Life cycle assessment challenges

Grossmann, I.E. (2004) Challenges in the New Millennium Product Discovery and Design, Enterprise and Supply Chain Optimisation, Global Life Cycle Assessment. Computers and Chemical... 

Grossmann, I. E. (2004) Challenges in the new millennium Product discovery and design, enterprise and supply chain optimization, global life cycle assessment, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 29, 29-39. 

Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is part of a special section on the trends and challenges of the new environmental landscape. Another area seen as a priority is that of exposure estimations and the elucidation of the biological mechanisms of chemicals. Pollution prevention, which aims to deal with problems before they occur, is clearly becoming a salient approach to industrial ecology (Environmental Science Technology, 1996 Anastas and Lankey, 2000). 

A. Tukker, Risk Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment - The Common Challenge of Dealing with the Precautionary Frame, Risk Analysis, 2002,22, 821. 

An established instrument for ecological evaluation of processes or products is life-cycle-assessment, which is particularly useful for ecological comparison and optimization of processes and products. A consequent realization of the mentioned aspects and challenges will lead to a better and more sustainable situation on our planet for both nature and mankind. 

YeUishetty, M., Haque, N., and Dubreuil, A. (2012). Issues and challenges in life cycle assessment in the minerals and metals sector a chance to improve raw materials efficiency. In Sinding-Larsen, R. and WeUmer, F. (eds.) Non-Renewable Resource Issues Geo-Scientific and Societal Challenges, Series as part of the International Year of Planet Earth, Springer, New York, pp. 229-246. 

The fluoropolymer industry has already mastered successfully many of the important challenges in respect to the environmental impact of fluoropolymer manufacturing (e.g., ban of chlorine-containing fluorocarbons, explosion risks, PFOA-phase out). Life cycle assessments, including ecobalances (e.g., according to ISO 14040/14025) have been initiated also to demonstrate the value of specific fluoropolymers (recently such a study about ETFE was published [100]). While a comprehensive view of the impact of fluoropolymer manufacturing can be tedious to assemble, as the worldwide existing data from the various databases (e.g., ProBas [101], Ecoinvent [102]) are not... 

Cherubini, F., Strpimnan, A.H., 2011. Life cycle assessment of bioenergy systems state of the art and future challenges. Bioresource Technology 102, 437—451. 

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