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80410 Life-Cycle Assessments of Products and Systems.
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Danish title: Livscyklusvurdering af produkter og systemer
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| Type: Å, Language: EEE |
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Credit points:
10 point |
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| Offered by:
Department of Manufacturing Engineering
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| Prerequisite: Mindst to af følgende kurser)C6335,C8408,85271,85252,C8853/63001 |
| Recommended semester:
7th - 9th semester |
| Limitation: Max. 30 |
| Scope and form: 2 weekly lectures plus monday afternoon. Besides this, company visits may be used. |
| Examination:
Evaluation of individual reports and of the group reports from casework
(13 point scale
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| Contact person: |
Morten Als Pedersen, IPT, Building 403, Tel. +45 4525 4661 |
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| Aim: The students should: 1) acquire a basic understanding of the concept of life cycles, 2) acquire both theoretical and practical understanding of parameters within external environment, work environment, resource consumption and social aspects as key elements in an analysis of the life cycle of products or systems, 3) become familiar with the application of LCA as an environment oriented tool/method in companies or public administration, 4) be able to plan, carry out and evaluate a life cycle assessment. |
| Contents: Introduction to the concept of life cycles. Applications of LCA for evaluation- and development purposes in private and public companies and public administration. Purpose of using LCA in industrial production, incl. building industry, energy production etc.. Description of LCA tools/methods and operationalization of individual parameters with relations to external environment, work environment, consumption of resources (energy, minerals etc.), and social aspects. Presentation of different applications of LCA in various segments of industry. This includes manufacturing of buildings, food, energy, industrial products, chemicals and materials. Presentation of various support tools for LCA. Casework in groups. The topics are specific products from areas that lies within the focus areas of the engineering education given at DTU. |
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