A Process Systems Framework for Rapid Generation of Life Cycle Inventories for Pollution Control and Sustainability Evaluation.

ABSTRACT: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool that aids in sustainable decision-making among product and process alternatives. When implementing LCA, the efficient and accurate modeling of chemical processes for Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) generation is still challenging. Challenges include a lack of systematic design and simulation tools and approaches to develop chemical process models for obtaining and analyzing more realistic LCI results. In this contribution, a novel process systems framework is proposed for estimating LCI results when implementing pollution control technologies. This framework involves the development and incorporation of pollution control unit (PCU) modules into process simulation and generation of LCI data associated with the PCUs for use in a sustainability evaluation. Dif

SUBMITTER: Li S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6145478 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature