSE TM65 methodologies: A comparison case study

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