all categories (144 entries)
Umweltproduktdeklaration (EPD) für Passivhausfenster und -türen
| Category: |
Construction, Environmental Product Declaration
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| Client: |
Variotec GmbH & Co. KG |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2014 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Support of Variotec GmbH & Co. KG with the creation of an environmental product declaration (EPD) based on prodct category rules (PCR) of the Institute Bauen und Umwelt (IBU). Therefore a LCA is modeled as basis for the EPD-document further product specific data is collected. |
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Aufbereitung von Elektroschrott
Benefication of electronic scrap
| Category: |
Recycling and Landfill
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| Client: |
Gips-Schüle-Stiftung |
| Duration: |
2014 - 2015 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Goal of the project is the recovery of metalic shares, which encase rare earth and other precoius metals, out of electronic scrap via electrodynamic fragmentation. This separation process is able to disjoint composite materials using ultrashort eletric impluses. |
Data sets for the ELCD database
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Conversion of data sets from the PlasticsEurope data set format to the ILCD format. |
| Links: |
- http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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Application of the DGNB certification scheme to public buildings
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, Germany |
| Duration: |
2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Application of the criteria of the German Certificate for Sustainable Construction to two federal buildings and evaluation of the criteria. |
Critical Review of chemicals
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites, Chemistry and biotechnology
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Crtitical review of an LCA study on different chemicals. |
Review of data sets for the ELCD database
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2010 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Review of data sets for the ELCD database. |
| Links: |
- http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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Ökobilanz des Einkaufcenter "Limbecker Platz" (Essen, Deutschland)
LCA of the shopping centre "Limbecker Platz" (Essen, Germany)
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainable Buildings Certification, Sustainability Assessment
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| Client: |
Ingenieurbüro Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kunibert Lennerts GmbH (ikl) |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment of the shopping centre "Limbecker Platz" (Essen, Germany) supporting the audit for obtaining a building certification according to the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) |
| Links: |
- http://www.limbecker-platz.de
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Ökobilanz und Lebenszykluskostenrechnung (Vorzertifikat) eines STRABAG-Bestandsgebäudes mit Modernisierungsmaßnahme für eine DGNB-Pilotzertifizierung nach MBV10
LCA and LCC of an existing building with modernisation activities for the purpose of a DGNB certiciation according to MBV10
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainable Buildings Certification, Sustainability Assessment
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| Client: |
STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH |
| Duration: |
2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing (pre-certificate) of an existing building with modernisation activities according to occupancy profile MBV10 for the purpose of DGNB certification within pilot test phase |
Vorzertifikat Ökobilanz & Lebenszykluskostenrechnung für Wohngebäude - Projekt F40" nach DGNB Systemvariante NWO10 (Pilotphase)
DGNB pre-certificate for LCA and LCC of a residential building complex - project "F40" - according to NWO10 (pilot phase)
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainable Buildings Certification, Sustainability Assessment
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| Client: |
Patrizia Immobilien AG,F40 GmbH |
| Duration: |
2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for a pre-certification according to the DGNB building assessemtn scheme of a residential building complex within the pilot testing of the residential building criteria |
Ökobilanz des Loftcube
LCA of the Loftcube
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainable Buildings Certification
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| Client: |
Loftcube GmbH |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment of the production, use phase and end-of-life of the mobile prefab lightweight building Loftcube |
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Critical Review of the study Life Cycle Potential Analysis of Materials - SMC, thermoplastic, aluminium, steel -
Kritische Prüfung der Studie "Ökobilanzpotenziale der Werkstoffe SMC, Thermoplaste, Aluminium, Stahl"
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites, Automotive, Databases and Data Format
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| Client: |
European Alliance for SMC/BMC |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2012 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The external critical review of the study Life Cycle Potential Analysis of Materials - SMC, thermoplastic, aluminium, steel - prepared by LCS Life Cycle Simulation GmbH, Backnang, for the European Alliance for SMC/BMC comprises the validation of conformity / compliance of the study with ISO standards ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006 in terms of formal procedures and methods and the evaluation of the content of the study. |
| Links: |
- http://www.smc-alliance.com
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Wissenschaftliche Begleitung zur DGNB-Zertifizierung und Audit - SWU Neubau K3
Scientific Assistance in Building Certification - New Construction SWU K3
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Buildings Certification
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| Client: |
Stadtwerke Ulm / Neu-Ulm GmbH |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2013 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Scientific support for the design and construction of an excellent sustainable building, following the set of rules of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), including the Audit for certification. |
Screeningökobilanz von Holzfenstern und PVC-Fenstern
| Category: |
Construction, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering
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| Client: |
GEWOFAG Wohnen GmbH |
| Duration: |
2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Identification of relevant parameters that influence the LCA of wooden windows and PVC-windows. |
Erarbeitung von Nachhaltigkeitskriterien für ein "Sustainable Stores Toolkit" der PUMA RETAIL AG.
