Life Cycle Assessment of bioprocesses and bioproducts
LCA methodology, material and energy inventories, environmental impacts indicators, impacts allocation, uncertainties analysis, impacts reduction
ONLINE COURSE: On-demand
COURSE FEE: 300 € per session
COURSE ORGANIZATION
Course organized in 7 sessions
Sessions scheduling: suggested 1 session per week
Effort: 4 - 8 hours per session
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Life Cycle Assessment course teaches the methodology of Life Cycle Assessment for the environmental evaluation of process and products. It covers life-cycle materials and energy inventories, evaluation and allocation of impacts indicators, comparative LCA assessment, indicators uncertainty analysis, and impacts reduction strategies.
LCA CASE STUDY
The guiding thread of the course is a Life Cycle Assessment of the bioethanol fuel from sugar beets. The project objective is to evaluate the ethanol indicators for eight impacts related to resources consumption, air and water emissions. The bioethanol life cycle involves the steps of farming, industrial transformation, transports and ethanol combustion
INSTRUCTORS
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Latifa CHEBIL, Prof. ENSAIA
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Jean-Marc ENGASSER, BioProcess Digital
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ?
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The methodology of Life Cycle Assessment for the environmental evaluation of processes and products
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What are the LCA environmental impacts related to resources consumption and air and water emissions?
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Evaluate the life-cycle material and energy inventories
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Determine the life-cycle environmental impacts indicators
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Allocate impacts indicators between products and by-products
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Compare the environmental impacts of products of same functionalities
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Assess the uncertainties of the impacts indicators calculations
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Develop strategies to reduce the environmental impacts of bioprocesses
DIGITAL LEARNING
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Learning platform with course resources
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Live or recorded slideshow videos
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LCA study on spreadsheet templates with self-corrections and guides
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Online quizzes
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Online collective or one-to-one tutoring
COURSE PROGRAM
SESSION 1: LCA SCOPE, METHODOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Life Cycle Assessment obective and methodology. Environmental impacts related to resources and emissions
SESSION 2: MATERIAL INVENTORY
Case study project: LCA of bioethanol fuel from sugar beets. Material inventory of bioethanol life cycle
SESSION 3: ENERGY INVENTORY
Energy inventory of bioethanol life cycle
SESSION 4: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS INDICATORS
Evaluation of eight environmental impacts indicators for the bioethanol life cycle
SESSION 5: IMPACTS ALLOCATION AND COMPARATIVE LCA
Impacts indicators allocation between bioethanol and byproducts. Comparative bioethanol and gasoline LCA
SESSION 6: SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF IMPACTS INDICATORS
Evaluation and analysis of impacts indicators uncertainties by the uncertainty propagation method
SESSION 7: IMPACTS INDICATORS REDUCTION STRATEGIES
Reduction of the environmental impacts indicators by water and energy integration