Life cycle interpretation — a brand new perspective?

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Saur
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Interpretation ◽  
New Perspective

An integrated approach to assess both risk and impacts related with geo-resources exploration and exploitation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vittoria Gargiulo ◽  
Alexander Garcia ◽  
Ortensia Amoroso ◽  
Paolo Capuano
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Risk Sources ◽  
New Perspective

<p>To the welfare of both economy and communities, our society widely exploits geo-resources. Nevertheless, with benefits come risks and even impacts. Understanding how a given project intrinsically bares such risks and impacts is of critical importance for both industry and society. In particular, it is fundamental to distinguish between the specific impacts related to exploiting a given energy resource and those shared with the exploitation of other energy resources. In order to do so, it is useful to differentiate impacts in two categories: routine impacts – caused by ordinary routine operations, investigated by Life-cycle assessment with a deterministic approach – and risk impacts – caused by incidents due to system failure or external events, investigated by risk assessments with a probabilistic approach. The latter category is extremely interesting because it includes low probability/high consequences events, which may not be completely independent or unrelated, causing the most disastrous and unexpected damages. For this reason, it is becoming more and more crucial to develop a strategy to assess not only the single risks but also their possible interaction and to harmonize the result obtained for different risk sources. Of particular interest for this purpose is the Multi-Hazard/Multi-Risk Assessment.</p><p>The aim of our work is to present an approach for a comprehensive analysis of impacts of geo-resource development projects. Routine operations as well as risks related to extreme events (as e.g.,seismic or meteorological) are linked using a Multi-Hazard Risk (MHR) approach built upon a Life-Cycle analysis (LCA). Given the complexity of the analysis, it is useful to adopt a multi-level approach: (a) an analysis of routine operations, (b) a qualitative identification of risk scenarios and (c) a quantitative multi-risk analysis performed adopting a bow-tie approach. In particular, after studying the two tools, i.e. LCA and MRA, we have implemented a protocol to interface them and to evaluate certain and potential impacts.</p><p>The performance of the proposed approach is illustrated on a virtual site (based on a real one) for geothermal energy production. As a result, we analyse the outcome of the LCA, identify risk-bearing elements and events, to finally obtain harmonised risk matrices for the case study. Such approach, on the one hand, can be used to assess both deterministic and stochastic impacts, on the other hand, can also open new perspective in harmonizing them. Using the LCA outputs as inputs of the MRA can allow the analyst to focus on particular risk pathways that could otherwise seem less relevant but can open new perspective in the risk/impact evaluation of single elements, as we show in this case study.</p><p>This work has been supported by S4CE ("Science for Clean Energy") project, funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 - R&I Framework Programme, under grant agreement No 764810 and by PRIN-MATISSE (20177EPPN2) project funded by Italian Ministry of Education and Research.</p>

Numerical Approaches to Life Cycle Interpretation - The case of the Ecoinvent’96 database (10 pp)

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinout Heijungs ◽  
Sangwon Suh ◽  
René Kleijn
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Interpretation ◽  
Numerical Approaches

scholarly journals Analisis sumber utama emisi gas rumah kaca pada perkebunan kelapa sawit dengan pendekatan life cycle assessment

2019 ◽  
pp. 318-330
Author(s):  
Danang Harimurti ◽  
Hariyadi Hariyadi ◽  
E Noor
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Inventory ◽  
Scope Definition ◽  
Life Cycle Interpretation ◽  
Life Cycle Impact ◽  
Goal And Scope ◽  
Goal And Scope Definition

Perkembangan perkebunan kelapa sawit di Indonesia mengalami peningkatan pesat. Dibalik perkembangan pesat komoditas kelapa sawit, bermunculan masalah dan isu negatif mengenai perkebunan kelapa sawit sebagai penyebab kerusakan lingkungan dan peningkatan emisi Gas Rumah Kaca (GRK). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis emisi GRK yang ditimbulkan dari kegiatan perkebunan kelapa sawit dengan menggunakan metode Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). LCA adalah suatu metode untuk melakukan analisis dan evaluasi secara menyeluruh dari dampak lingkungan dalam siklus hidupnya. Tahapan metode LCA adalah goal and scope definition, life cycle inventory, life cycle impact assessment, dan life cycle interpretation. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa emisi GRK yang ditimbulkan dalam kegiatan perkebunan kelapa sawit selama 1 siklus berbeda-beda. Emisi GRK yang ditimbulkan pada fase TM (umur tanaman >3 tahun) menjadi yang terbesar dengan rata-rata 1887,64 kg CO2-eq/Ha, sementara emisi GRK pada fase TBM (umur tanaman 0-3 tahun) sebesar 989,63 kg CO2-eq/Ha. Sumber terbesar penyumbang emisi berasal dari kegiatan pemupukan. Pada fase TM, kegiatan pemupukan menyumbang emisi GRK sebesar 920,22 kg CO2-eq/Ha dengan jenis pupuk paling dominan menyumbang emisi GRK adalah pupuk urea dan MOP yaitu sebesar 369,67 kg CO2-eq/Ha dan 179,56 kg CO2-eq/Ha.

