Life Cycle Assessment & Carbon footprint With ‘Simapro’ By Sunil Kumar Head, SIPL New Delhi, India

Life Cycle Assessment&

Carbon footprint

With ‘Simapro’BySunil KumarHead, SIPLNew Delhi, India

SIPL

www.simaproindia.com

The purpose of PRé is to make a positive change in the world, by providing:– the tools

• The most widely used LCA software SimaPro• With the best databases and impact assessment methods

– the knowledge• Innovative contributions to LCA methodologies, like eco-indicator and ReCiPe• High level consultancy team• Excellent LCA courses

– the network • Our 21 International partners• Access to a huge network of experts that like working with us, because we are open, willing to share and

trustworthy

…..to help decision-making for sustainable policies, products and services.

PRé Consultants and its partners

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Simapro Global Network

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LCA Value Chain & Simapro Network• Everywhere, people want

to transform data into indicators, to solve management issues.

• We provide the processor (SimaPro), the data and some of the methods

• Consultancy has the understanding of the methodological developments; the scouts

• We help organizing the LCA community

The LCA value chain

Management support

Indicator results

Modelling and processing

Data bases Foreground data

Provide detailed info on raw materials

Greenhouse gas and EPD reporting

Day to day decision support

We help the community to organize the data (open source data

We develop simple

ecodesign tools (software and

paper)We provide open

source connectors to

develop management

tools

We are recognized experts in

impact assessment

We provide the most

widely used software

Our consultants

will know everything about this

We train people how to do LCA

We review, and we do

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GLO

US LCI data (245 processes) Included, in two ways:1 Separate2 Connected to ecoinvent

US Input outputDatabase (500 sectors)

Indian LCA data on energyTransport and steel, Oil & Gas,Renewable energy, Various plastics ...

Chinese database (105 processes) available

Australian databaseavailable

Japanese Input outputDatabase (500 sectors)Licensed from Toshiba

Danish IO and Danish food database

Global coverage

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What is LCA ?

Materials processing

maintenance

Production use recycling

landfill

Step 1: Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)Step 2: Life Cycle Inventory Analyses (LCIA)

emissions to air

emissions to water and soil

materials

energy

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The next step: Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) = creating a “single indicator”

2 types of single indicator systems

-based on CO2 equiv. only the Carbon Footprint

-based on damage the Ecoindicator99

What is LCA? cont.

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What is LCA? cont.

The Carbon Footprint: the simplistic approach

Throw away 99% of the list: count CO2 (equiv.) only

Advantage: it is simple

Disadvantage: toxic substances (e.g. fine dust, heavy metals, etc.)are not taken into account

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What is LCA? cont.

LCI resultLCI result

Raw materialsLand use

CO2VOS

P SO2NOxCFC

CdPAHDDT

Raw materialsLand use

CO2VOS

P SO2NOxCFC

CdPAHDDT

Eco-systems(PDF)

Eco-systems(PDF)

Human health (DALY)

Human health (DALY)

Resources(Surplus E)

Resources(Surplus E)

Ozone layerOzone layer

ClimateClimate

CarcinogensCarcinogens

Respiratory (2)Respiratory (2)

Eco-toxEco-tox

acid. nutri.acid. nutri.

land useland use

fossil fuelsfossil fuels

MineralsMinerals

Single scoreSingle score

Ecoindicator99, a damage based system

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The Carbon footprint is a sub-set of the data covered by a more complete Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

One of the key impact categories considered in an LCA is Climate change, generally using the already named IPCC characterization factors.

Hence, a Carbon footprint is a Life Cycle Assessment with the analysis limited to emissions that have an

effect on Climate change.

Carbon footprint with LCA

SIPL Design for Environment (DfE)

• The integration of environmental considerations into product and process design – Fundamental to DfE is the use of tools and practices that

encourage environmental responsibility and simultaneously reduce costs, promote competitiveness and enhance innovation

– DfE practices are meant to develop more environmentally compatible products and processes while maintaining (and in some cases even exceeding) price, performance and quality standards


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• A broad range of activities ranging from business to business transfer of product specific environmental information to environmental labelling in retail marketing

• The overall goal of eco-labelling is to encourage the demand for, and supply of, products and services that are environmentally preferable through the provision of verifiable, accurate and non-deceptive information on environmental aspects of products and services

Eco - labelling


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Users of Simapro in INDIA

• IOCL, Faridabad• GE, Bangalore• CII, Hyderabad

• NCCBM, Faridabad• TERI, New Delhi• CIBA, Chennai• CRRI, New Delhi• TCS, Mumbai• E&Y, Mumbai

• EATON CORP. Pune• John Deere, Pune

• India Glycols, Kashipur• NITIE, Mumbai

• IIT- Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, BITS Pilani and ………….

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Thank You very much for your attention.

More information: www.simaproindia.com or mail: [email protected]

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Life Cycle Assessment & Carbon footprint With ‘Simapro’ By Sunil Kumar Head, SIPL New Delhi, India