Cycle analysis

There are three components in a life-cycle analysis ... 

Life-cycle analysis, in principle, allows an objective and complete view of the impact of processes and products on the environment. For a manufacturer, life-cycle analysis requires an acceptance of responsibility for the impact of manufacturing in total. This means not just the manufacturers operations and the disposal of waste created by those operations but also those of raw materials suppliers and product users. 

To the process designer, life-cycle analysis is useful because focusing exclusively on waste minimization at some point in the life cycle sometimes creates problems elsewhere in the cycle. The designer can often obtain useful insights by changing the boundaries of the system under consideration so that they are wider than those of the process being designed. 

R. G. Cochran and N. Tsoulfanidis, The NuclearFuel Cycle—-Analysis and Management, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, lU., 1988. 

W. E. Bishop, C. C. Kuta, aud C. A. Pittiager, "Life Cycle Analysis aud Its Relevaace to the Detergent Industry," paper presented Nen> Honan s 92 CSMA.IAOCS Detergent Industry Conference, Bolton Lauding, New York, Sept. 14, 1992. 

The TCP approach is relatively simple and can be easily applied to studies involving comparisons of different equipments, different processes, or even parts of processes. CCP has now emerged as the most realistic approach that can be employed in economic project analyses. It is the recommended procedure for pollution-prevention studies. The LCC approach is usually applied to the life-cycle analysis (LCA) of a product or seiwice. It has found occasional application in projec t analysis. 

Life-Cycle Analysis The aforementioned multimedia approach to evaluating a product s waste stream(s) aims to ensure that the treatment of one waste stream does not result in the generation or increase in an additional waste output. Clearly, impac ts resulting during the... 

Ereduc tion of a product or service must be evaluated over its entire istoiy or life cycle. This life-cycle analysis or total systems approach (Ref. 3) is crucial to identifying opportunities for improvement. As described earher, this type of evaluation identifies energy use, material inputs, and wastes generated during a products hfe from extraction and processing of raw materials to manufacture and transport of a product to the marketplace and finally to use and dispose of the produc t (Ref. 5). 

Capital, operating, and environmental controls, and some life-cycle analysis (Total Systems Approach)... 

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