Development of sustainability criteria for a "Sustainable Stores Toolkit" for the PUMA RETAIL AG.
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Buildings Certification
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| Client: |
PUMA RETAIL AG |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of sustainability criteria for PUMA Retail stores and identification of operational tools tro adress these criteria. |
PUMA Sustainable Stores Toolkit
Sustainability Assessment
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Buildings Certification
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| Client: |
PUMA RETAIL AG |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Development of a tool for the PUMA Retail AG to support planners and architects to create more sustainable PUMA stores. |
Unterstützung der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit im Rahmen des SBA Research Agreement on Common Metrics Working Group 4
Support of research activities within the "SBA Research Agreement on Common Mterics" - Working Group 4
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Buildings Certification
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| Client: |
German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Between 2009 and 2010, the Working Group 4 of the Sustainable Building Alliance (SBA) has developed a draft for indicators and metrics ("Common Metrics") for the sustainability evaluation of buildings. The draft, its indicators and metrics, should be assessed by SBA members in the context of real projects and existing building certification schemes. The goal of the project will be practical evaluation and application of the Common Metrics as well as comparison of results and metrics. Thereby, the building certification scheme according to DGN (as member of the SBA) represents a potential certification scheme for comparison purpose. |
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Support on the research activities within the "SBA Research Agreement on Common Metrics" - Working Group 4
Unterstützung der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit im Rahmen des SBA Research Agreement on Common Metrics Working Group 4
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Buildings Certification
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| Client: |
German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2012 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Comparison of requirements and calculation rules on LCA and Non-LCA indicators of the DGNB assessemtn scheme with regard to the SBA Common Metrics Framework; detailed analysis of a DGNB certified project with regard to LCA indicators where results are calculated following SBA rules |
Screeningökobilanz von oberflächenbehandelten Steinfliesen
| Category: |
Construction, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering
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| Client: |
MAGNA Naturstein GmbH |
| Duration: |
2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Screening-LCA to analyse the use phase of flagstones with different surface treatments. |
Begleitung der Arbeitsgruppe Nachhaltige Unterrichtsgebäude des Runden Tisches Nachhaltiges Bauen beim BMVBS
Supporting the working group 'Sustainable Educational Buildings' of the round table sustainable construction at the German federal ministry for construction
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment, Sustainable Buildings Certification
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| Client: |
BMVBS (German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs) |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Supporting the working group on Sustainable Educational Buildings in their work to develop a rating system for public educational buildings (schools, university buildings, training facilities); to provide technical support with individual studies on rating items and to compile indicator definitions |
| Links: |
- http://www.nachhaltigesbauen.de/bewertungssystem-nachhaltiges-bauen-fuer-bundesgebaeude-bnb/bnb-unterrichtsgebaeude.html
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Fraunhofer Strategie Nachhaltigkeit
Fraunhofer Sustainability Strategy
| Category: |
Sustainability Assessment |
| Client: |
Fraunhofer Society |
| Duration: |
2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of a sustainability strategy for the Fraunhofer Society |
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Workshop Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Evaluation in Industry's Management
Workshop Ökobilanz und Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung im industriellen Management
| Category: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Sustainability Assessment |
| Client: |
German Aerospace Center (DLR),International Bureau of the BMBF |
| Duration: |
2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
In cooperation with the industrial association São Paulo (Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo FIESP), the department Life Cycle Engineering (GaBi) conducted a workshop on 29th of September 2010 on the topic of "Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Evaluation in Industry's management. The workshop was supported by the German BMBF within "The Brasilian Year 2010". LCA experts from São Paulo, Brasília und Curritiba participated and referred to their experiences and projects from a sustainable perspective. The department GaBi gave insight to their projects and the possibility of using LCA as method and instrument for sustainability assessment. Goal of the workshop was to deepen the exchange of experiences and ideas within the brazilian industry and to strengthen the discussion on sustainability within industry practice. |
