Course description
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic tool that evaluates environmental impacts over the life cycle of a product or service. As the Sustainability Hub assists chemical engineers in supporting the UN Sustainability Development Goals, this training course will be a key knowledge strand that has the potential to influence them all. IChemE Members can obtain free access to this course by inputting a discount code. See below for more details.
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
- the needs for, and purpose of, an LCA on a product and/or process
- how an LCA is performed on a simple product and/or process
- interpreting the outcome of an LCA
- the challenges in implementing LCA within your organisation
- how LCA can support ‘sustainability thinking’
Training Course Content
Introduction to LCA- sustainable development
- system thinking and LCA
- LCA applications
Conducting an LCA- goal and scope
- inventory analysis
- impact assessment
- interpretation
- LCA case study – conducting an LCA
LCA examples – interpreting an LCA- goal of LCA interpretation
- presenting LCA results
- uncertainty in LCA
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Institution of Chemical Engineers
IChemE is the qualifying body and learned society for chemical, biochemical and process engineers. We facilitate the development of chemical engineering professionals and provide connections to a powerful network of around 30,000 members in more than 100 countries.We are a...
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