Potential for Integrating Diffusion of Innovation Principles into Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 2771-2781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin E. Sharp ◽  
Shelie A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Emerging Technologies

scholarly journals Upscaling methods used in ex ante life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: a review

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1680-1692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Tsoy ◽  
Bernhard Steubing ◽  
Coen van der Giesen ◽  
Jeroen Guinée
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Ex Ante

Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies on value recovery from hard disk drives

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 104781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyue Jin ◽  
Kali Frost ◽  
Ines Sousa ◽  
Hamid Ghaderi ◽  
Alex Bevan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Hard Disk Drives ◽  
Hard Disk ◽  
Disk Drives ◽  
Value Recovery

Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: The case of milk ultra-high pressure homogenisation

2017 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 2209-2217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Valsasina ◽  
Massimo Pizzol ◽  
Sergiy Smetana ◽  
Erika Georget ◽  
Alexander Mathys ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Ultra High Pressure

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment and Water Footprint of Hydrogen Production Methods: From Conventional to Emerging Technologies

Environments ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Mehmeti ◽  
Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis ◽  
George Arampatzis ◽  
Stephen McPhail ◽  
Sergio Ulgiati
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Hydrogen Production ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Water Footprint ◽  
Production Methods

scholarly journals How to Conduct Prospective Life Cycle Assessment for Emerging Technologies? A Systematic Review and Methodological Guidance

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Thonemann ◽  
Anna Schulte ◽  
Daniel Maga
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Stage Of Development

Emerging technologies are expected to contribute to environmental sustainable development. However, throughout the development of novel technologies, it is unknown whether emerging technologies can lead to reduced environmental impacts compared to a potentially displaced mature technology. Additionally, process steps suspected to be environmental hotspots can be improved by process engineers early in the development of the emerging technology. In order to determine the environmental impacts of emerging technologies at an early stage of development, prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) should be performed. However, consistency in prospective LCA methodology is lacking. Therefore, this article develops a framework for a prospective LCA in order to overcome the methodological inconsistencies regarding prospective LCAs. The methodological framework was developed using literature on prospective LCAs of emerging technologies, and therefore, a literature review on prospective LCAs was conducted. We found 44 case studies, four review papers, and 17 papers on methodological guidance. Three main challenges for conducting prospective LCAs are identified: Comparability, data, and uncertainty challenges. The issues in defining the aim, functionality, and system boundaries of the prospective LCAs, as well as problems with specifying LCIA methodologies, comprise the comparability challenge. Data availability, quality, and scaling are issues within the data challenge. Finally, uncertainty exists as an overarching challenge when applying a prospective LCA. These three challenges are especially crucial for the prospective assessment of emerging technologies. However, this review also shows that within the methodological papers and case studies, several approaches exist to tackle these challenges. These approaches were systematically summarized within a framework to give guidance on how to overcome the issues when conducting prospective LCAs of emerging technologies. Accordingly, this framework is useful for LCA practitioners who are analyzing early-stage technologies. Nevertheless, further research is needed to develop appropriate scale-up schemes and to include uncertainty analyses for a more in-depth interpretation of results.

Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: A review

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheikh Moniruzzaman Moni ◽  
Roksana Mahmud ◽  
Karen High ◽  
Michael Carbajales‐Dale
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Emerging Technologies
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