Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Processes through the new LCSoft Software-tool

Perapong Supawanich; Pomthong Malakul; Rafiqul Gani

Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Processes through the new LCSoft Software-tool

Perapong Supawanich, Pomthong Malakul, Rafiqul Gani

Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Chulalongkorn University

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Life Cycle Assessment or LCA is an effective tool for quantifying the potential environmental impacts of products, processes, or services in order to support the selection making of desired products and/or processes from different alternatives. For more sustainable process designs, technical requirements have to be evaluated together with environmental and economic aspects. The LCSoft software-tool has been developed to perform LCA as a stand-alone tool as well as integrated with other process design tools such as process simulation, economic analysis (ECON), and sustainable process design (SustainPro). An extended version of LCSoft is presented in this paper. The development work consists of four main tasks. The first task consists of the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) calculation function. The second task deals with the extension of the Life Cycle Inventory database and improvement of the Life Cycle Impact Assessment calculation. The third task deals with analysis to investigate the contributions of processes, LCI results, and environmental impact results with respect to the production stage. Also, an uncertainty analysis is included to investigate the influence of uncertain parameters on the LCI assessment results. The fourth task has been added to validate and improve LCSoft by testing it against several case studies and compare the assessment results with other available tools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering
Editors	Krist V. Gernaey, Jakob K. Huusom, Rafiqul Gani
Number of pages	2549
Volume	37
Publisher	Elsevier
Publication date	2015
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering : 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 31 May 2015 → 4 Jun 2015 http://www.pse2015escape25.dk/

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Conference	25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	31/05/2015 → 04/06/2015
Internet address	http://www.pse2015escape25.dk/

Series	Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
ISSN	1570-7946

Keywords

Life Cycle Assessment
Life Cycle Inventory
Contribution analysis
Uncertainty analysis

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Supawanich, Perapong ; Malakul, Pomthong ; Gani, Rafiqul. / Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Processes through the new LCSoft Software-tool. Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering . editor / Krist V. Gernaey ; Jakob K. Huusom ; Rafiqul Gani. Vol. 37 Elsevier, 2015. (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering).

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Supawanich, P, Malakul, P & Gani, R 2015, Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Processes through the new LCSoft Software-tool. in KV Gernaey, JK Huusom & R Gani (eds), Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering . vol. 37, Elsevier, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering , Copenhagen, Denmark, 31/05/2015.

Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Processes through the new LCSoft Software-tool. / Supawanich, Perapong; Malakul, Pomthong; Gani, Rafiqul.
Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering . ed. / Krist V. Gernaey; Jakob K. Huusom; Rafiqul Gani. Vol. 37 Elsevier, 2015. (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering).

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Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Processes through the new LCSoft Software-tool

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