Comparing Sustainable Performance of Industrial System Alternatives by Integrating Environment, Costs, Clients and Exploitation Context

摘要: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology to assess environmental performances of products throughout their life cycles. Traditionally, LCA-based decision-making focuses on impacts, excluding customer expectations and economic considerations. Moreover, it usually uses generic data while industrial systems often depend local contexts. The aim this paper provide comprehensive framework identify the solution most adapted specific context, considering environmental, commercial aspects. First, competing are compared thanks LCA. A sensitivity analysis highlights influential parameters which operational scenarios built. Costs then incorporated into set exploitation scenarios.Second, matrix-based approach used. Products ranked according several client profiles. suitable for given context identified.This applied three burners forge furnaces. Results show that profiles contexts (namely expectations, location resources availability costs) affect choices.Copyright © 2014 by ASME