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- http://www.fiesp.com.br/eventos/evento.aspx?evt=713http://www.deutsch-brasilianisches-jahr.de/http://www.dbwti.de/de/209.php?id=121&lang=de-de&#viewanc
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Molecular Sorting
Molecular Sorting
| Category: |
Recycling and Landfill, Design for Environment, Material and Substance Flow Analysis
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| Client: |
Fraunhofer Society |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2014 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Evaluation of environmental performance of future recycling technologies |
| Links: |
- http://www.fraunhofer.de/de/fraunhofer-forschungsthemen/Produktion/Energie-und-rohstoffsparende-Produktion/molecular-sorting.html
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Biodiversität in Ökobilanzen
Biodiversity in LCA
| Category: |
Land Use and Biodiversity, Method
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| Client: |
Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Germany |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2015 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Development of a method for the integration of biodiversity as a safeguard subject into LCA |
Erstellung einer Marktstudie zum Thema Leichtbau in Mobilität und Fertigung - Ökologische Aspekte
Preparation of the market study "Light-weight construction for automotive issues - Environmental aspects"
| Category: |
Automotive, Plastics and Composites, Metals
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| Client: |
e-mobil BW GmbH |
| Duration: |
2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The e-mobil BW GmbH is a central contact-, support- and service point for all issues of electric mobility and supports the inevitable structural change of the automotive branch. The market study assesses the environmental potentials of light-weight construction regarding a boot lid and is structured into four work packages:- Environmental aspects of the production of light-weight products- Issues of safety at work and health safety during the production- Environmental impacts and danger potential of the use of light-weight products- Recyclability and disposal of light-weight products |
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Konzept und Machbarkeitsstudie "Datenbank Ökobilanz-Daten"
Conception and feasibility study: "Database for Life Cycle Assessment data"
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
UBA (German Federal Environment Agency) |
| Duration: |
1993 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Concept study. The study investigates how product related LCI Data from different LCA studies could be harmonised and integrated into a public available database system that can be used for public LCA research projects. Questions on data and content privacy as well as technical and organisational issues are evaluated. |
Perspektiven für eine umwelt- und sozialverträgliche Werkstoffentwicklung in der Automobilindustrie unter Einbeziehung der Zuliefer- und Verwertungsbetriebe
Perspectives for an Environmentally and Socially Sound Material Development in the Automotive Industry under consideration of Suppliers and Recyclers.
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) |
| Duration: |
1995 - 1996 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Comparison of Polyvinylchloride(PVC)-Plastisol and Styrolmethacrylic acid (SMA)-Plastisol as well as combined concepts for uncoatings of passenger cars |
Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung von Produktion und Design im Fertighausbau
Life Cycle Engineering of production and design in prefabricated house construction
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
Ministry of economics Baden-Württemberg |
| Duration: |
1996 - 1997 (completed) |
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Complete Inventory of the Vehicles, Smart City Coupe, Cabrio and CDI
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
1999 - 2000 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Environmental Assessment of entire vehicles over their whole life cycles. Particular emphasis on Body-in-White concept and hang-on parts. |
Erarbeitung der Anforderungen einer Vergaberichtlinie für ein nationales Umweltzeichen Fenster
Formulation of Requirements for a Guideline for a National Ecolabel for Windows
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
UBA (German Federal Environment Agency) |
| Duration: |
1999 - 2000 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Project objectives:Development of a catalogue of requirements for window systems (frames and glass) as basis for environmental certificates; Consideration of the whole life cycle of window systems including new developments. Integration of the RAL-UZ 52 requirements (high heat insulating laminated insulation glass) |
Thermische Verwertung von Holzprodukten
Thermal use of Wooden Products
| Category: |
Recycling and Landfill
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| Client: |
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Holzforschung und Holzabsatzfonds (German Society for Wood Research) |
| Duration: |
2001 - 2002 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Various energy recovery facilities for wooden products were examined and modelled. Eco-profiles were developed, depending on the technical standard of the machinery and the products relative content of actual wood. These showed which of the internal analyses and optimum realization concepts for wood products would fulfil, or even exceed, legal requirements. |
| Links: |
- http://www.oekobilanzen-holz.de/ThermV.pdf
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Trade-Off Analyse einer Reinigungsmassnahme
von Raffinerieabgasen
Trade-Off Analysis of a Refinery's Flue Gas Cleaning System
| Category: |
Energy
