Quality assessment of life cycle inventory data for composites

Badr Moutik; John Summerscales; Jasper Graham-Jones; Richard Pemberton

Quality assessment of life cycle inventory data for composites

Badr Moutik, John Summerscales, Jasper Graham-Jones, Richard Pemberton

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

University of Plymouth

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Environmental sustainability over the life cycle of a product is rising as a key driver in the selection of materials and manufacturing processes. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly used as a standardised, science-based decision-making support tool to quantify and identify potential environmental impacts through all phases of the product life.

A major step involved in completing a Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), and so an LCA study, is the collection, analysis, and quality check of data on the investigated processes, data to quantify the inputs and output (e.g., elementary flow of raw materials, energy, waste, and co-products) of the product system that crosses the LCA study system boundary.

The goal of this study is to provide LCA practitioners in the composites industry with an approach to assess the overall quality of LCI results by integrating the qualitative and quantitative information of input data, uncertainty, and sensitivity analysis of results.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2 Aug 2023
Event	23rd International Conference on Composite Materials - Duration: 2 Aug 2023 → …

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Conference	23rd International Conference on Composite Materials
Period	2/08/23 → …

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Quality assessment of life cycle inventory data for composites

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