EdUp - Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment
Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Management | Sommersemester 2024
TUBAFdigital - Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment
Learning objectives
The students
- analyse material and energy flows from a system’s and from a product/service perspective,
- use the standardized terminology,
- name and describe the steps for conducting MFA & LCA studies,
- discuss the achievements and shortcomings of common methodological toolsets and data bases in the field,
- gather necessary information, choose suitable methods, and apply these for simple MFA & LCA studies, and
- discuss the quality of material flow analysis studies and life cycle assessment studies.
Contents of the course
- Systems and life cycle thinking
- Material flow networks
- Material and energy flow balancing
- Material flow modelling
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Goal and Scope definition
- Life Cycle Inventories (LCI)
- Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA)
- Interpretation and Disclosure
- Current trends and developments
- Software systems and data bases for material flow analysis and life cycle assessment
- Case studies
“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Erasmus+ National Agency for Higher Education (German Academic Exchange Service). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.”
Lade Bewertungsübersicht
Lade Übersicht