PřF:ENV010 Life Cycle Assessment - Course Information
ENV010 LCA - Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Services
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Mgr. Michal Bittner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Ivan Holoubek, CSc.
RECETOX – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Mgr. Michal Bittner, Ph.D.
Supplier department: RECETOX – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 13:00–14:50 D29/252-RCX1
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- defend meaning of the life cycle assessment as a method that is useful if we strive to minimise the impact of industrial production on the environment
- explain how is possible to assess the impacts on the environment, and the utility of obtained results
- suggest how to optimise the process of the manufacturing or service in order to minimise their impact on the environment in their whole life cycle
- practically perform simple LCA with SimaPro software
- interpret obtained results with their critical assessment - Syllabus
- Lectures:
- 1) Principles of life cycle assessment of products and services, and defending of the meaning of LCA
- 2) Definition of aims nad the scope of the study, functional unit, inventarisation
- 3) Impacts assessment
- 4) Impact categories (resources depletion, climatic changes, human health, ecosystem quality...)
- 5) Interpretation of the life cycle and critical revision of the LCA study
- 6) Sources of information, use of LCA, software tools
- Excersises - work with SimaPro software
- 7) Logic of the SimaPro
- 8) Initiation of LCA study, aims and scope definition
- 9) Use of relevant information from included databases or directly from the manufacturer
- 10) Impact assessment and their interpretaion, various types of the visualisation and their importance, weighting
- 11) LCA outputs
- Literature
- recommended literature
- KOČÍ, Vladimír. Posuzování životního cyklu. Vyd. 1. Chrudim: Vodní zdroje Ekomonitor, 2009, 263 s. ISBN 9788086832425. info
- BAUMANN, Henrikke and Anne-Marie TILLMAN. The hitch hiker's guide to LCA : an orientation in life cycle assessment methodology and application. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2004, 543 s. ISBN 9144023642. info
- Teaching methods
- Education is performed as lectures with Powerpoint prezentation. Students are frequently asked to think about actual topic. They are encouraged to ask questions and be in interaction with the lecturer. Part of the subject is also work with programme SimaPro.
- Assessment methods
- Final written test with possibility of additional oral revision.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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