Life-Cycle Assessment: Inventory Guidelines and Principles

✍ Scribed by Battelle Memorial In, Mary Ann Curran,

• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 124
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Life-Cycle Assessment presents a brief overview of the development of the life-cycle assessment process and develops guidelines and principles for implementation of a product life-cycle inventory analysis. The book describes inventory analysis, impact analysis, and improvement analysis-the three components of a product life-cycle assessment. It discusses the major stages in a life cycle, including raw materials acquisition, materials manufacture, final product fabrication, filling/packaging/distribution, and consumer use and disposal.