21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC1 Paul van Exel, Director USPI USPI: Association for the Oil, Gas, Process & Power Industry Paul van Exel, Director USPI

21 Nov 08 WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC 1

Paul van Exel, Director USPIUSPI: Association for the Oil, Gas, Process & Power IndustryPaul van Exel, Director USPIUSPI: Association for the Oil, Gas, Process & Power Industry

INNOVAFUN WORKSHOP FG-CDC Seminar

BrusselsFriday 21 Nov 2008

Europe–INNOVA Standards Network

Depuis:

Design of Environmentally friendly Products through Using information

Standards


Agenda Depuis introduction

1. What is the DEPUIS project?

2. Partners

3. Specific objectives

4. Life cycle thinking

5. Interested Parties Forum (IPF)

6. The challenge of Depuis

7. Depuis house case

8. Multimedia handbook content

9. Award, references

10. Possible next project Depuis


The Depuis project

DEPUIS acronym = Design of Environmentally friendly Products Using Information Standards

Aims at improving the environmental friendly design of new products and services through the innovative use of new information standards

Fits the European Commission Integrated Product Policy, promotion of the use of life cycle thinking with SME’s i.e. take into account the full product or plant life cycle

A European project in which 10 partners participate from 8 countries.

Mixture of industry groups, consultants, software companies, training institutes, certification institute

Project runs two years: Sep 06 – Sep 08, extended Nov 08

Depuis standards network is one of 6 Europe Innova intiatives

DEPUIS, INNOVAFUN, BIOHEALTH, EUROMIND, STAND-INN, STEPPIN


DEPUIS web site: www.depuis.enea.it


European participation in the project


Specific objectives of the project

Help SME’s to use product data technology for communication, comparison and archiving technical data

Prepare a Multimedia Handbook on product data technology and organise and provide e-learning courses with a view to enable SME’s to adopt IPP environmental tools such as LCA and Ecodesign

Provide basic knowledge to software developers in order to produce software compatible with international standards

Provide feedback to standards developers

Possibly set-up a Certification scheme for product data technology knowledge and skills manager to support the environmental impact of products


Interested Parties Forum (IPF)

The Interested Parties Forum (IPF) is a collection of of bodies and parties with SME representation, invited to: Formulate the users requirements Validate the multimedia handbook and the e-

learning model

The IPF is also invited to assist in promoting the importance of PDT and LCT knowledge and skills among the SME’s


Life cycle thinking and product data technology


LCA methodology

The investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product (ISO 14040, 14048 standards)

Goal and scope Identify system boundaries

Life cycle inventory (LCI) modelling of the product system, data collection, as

well as description and verification of data

Life cycle impact assessment impact potentials are calculated based on the LCI

results

Interpretation of results


The challenge of DEPUIS

Demonstrate the necessity of using information standards to support LCA thin king i.e. the environmental impact assessment of of products and installations

The DEPUIS team works on the documentation of the House Case demonstrating this for optimising the construction of a house within CO2 emissions constraints


House construction with CO2 emissions constraint

Design of a house

• civil/structural systems• wall areas• room volumes• wall materials• foundations• framework• access roads

• mechanical systems• heating/cooling• electricity generation

Bill of materials

• civil/structural materials• masses and

volumes of timber, plasterboard, concrete, brick, etc..

• mechanical materials• masses and lengths

of piping, cable etc. • mechanical devices

• boilers, heat pumps, tanks, etc.

LocationLength of life

Total CO2 emissions from construction

for each year of use

defined using ISO 15926 reference data

from LCA Info Hub

LCA reference data

• emissions for materials• emissions for transport• emissions for energy


Exchange scheme Depuis house case

LCA Info Hub (website)

• XML file• uri missing

GUI• Excel • Import

•SPARQL•X-QUERY•XSLT

ISO 15926-4• Excel sheets• OWL file

POSCCaesar RDS• Extension construction• OWL file

Application• Excel• Calculations• Macros• Reports

X-Query

SPARQL

OWL

RDF

XML

EXCEL

SPARQL

XSLT

- Consistent use of standards - Use of common definitions- LCA InfoHub does not contain uri’s yet

LCA Info Hub

• Data base

OWL

RDF


Access to the multimedia handbook


e-learning courses


Minimum Data Sets Standards


Potential standards in life cycle stages

envi

ron

men

t

environment

Eco-design

Flow of products or material

Environmental impact

Flow of information

enviro

nm

ent

ISO 13584 andISO 15926, for parts

and materialscatalogues

EU LCA Infohub forEnvironmental Imp.

ISO 14048 for LCA dataISO 14020

for eco-label

ISO 10303 APs forproduct design


UBL, ebXML for e-business ISO 10303-AP 239

and ISO 15926for product support

AP 235, RDL,P-lib, OWL

to archive the information and use whenever

needed

Possible standards use

disposal

supply manufacture sell use recycle

envi

ron

men

t

environment

Eco-design

Flow of products or material

Environmental impact

Flow of information

enviro

nm

ent

ISO 13584 andISO 15926, for parts

and materialscatalogues


ISO 14048 for LCA dataISO 14020

for eco-label

ISO 10303 APs forproduct design


UBL, ebXML for e-business ISO 10303-AP 239

and ISO 15926for product support

AP 235, RDL,P-lib, OWL

to archive the information and use whenever

needed

Possible standards use

disposal

supply manufacture sell use recycle


LCA analysis timber roof

The roof frame illustrated in Figure 16 is made from laminated timber. The sequence of manufacturing operations for the production of a laminated timber beam, starting from sheets of kiln dried natural timber, is: eliminate defects, control moisture, machine finger joint, apply bonding adhesive, make joint, plane surface, apply surface adhesive, overlap layers, press assembly of layers, plane laminated beam to size, check quality.

