生命周期评价在我国的应用

生命周期评价(LcA)是一种有效的清洁生产诊断和评价工具,其理念已经逐步引入我国,并在诸多领域得到不同程度的应用.根据清洁生产的要求,LCA有望在清洁生产审核、产品生态设计、废物管理、生态工业等方面发挥更大的作用.目前应尽快引进和消化吸收国际上先进的LCA方法,建立符合中国国情的LCA方法学体系和数据支撑体系,并在此基础上开展各个领域、各种形式的应用研究与示范.     

生命周期评价与清洁生产

以清洁生产为主的污染“防止”战略将取代以末端处理为主的污染“防治”战略。评价一项清洁生产技术，需要采用生命周期评价的方法对工艺、产品和能源进行整个生命周期的环境影响和资源消耗的分析。本文主要介绍生命周期评价的基本概念和基本方法，评述生命周期评价的研究结果的应用范围，并给出了生命周期评价研究的一些实例。     

生命周期评价与社会影响

生命周期评价(LCA)在提供数据、管理工具、软件和方法论中再加之更精确的测定方面已经取得了巨大的进步,然而与此同时仍然还有许多问题要解决.许多这些问题涉及到LCA方法在世界范围内的推广,以及这些方法如何通过建立数据库和按当地需要定制管理工具而适应发展中国家.……     

生命周期评价与社会影响

生命周期评价(LCA)在提供数据、管理工具、软件和方法论中再加之更精确的测定方面已经取得了巨大的进步,然而与此同时仍然还有许多问题要解决.许多这些问题涉及到LCA方法在世界范围内的推广,以及这些方法如何通过建立数据库和按当地需要定制管理工具而适应发展中国家.     

生命周期评价与社会影响

生命周期评价(LCA)在提供数据、管理工具、软件和方法论中再加之更精确的测定方面已经取得了巨大的进步,然而与此同时仍然还有许多问题要解决.许多这些问题涉及到LCA方法在世界范围内的推广,以及这些方法如何通过建立数据库和按当地需要定制管理工具而适应发展中国家.这类问题的解决可以在一个现有的结构内实现,诸如国家清洁生产中心,但所需投资必需要由工业、政府和国际机构分担.据《生命周期评价国际杂志》的编辑WalterKloepffer所论,可持续性是产品开发的最终目的.LCA举措已经集中在测定产品在超过其整个生命周期的经济和环境影响上…     

基于生命周期评价理论的建筑物环境影响评价系统

建筑物对环境有着巨大的影响。基于生命周期评价(LCA)理论,从材料的开采生产,建筑物的建造、运行直至建筑物被拆除来研究建筑物的环境影响。在一个涉及建筑材料、建筑设备以及建设场地的环境影响数据库的基础上,开发了一个建筑物的环境影响的评价模型BEPAS(BuildingEnvironmentalPerformanceAnalysisSystem)。模型从3个方面:建筑设备运行、建筑材料和建筑场地来研究建筑的环境影响。最后,测算了一个案例,分析了其环境影响水平。     

精炼铜行业的生命周期节能减排目标评价

按照生命周期评价方法,建立了精炼铜的生命周期模型,采用生命周期节能减排评价指标(ECER),对比评价了原生铜和再生铜生产的生命周期节能减排效果,计算了改变再生铜市场份额所能带来的节能减排削减幅度,并与精炼铜行业实现节能减排政策目标所需的综合削减幅度进行了对比.结果表明,再生铜比原生铜的ECER指标小62.5％,因此废铜的再生循环明显有利于节能减排政策目标的实现.但是,当再生铜市场份额由2010年的38.5％提升至《有色金属“十二五”发展规划》中要求的40％时,其综合削减幅度仅为13％,远未达到铜冶炼行业的目标综合削减幅度27.8％.因此,精炼铜行业不仅需要更大幅度地提高铜再生比例,同时还需要采用更多清洁技术和改进措施.本文方法可用于计算各种行业的节能减排目标综合削减幅度,从而帮助判断各种改进方案和措施是否足以达到节能减排宏观政策目标的要求.     

基于生命周期分析方法的家庭消费生态影响评价

建立了基于生命周期分析方法的可持续消费评价模型,并对2 0 0 0年中国城市家庭消费行为的生态影响进行了分析,比较了不同消费行为对生态影响的贡献。结果发现,2 0 0 0年中国城市家庭消费的生态影响主要来自与交通相关的消费行为,其次是食品和居住消费     

规模奶牛场2种粪便处理模式的生命周期评价

以规模奶牛养殖场为研究对象,采用生命周期评价方法比较奶牛粪便多级处理后全量还田(模式Ⅰ)和粪水达标处理(模式Ⅱ)2种粪便处理模式的环境影响潜值.结果表明:以处理1 t奶牛粪便计,与模式Ⅱ相比,模式Ⅰ的CO2、SO2、NOx、CO、CH4、VOC和烟尘可分别减排17.28、0.14、0.09、0.04、0.02、0.00...     