scholarly journals New record of Tetrastichus howardi (Olliff) as a parasitoid of Diatraea saccharalis (Fabr.) on maize

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Cruz ◽  
Ana Carolina Redoan ◽  
Rafael Braga da Silva ◽  
Maria de Lourdes Corrêa Figueiredo ◽  
Angélica Maria Penteado-Dias
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Saccharum Officinarum ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Diatraea Saccharalis ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
Corn Plants ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Sorghum Bicolor L

Diatraea saccharalis (Fabr.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) spends the largest part of its life cycle inside the stalk of the host plant,which provides protection against the action of conventional control methods. Biological control has been considered a viable alternative to control this pest in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) and corn (Zea mays L.), two pest preferential hosts. This paper reports the occurrence in Brazil of Tetrastichus howardi (Olliff) (Hymenoptera; Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) parasitizing pupae of D. saccharalis obtained from corn plants. It also includes preliminary biological data about the insect. A single female of T. howardi is able to produce up to 66 offspring using a single pupa of the host D. Saccharalis and apparently does not distinguish between the host pupae of different ages. The life cycle of the parasitoid was around 25.5 days. The presence of the parasitoid in Brazil opens a new perspective on suppression of the sugarcane borer, considering the promising results already obtained in Asian countries. The insect is well adapted to laboratory conditions, can be produced in large scale and may became an additional option for the integrated pest management in those crops where D. saccharalis is a key pest such as the sugarcane, corn and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench).

scholarly journals Impact of Afternoon Thunderstorms on the Land–Sea Breeze in the Taipei Basin during Summer: An Experiment

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 1714-1738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsing-Chang Chen ◽  
Ming-Cheng Yen ◽  
Jenq-Dar Tsay ◽  
Chi-Chang Liao ◽  
Eugene S. Takle
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Sea Breeze ◽  
Thunderstorm Activity ◽  
Land Breeze ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Open Sea ◽  
Taipei Basin ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractEnvironmental conditions for the roughly three million people living in the Taipei basin of Taiwan are greatly affected by the land–sea breeze and afternoon thunderstorm activities. A new perspective on the land–sea breeze life cycle and how it is affected by afternoon thunderstorm activity in the Taipei basin during the dry season is provided. During the summer monsoon break–revival phase, about 75% of rainfall in the Taipei basin is produced by afternoon thunderstorms triggered by sea-breeze interactions with the mountains to the south of this basin. Because the basic characteristics of the land–sea breeze and the changes it undergoes through the influence of afternoon thunderstorms have not been comprehensively analyzed/documented, a mini–field experiment was conducted during the summers of 2004 and 2005 to explore these aspects of the land–sea breeze in this basin. Thunderstorm rainfall is found to change not only the basin’s land–sea-breeze life cycle, but also its ventilation mechanism. On the nonthunderstorm day, the sea breeze supplies the open-sea fresh air for about 8 h during the daytime, but the land breeze persists on the thunderstorm day from afternoon to the next morning, acting to sweep polluted urban air out of the basin.

Flowgraph representation of life cycle cost methodology-a new perspective for project managers

1990 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Riggs ◽  
D. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
New Perspective

scholarly journals Life Cycle Evolution in the Digenea: a New Perspective from Phylogeny

2003 ◽  
pp. 197-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
T CRIBB ◽  
R BRAY ◽  
P OLSON ◽  
D TIMOTHY ◽  
J LITTLEWOOD
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Life Cycle Evolution

Managing BPM life cycle transition risks in a small educational company to support change management

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Ane Hora de Souza ◽  
Victor Diogho Heuer de Carvalho ◽  
Roberio José Rogério dos Santos ◽  
Jonhatan Magno Norte da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Stability ◽  
New Perspective

PurposeThis article aims to present a methodology applied to the transition between the “as-is” and “to-be” stages of the Business Process Management (BPM) life cycle, supporting its implementation and maintenance for the organizational stability, using techniques from Operations Research and Information and Decision Theories, applied by a gamified system.Design/methodology/approachThe study used Design Science Research, considering the following methodological elements: (1) artifact model, after initial analysis of the organization; (2) problem relevance, incorporating components to the Markov transition matrix and the integer programming model for resource optimization; (3) model evaluation, establishing mechanisms to validate the methodology created; (4) research contributions, showing benefits found; (5) systematic approach, detailing methods used; (6) model's research process, revealing the means for execution; and (7) final presentation of results.FindingsAfter planning three scenarios for the company, containing zero, one or two implemented processes, the matrix of states in the Markov chain effectively identified the states of greater and lesser transition uncertainty. At the same time, the optimization model guided the organization toward a stable change in its operational and financial areas.Practical implicationsThe company's planning capacity has increased, as its managers now have a methodology to promote rational decisions about the development of plans. Before, managers believed that the methodology used was only for large companies. However, this view changed with the results, showing a structured view of the ability to absorb new customers, relocate established ones, increase the comfort level for employees and increase profitability for the company's business.Originality/valueThe study showed that the combination of techniques opens a new perspective to the incorporation of BPM in organizations, allows a smooth change between the current and future state, making it possible to predict the evolution of transition scenarios.

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