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Funamentals of Life Cycle Assessment and Specificity of Biorefineries

Gnansounou, Edgard  
Gnansounou, Edgard  
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Pandey, Ashok
2017
LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF BIOREFINERIES

The use of methods to assess environmental performances of industrial products became popular in the sixties with the growing environment concerns. The life cycle assessment (LCA) emerged in the 1990s as a response to the need of a more structured methodology and inherited from the REPA – Resource and Environmental Profile Analysis. From the beginning LCA was supported by strong efforts of standardization led by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and the International Organization for standardization (ISO). This chapter introduces LCA methodology based on the four-stage approach popularized by ISO. Its theoretical background is presented as well. The strengths and weaknesses of the methodology are discussed and a new allocation approach is proposed. Extension of environmental Life cycle assessment to social, economic and organizational LCA is outlined. Finally, the chapter concludes with a presentation of the perspectives of LCA development towards an integrated Life cycle sustainability.

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DOI
10.1016/B978-0-444-63585-3.00002-4
Author(s)
Gnansounou, Edgard  
Editors
Gnansounou, Edgard  
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Pandey, Ashok
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF BIOREFINERIES
ISBN of the book

978-0-444-63585-3

Start page

41

End page

75

Subjects

LCA methodology

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allocation

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environmental assessment

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sustainability assessment

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EPFL

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GR-GN  
Available on Infoscience
March 10, 2017
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