Carbon emission analysis of a residential building in China through life cycle assessment

In this paper, a quantitative life cycle model for carbon emission accounting was developed based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) theory. A residential building in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city (Tianjin, China) was selected as a sample, which had been constructed according to the concept of green environmental protection and sustainable development. In the scenario of this research, material production, construction, use and maintenance, and demolition phases were assessed by building carbon emission models. Results show that use and maintenance phase and material production phase are the most significant contributors to the life cycle carbon emissions of a building. We also analyzed some factor influences in LCA, including the thickness of the insulating layer and the length of building service life. The analysis suggest that thicker insulating layer does not necessarily produce less carbon emissions in the light of LCA, and if service life of a building increases, its carbon emissions during the whole life cycle will rise as well but its unit carbon emission will decrease inversely. Some advices on controlling carbon emissions from buildings are also provided.     

Environmental and economic analysis of aluminium recycling through life cycle assessment

Aluminium is the most-used metal in the world after steel, with a wide range of applications in the industrial field owing to its physical and mechanical properties. The aim of this study was environmental and economic analysis of secondary aluminium. In particular, this study demonstrated that aluminium recycling offers many advantages to both consumers and industry:

• Increased energy savings compared to primary aluminium production;

• Recovery and reuse of raw materials for future production avoids consumption of non-renewable resources;

• Reduction in landfill waste and consequent environmental damage;

• Reduction in bauxite mining which, in turn, will reduce the socio-economic impact on populations of those countries, mainly underdeveloped, that contain mines;

• Economic advantages for Italy, the first European producer of secondary aluminium, which lacks bauxite mines and has high energy costs.

This study used the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method, the modified Eco-indicator 99 method for damage calculation, and the SimaPro calculation code. The study examined secondary aluminium production by ICMET, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The economic and environmental evaluation utilised environmental information supplied by the company.     

战略环境评价技术方法与应用实践

战略环境评价是现阶段促进环境与发展综合决策,实现科学发展的最有力保障之一.但是,战略环评相关理论和技术方法不完善成为了制约其发展的瓶颈.综述了战略环境评价的主要技术方法及其在实践中的应用,总结了目前战略环境评价实践中存在的问题.由于战略环境评价的研究对象是经济-社会-环境的复合系统,涉及因子众多而且复杂.因此,以为决策提供环境可持续依据为目标的战略环境评价,其评价方法将逐步与政策、规划和计划的方法相融合,形成以决策过程为核心的综合决策模式,将成为未来战略环境评价技术方法的主流,而多种评价方法的综合集成是战略环境评价的发展趋势.     

Identification and assessment of environmental burdens of Chinese copper production from a life cycle perspective

The environmental burdens of Chinese copper production have been identified and quantified in the context of typical technologies, materials supplies and environmental emissions by a life cycle approach. Primary and secondary copper production using copper ores and scraps, respectively, were analyzed in detail. The flash and bath smelting approaches and the recycling of copper scraps were selected as representative copper production processes. A quantitative analysis was also conducted to assess the influence of material transport distance in copper production. Life cycle assessment （LCA） results showed that resources depletion and human health contribute significantly to environmental burdens in Chinese copper production. In addition, the secondary copper production has dramatically lower environmental burdens than the primary production. There is no obvious distinction in overall environmental burdens in primary copper production by flash or bath smelting approach. However, resources depletion is lower and the damage to human health is higher for flash smelting approach. Ecosystem quality damage is slight for both approaches. Environ- mental burdens from the mining stage contribute most in all life cycle stages in primary copper production. In secondary copper production, the electrolytic refining stage dominates. Based on the life cycle assessment results, some suggestions for improving environmental performance were proposed to meet the sustainable development of Chinese copper industry.     

锂离子电池常用有机液体电解质中有机溶剂的生命周期评价

评价了锂离子二次电池常用有机液体电解质对环境的影响.在其它条件相同的情况下,电解液中不同有机溶剂配比的不同,使得其对环境的影响值不同,碳酸乙烯酯和碳酸甲乙酯两种有机溶剂按不同比例混合,比例越大对环境影响越小.通过评价和分析两种有机溶剂对环境影响值的贡献率,可为二次电池研发者提供选择最优配比的方法.     

