Carbon footprint and life cycle assessment of centralised and decentralised handling of wastewater during rain

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jes Clauson-Kaas ◽  
Birgitte Lilholt Sørensen ◽  
Ole G. Dalgaard ◽  
Anitha K. Sharma ◽  
Niels Bent Johansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Combined Sewer Overflows ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Retention Basins ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Eu

The most widely used approaches for handling of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are: (1) storage in smaller retention basins and local decentralised treatment; and (2) storage in larger retention basins and treatment at a central wastewater treatment plant. This paper compares the environmental impact including carbon footprint for these two approaches using the life cycle assessment (LCA) method, and provides a holistic view of how CSO is to be treated considering technical, economic and environmental issues. The analysis is based on the results of the EU-financed LotWater project and 9 years of operational data from wastewater treatment in Copenhagen. All technologies are analysed for handling of 1 m3 of CSO. However, costs are compared based on cost per reduced area. The study showed that decentralised treatment of CSO is the cheapest method and the power consumption for the decentralised treatment is five times less than that for central treatment of CSO. However, central treatment of CSO appeared to be most efficient in reducing discharge of nutrients and environmental toxics. The LCA showed that the largest environmental impacts from handling CSOs are eutrophication and aquatic ecotoxicity. This study concludes that focusing on global warming alone in the form of reduced energy consumption could result in negative impacts on recipient waters.

Life Cycle Assessment of Urban Wastewater Treatment

2014 ◽  
Vol 535 ◽  
pp. 346-349
Author(s):  
Mei Wang ◽  
Ming Yang ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Jian Fen Li
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Urban Wastewater ◽  
Urban Sewage ◽  
Urban Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Effect and benefits of a product or service could be analyzed and evaluated by life cycle assessment during the whole life cycle. Urban sewage treatment plants could improve and control urban water pollution escalating, but it also had certain harm to environment. Effect and benefits of urban wastewater treatment plant A and B were analyzed and evaluated, 13 factors were selected, and comprehensive benefits were researched quantificationally using the method of analytic hierarchy process. It found that urban wastewater treatment plant A who applied A/O process had better benefits than urban wastewater treatment plant B who applied BIOLAK process.

Case study on technical feasibility of galvanic wastewater treatment plant based on life cycle assessment and costing approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 104535
Author(s):  
Valentina Innocenzi ◽  
Federica Cantarini ◽  
Alessia Amato ◽  
Barbara Morico ◽  
Nicolò Maria Ippolito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Technical Feasibility

Energy Balance of WWTP Using LCA Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
Ivona Škultétyová ◽  
Mária Dubcová ◽  
Jaroslav Hrudka ◽  
Réka Csicsaiová ◽  
Ivana Marko
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Economic Optimization ◽  
Energy Audit ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Specific Electricity Consumption

In connection with the optimization of operation at the selected Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), it is important to perform an energy audit with an assessment of the use of electricity and the subsequent economic optimization of the equipment of the WWTP. We can perform the energy balance through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analysis in relation to EN ISO 140 40 [1].The aim of this study case is the analysis of the energy balance of WWTP. The appraisal was performed on three different interpretation variants of specific electricity consumption. The conclusion is a comparison of variants of quantification of specific electricity consumption.

Life cycle assessment as a decision support tool in wastewater treatment plant design with renewable energy utilization

2017 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muratcan Başkurt ◽  
Ilgın Kocababuç ◽  
Esra Binici ◽  
Ebru Dulekgurgen ◽  
Özlem Karahan Özgün ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Plant Design ◽  
Support Tool

scholarly journals Environmental performance of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant applying Life Cycle Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaís Andrade de Sampaio Lopes ◽  
Luciano Matos Queiroz ◽  
Asher Kiperstok
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Anaerobic Sludge ◽  
Treated Effluent ◽  
Useful Life

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was applied to estimate and analyze the environmental impacts from the construction and operation phases of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) located in the municipality of Lauro de Freitas, Bahia, Brazil. The WWTP process consists of the association of an Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor followed by four constructed wetlands (CWL) and a disinfection step. The functional unit was defined as one cubic meter of treated effluent during the useful life of this WWTP (20 years). The LCA was carried out using SimaPro® software and the Centre of Environmental Science (CML) assessment method. The environmental impacts during construction phase were mainly from the wooden forms for concrete and the use of reinforcing steel. During the operation phase, the chlorine used as effluent disinfectant caused the greatest impacts in the abiotic depletion and acidification categories. Macronutrient concentrations present in the treated effluent and the methane generated also caused significant environmental impacts during the WWTP’s useful life. The results obtained highlight the importance of the application of a methodology like LCA to assist in decision-making with regard to the implementation, construction and operation of a WWTP.

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