June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
40h 48m
English
Johannes Junga, Niklas von der Assena and André Bardowa, aRWTH Aachen University, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Schinkelstr. 8, 52062 Aachen, Germany
Environmental process design methods often incorporate life-cycle assessment (LCA) as a deterministic black-box methodology. However, LCA suffers from several sources of ambiguity and uncertainty. These limitations are particularly severe for the multi-functional processes typical for the chemical industry. This work introduces a rigorous uncertainty assessment framework. The framework quantifies data uncertainties and also uncertainties that result from fixing multi-functionality in LCA by allocation. ...
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