The components for the manufacture of the whole roof structure are shown in Figure 17.

Figure 17 Components for a wooden roof

1 p Wooden Roof

2,59E3 kg Beam

2,12E3 kg Slats

2,63E3 kg Timbers

25 kg Screws

336 kg I nsulation

2,52E3 tkm Transport

230 kg Wood offcuts

Recycling

2,22 kg I ron scraps Recycling

35,5 kg Water

treatment


Shot of ELCD data base (EU LCA data)


Competency matrix subjects – target staff

Figure 20 A partial view of the table of competences required for each users’ class.


Possible certification of skills

Figure 23 The certification schema for professional skills


Self test information mgt for companies

Figure 21 A fragment of the interface of the test for the evaluation of data management inside an enterprise


The multimedia handbook target users

Engineering Mgr Environmental

mgr/consultant Product designer IT Manager/Consultant Software Engineer Project Engineer

Procurement Professional

Government Official Lecturer Student LCA Practioner SME Advisor/Support Innovation advisor /

network


Depuis multimedia handbook content

Foreword: standard NetworksChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The concept of “life cycle thinking”Chapter 3: The DEPUIS Project Multimedia HandbookChapter 4: Methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)Chapter 5: Overview of standards

5.1 Why we need product data technology5.2 Standards for communicating information5.3 Eco-Design and the use of international standards

5.3.1 Use of standards throughout the lifecycle of a product5.3.2 Standards for communicating data for product design and manufacture - ISO 103035.3.3 Standards for product classifications and dictionaries of terms - ISO 135845.3.4 Standards for data sharing during the life of a process plant - ISO 159265.3.5 Product data and the semantic web 5.3.6 Standards for the communication of business and commercial information –

UBL and ebXML 5.4 Standards for Life Cycle Assessment

Chapter 6: Example of Life Cycle AnalysisChapter 7: Lessons learned and further perspectivesGlossaryList of Partners in the DEPUIS ProjectUseful links


Achievements DEPUIS

LCA data management handbook What you have to do for LCA How standards (LCA, SC4, W3C) can help

E-Learning website Multi-media presentation

Series of courses across Europe Attended by SMEs interested in LCA

http://standards.eu-innova.org/Files/Publication/cdromDEPUIS.zip

http://depuis.enea.it/



Next steps - DEPUIS-CAN (idea)

Concerted Action Network

ontology for LCA

dereferencable URIs

genericLCA content

EU LCA Infohub

EU LCA Infohubon the

Semantic Web

SC4 standards OWL(Web Ontology Language

trade associations

ISO 14048(LCA data)

DEPUIS-CANmakes this happen

LCA data on the web


Next steps - DEPUIS-CAN (idea)

Concerted Action Network Simple Spreadsheet based tools

company A puts data about product A on the Web

part 1

part 2

company B puts data about part 1 on the Web

part x

part y

part z

Semantic Web

an environmental auditor follows the supply chain and puts specific

environmental data about product A on the Web

product Apart 1

product A


References

References

1. Integrated Product Policy http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ipp/

2. DEPUIS Project website http://www.depuis.enea.it

3. Methodology for LCA http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/lcainfohub/introduction.vm

4. ENEA report SIEC OT-SCA-00020, 2000 (in italian)

5. European Life Cycle Platform http://lca.jrc.ec.ec.europa.eu/lcainfohub/index.vm

6. Sima Pro software http://www.pre.nl

7. Title of parts of ISO 10303 http://www.tc184-sc4.org/titles/STEPtitles.htm

8. ISO Guide 77: Guide for the specification of products and classes, ISO, Geneva

9. PLIB Portal http://www.plib.ensma.fr

10. eCl@ss Product Information System http://www.eclass.de

11. CASCADE Project website http://www.pdt.enea.it

12. Universal Business Language http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.0/UBL-2.0.html

13. Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language http://www.ebxml.org/

14. OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org


Partners

List of Partners in the DEPUIS Project

ENEA, Centro Research Casaccia, http://www.casaccia.enea.it (coordinator)

CEPAS, Rome, Italy, http://www.cepas.it

Caesar Systems Ltd, London, U.K., http://www.caesarsystems.co.uk

Envirolink North West Ltd, Warrington, U.K. http://www.envirolinknorthwest.co.uk

Escola Superior de Comerç Internacional, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.esci.es

Ferroday Limited, Birkenhead, U.K. http:..www.ferroday.co.uk

LKSoftware GmbH, Fulda, Germany. http://www.lksoft.de

UAB LKSoft Baltic, Kaunas, Lithuania. http://www.lksoft.lt

POSC-CAESAR Association, Oslo, Norway http://www.posccaesar.com

USPI-NL, Amersfoort, Netherlands, http://www.uspi.nl


Contact point for participation

The DEPUIS consortium welcomes any staff interested in joining the Interested Parties Forum (IPF) to assist in evaluating the multimedia handbook and to promote its use amongst European SME’s

Contact points for this session:Paul van Exel, USPI ([email protected])

Leader of Depuis projectAnna Moreno, ENEA Italy ([email protected])

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21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC1 Paul van Exel, Director USPI USPI: Association for the Oil, Gas, Process & Power Industry Paul van Exel, Director USPI