This book offers an itemized analysis of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), for use in any processes, products, services, industries, organizations and so forth. Various challenges faced during applications of LCA, and its extension are discussed including their benefits. Further, the book provides practical examples of LCA in different core sectors, such as cement and construction. Each chapter functions as a stand-alone unit within the book and defines its individual role within the overall concept of LCA.
Features:
- Covers Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and future challenges including its practical applications as climate change tool.
- Connects life cycle management and LCA/environmental management.
- Explains benefits of LCA studies for both internal and external purpose in terms of various impact parameters.
- Identifies different raw materials or alternate energy mediums for changing inputs to reduce environmental impacts.
- Discusses extension of LCA concept like LCC, LCSA, SCLA, and OLCA.
This book is aimed at professionals in all engineering areas and environmental studies.
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Life Cycle Thinking
1.2 Corporate Sustainability
1.3 Life Cycle Analysis
Chapter 2. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
2.1 Background
2.2 Global Movement
2.3 Necessity of Environment Management System
2.4 International Standards
2.5 Implementation
2.6 Extension
2.7 Rebooting
2.8 Reduction of Carbon and Water Footprints
2.9 Reorientation
2.10 Factor to Consider
2.11 Sustainable Future
2.12 Continual Improvement
Chapter 3. LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
3.1 Backdrop
3.2 Framework
3.3 Goal and Scope
3.4 Inventory Analysis
3.5 Data Source
3.6 Data Variability and Consistency
3.7 Validation
3.8 Process Flow
3.9 Functional Unit
3.10 System Boundaries
3.11 Allocation Procedure
3.12 Impact Assessment
3.13 Limitations and Uncertainties
3.14 Greenhouse Gas
3.15 Acidification Potential
3.16 Resource Depletion
3.17 Land Use
3.18 Normalization
3.19 Uncertainty Analysis
3.20 Interpretation
3.21 Classification
Chapter 4. LIFE CYCLE TECHNIQUES
4.1 Life Cycle Assessment – Environment
4.2 Life Cycle Costing
4.3 Social Life Cycle Assessment
4.4 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
4.5 Organisation Life Cycle Assessment
Chapter 5. GUIDANCE FOR LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY
5.1 Life cycle inventories
5.2 Data collection
5.3 Documentation and review
5.4 Input and Output Data
5.5 Capacity Building
5.6 Future Outlook
5.7 Integration
Chapter 6. APPLICATION OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
6.1 Life Cycle Thinking – Policy Makers
6.2 Attribution Life Cycle Assessment
6.3 Consequential Life Cycle Assessment
6.4 Integration and Harmonization
6.5 Industry Unit
6.6 Small and Medium Size Enterprises
6.7 Corporate Level
6.8 Consumer Prospective
Chapter 7. CLIMATE CHANGE AND LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
7.1 On the Horizon
7.2 Environment Mechanism
7.3 Reduction Measure of GHG
7.4 Carbon Sequestration
7.5 Carbon Capture through Algal
7.6 Ozone Formation
7.7 Eutrophication
7.8 Ecotoxicity
7.9 Human Toxicity
7.10 Abiotic Resources
7.11 Afforestation
7.12 Land Use
7.13 Water Use
Chapter 8. LIFE CYCLE INTERPRETATION
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Identification of Issues
8.3 Evaluation
8.4 Sensitivity Check
8.5 Consistency Check
8.6 Interpretation
8.7 Critical Review
Chapter 9. CASE STUDIES OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
9.1 USA
9.2 UK
9.3 Spain
9.4 Brazil
9.5 Switzerland
9.6 Indonesia
9.7 Czech Republic
9.8 China
9.9 German
9.10 India
Chapter 10. FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR LCA
10.1 Awareness
10.2 Mitigation of Climate Change
10.3 Globalization
10.4 Integration
10.5 Exergy Assimilation
10.6 Circular Economy
10.7 Carbon Capture and Utilization
10.8 Carbon Neutrality
10.9 Sustainable Consumption and Production
10.10 LCA in Higher Education
10.11 Data Inventory and Software
10.12 Conclusion
Biography
Dr Surjya Narayana Pati, Senior Consultant (LCA), Director, NICE and former Joint Director, National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB), has a rich research experience spanning over more than four decades in the areas of Life Cycle Management, Environmental Management, Quality Control, Project Planning and Monitoring.
A CSIR Scholar and doctorate in Chemical Kinetics in 1978. He has been a front runner for incorporating the concept of Life cycle Assessment (LCA) in Indian cement and construction industry for green and sustainable development. He was associated with several LCA projects. He was advisor to LCA project on Pet Bottles carried out by IIT New Delhi. He was leading the NCB team which worked for Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) projects for Developing Environmental Norms for Indian Cement, Refractory and Plywood industries. He was associated more than seventy-five R&D and Sponsored projects. He has published more than sixty papers in different National and International Journals and Proceedings. He has reviewed several papers for International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (IJLCA). He was a member of various committees of Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) on Environmental Management and LCA subcommittees. He was faculty member for different Institutes in more than fifty training courses on different topics of environmental management specially on LCA. He was also member of number of review committees for Ministry of Environment and Forest (Govt. of India) funded mega projects. He has guided several B. Tech, and M. Tech students of Environmental Engineering for their Project Assignment. He has also contributed papers on different seminars and workshops on Life Cycle Assessment organized by UNEP & SETAC during 2010, 2012, 2014 and International Life Cycle Management Conference of 2015 and 2017. He has visited number of Universities and Research Institutes of foreign countries.
