| Download | - View accepted manuscript: An Integrated approach for risk-based life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision-making - selection, design and evaluation of cleaner and greener processes (PDF, 690 KiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/14637150610710927 |
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| Author | Search for: Sadiq, R.1; Search for: Khan, F. I. |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Subject | life cycle costs, green marketing, fuzzy control, risk management, decision-processes |
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| Abstract | Cleaner and greener technologies for process and product selection and design have gained popularity in recent years. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a systematic approach that enables selection of cleaner and greener products and processes. Recently, significant progress has been made for the use of LCA for product/process evaluation and selection, however, its use in process design and environmental decision-making has not been fully exploited. There are challenging activities which require trade-offs among conflicting attributes like cost, technical feasibility and environmental impacts. These attributes can be analysed at the early design stage by considering the full life cycle of a process (and/or a product). A cleaner and greener process referred economical, technically feasible and environmental friendly alternative. This paper proposes an integrated methodology for design by combining LCA with multi-criteria decision-making. This methodology is simple and applicable at the early design stage and guide decision-making under uncertainty. Application of the methodology is demonstrated through a case study of urea production. |
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| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 48360
NRC-IRC-17743 |
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| NPARC number | 20377528 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | 31d3a063-f85c-4d27-91e1-ddd40f967c6b |
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| Record created | 2012-07-24 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-22 |
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