Clustering economic sectors in China on a life cycle basis to achieve environmental sustainability

To improve material efficiency, industrial structure optimization becomes a focal point in Chinese industrial and environmental policies. It is crucial to cluster economic sectors and determine their priority for industrial and environmental policy implementation. Integrating a set of criteria, a hybrid input-output model and the hierarchical cluster analysis, this study clusters China’s economic sectors and determines their priority on a life cycle basis. China’s economic sectors are clustered into three clusters. Industrial structure changes (industrial policy) should encourage the development of sectors in cluster 1 and limit the development of sectors in cluster 2. Technology development and materials recycling (two environmental policies) should mainly focus on sectors in clusters 1 and 2. Future industrial policies in China should limit the development of two sectors named Manufacture of metal products and Extraction of petroleum and natural gas. Instead of limiting some industries by command-and-control, the best policy option is to remedy environmental standards and law enforcement. Enterprises belonging to the identified key sectors from the viewpoint of direct production impacts should be concerned to achieve enterprise sustainability. To achieve sustainable production chains, the identified key sectors from the viewpoint of accumulative production impacts should be concerned. For sustainable consumption, the identified key sectors from the viewpoint of consumption impacts should be concerned to transform consumption styles. Most of environmental pressure can be alleviated not only by technical improvements and material recycling, but also by the development of economic sectors in cluster 1.     

Life cycle assessment of the winter wheat-summer maize production system on the North China Plain

A life cycle assessment (LCA) method was used to examine the environmental impact of the winter wheat-summer maize production system on the North China Plain. The LCA considered the entire system required to produce 1 ton each of winter wheat and summer maize. The analysis included raw material extraction and transportation, agrochemical production and transportation, and arable farming in the field. First, all emissions and resource consumption connected to the different processes were listed in a life cycle inventory (LCI) and related to a common unit (1 ton of grain). Subsequently, a life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) was conducted, in which the inventory data were aggregated into indicators for environmental effects, including energy depletion, climate change, acidification, aquatic eutrophication, human toxicity, aquatic and terrestrial ecotoxicity. For winter wheat systems, energy depletion and acidification were the most relevant environmental impacts, and energy depletion and aquatic eutrophication were the primary concerns for summer maize systems. The results revealed that the most important source of environmental impact in the winter wheat-summer maize production system in Huantai County was the production and application of nitrogen fertilisers. The environmental impacts of winter wheat were much stronger than those of summer maize due to higher inputs and lower use efficiency of agrochemicals.     

An updated review and conceptual model for optimizing WEEE management in China from a life cycle perspective

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is a rapidly growing category of solid waste. China is now facing WEEE problems from both growing domestic generation and illegal imports. Currently, the amount of WEEE formally treated has increased steadily in China. The layout of the formal sector has been basically completed. Meanwhile, by controlling illegal disassembly activities, the informal sector has been gradually transformed to formal one. Beginning with the overview of the WEEE recycling industry in China, this paper first lists the latest progress in WEEE management from such aspects as the new edition of China RoHS Directive (Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive), the updated WEEE Treatment List, the updated WEEE fund standard, the revised National Hazardous Waste List, and a brand-new plan on extended producer responsibility. In so doing, we elucidate the current challenges on WEEE management in detail: the imbalance between fund levies and subsidies, the gap in the supervision scope, the homogenization of recycling industry and the lack of life cycle approaches. Finally, a conceptual framework for integrated management of WEEE is proposed from a life cycle perspective. Overall, the life cycle management of WEEE includes three aspects: developing life cycle information for decision-making, implementing life cycle engineering with life cycle tools, and improving WEEE legislation based on life cycle thinking. By providing specific operating strategies, this life cycle framework should help to optimize WEEE management in developing countries where legislation is imperfect and the recycling system is relatively immature.

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Development and application of a comprehensive ecological risk assessment indicator system in Xiamen,China

Urban ecological risk is one of the important factors that may restrict the social and economic development. Therefore, it is of great significance to carry out a comprehensive assessment of ecological risks so that an ecological risk prevention and control plan can be scientifically formulated. In this paper, a comprehensive ecological risk assessment indicator system of Xiamen was established based on local ecological properties and socioeconomic status. This indicator system covers seven indicators including air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution, fresh water consumption, change in land use, occupation of key zones with ecological functions, and road network expansion. Based on this indicator system and in conjunction with the single factor assessment of ecological risks, this study constructed a model of comprehensive ecological risk assessment and forecasted the comprehensive ecological risk of Xiamen in 2020. The results showed that the comprehensive ecological risk level of Xiamen in 2020 is medium and the main stressors are the discharge of air and water pollutants. From the perspective of risk receptors, i.e. the ecosystem services, the risk posed to the ecosystem services associated to the maintenance of air quality and water purification is the highest. Therefore, this study proposed the recommendations on ecological risk prevention and regulation in Xiamen based on the comprehensive assessment of ecological risks, in the hope to provide scientific support for local ecological protection and sustainable development.