Software Integration of Life Cycle Assessment and Economic Analysis for Process Evaluation
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چکیده
Chemical product-process design challenges the developers to find designs that are not only technically and economically optimal but also environmentally acceptable. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool that helps to quantify the potential environmental impacts in order to select the optimal design from various feasible alternatives. This paper presents a new LCA software, LCSoft, which is exclusively designed for evaluation of chemical processes and options for integration with other process design tools, such as sustainable design (SustainPro), economic analysis (ECON) and process simulation. The framework of LCSoft contains four main parts (life cycle inventory database, estimation of environmental factors, LCA calculation, and options for integration). The application of LCSoft to the analysis of a bioethanol process is also highlighted.
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