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2002 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Comparison and evaluation of the ecological expenditures and benefits of particle filters (2 variants: E-filter, scrubber). Assessment of the real ecological efficiency of a tightened emission guideline (in accordance to the "Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control") for Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) facilities (50ppm to 30ppm). Consideration of production, use and EoL of the flue gas cleaning systems. |
Eco-Efficiency of PVC Recovery Options
| Category: |
Recycling and Landfill
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2002 - 2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Comparison of four PVC recovery options: mechanical solvolysis, pyrolysis, hydrolysis/ pyrolysis and incineration with HCl recovery |
| Links: |
- http://www.vinyl2010.org/News-And-Comment/PVCRecoveryOptions2.htmhttp://www.vinyl2010.org/News-And-Comment/PE_Recovery_Options_exec_sum_final.pdf
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Formteile zur Wärmedämmung aus Partikelschaumstoffen auf Basis nachwachsender Rohstoffe
Thermal insulation using particle foam based on renewable materials
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
Ls BaWü (Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg) |
| Duration: |
2005 - 2007 (completed) |
| Objective: |
LCA comparison of new developed insulation materials based on thermoplastic biopolymers with conventional insulation materials. Modelling of the production and use phases of two current heat insulation systems for buildings (reference scenarios).Modelling of the newly developed heat insulation systems using thermoplastic biopolymers and comparison with the current systems (research scenarios). |
LCA of PVC and of principal competing Materials
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Compilation of an overview of publicly available information on LCA of PVC and competing materials in order to assess existing information and to identify information gaps collected these studies. |
| Links: |
- http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/chemicals/sustdev/pvc-final_report_lca.pdf
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Emissionsfaktoren für Groß- und Mittelgroße Feuerungsanlagen, direkt und Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung
Emission Factors for Large and Medium Scale Power, Heat and Combined Heat & Power (CHP) plants
| Category: |
Energy
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| Client: |
VDA (German Automotive Association) |
| Duration: |
2004 - 2005 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of emission factors for the provision of power and heat in various countries world wide.Emission factors are used for the calculation of environmental emissions connected with the operations of German automotive OEMs which are published in their yearly environmental reports. |
LCI Energy Data Sets provided in the GaBi professional and additional Databases
Sachbilanzinventare im Bereich Energie für die GaBi professional und Zusatzdatenbanken
| Category: |
Energy
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| Client: |
Several costumers |
| Duration: |
1990 (still active) |
| Objective: |
feedstock to manufacture products for two significant growing markets: high value graphitic carbon and renewable hydrogen |
Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung von Baumaterialien und Gebäuden
Life Cycle Engineering of Construction Materials and Buildings
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
Several costumers from industry and construction material associations |
| Duration: |
1994 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Acquisition of impacts on the environment due to the manufacturing of building materials; investigation of complex systems and products, LCA of exemplary buildings and presentation of optimisation potentials. |
Modelling of Specific Energy Supply LCI data sets
| Category: |
Energy
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| Client: |
Various industry (e.g. Daimler, Rio Tinto Alcan, Freudenberg, Volkswagen, Miro Refinery) |
| Duration: |
1995 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Developing of individual LCI data sets on the supply of electricity, heat and cooling to production facilities on the basis of either company owned power and Combines Heat and Power (CHP) plants or specific power and CHP plants of utilities (e.g. RWE, EnBW). |
ADSM - Active Disassembly Using Smart Materials
| Category: |
Electronics
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2000 - 2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Shape memory materials are used for active and passive disassembly of components and sub-assemblies of and in electronic products to get pro-active influence of EoL activities and resulting material compositions and fractions. Project goals are the easier and thus faster disassembly of electronic products, the better composed fractions resulting from the recyclers and cost and environmental improvement of WEEE |
AFFRC - NARO I Assessment of land use implications of biofeedstock cultivation in Japan development of data requirements and calculation of soil quality indicator values
| Category: |
Land Use and Biodiversity, Renewable Ressources and Food, Databases and Data Format
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| Client: |
National Agriculture and Food Research Council (AFFRC) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Provide assessment models and resulting indicator values that express the implications of land use and possibly of land use change on the directly affected land. These indicators hereby address the quality of the soil. |
BASE - Bio-Based Functional Materials from Engineered Self-Assembling Peptides
| Category: |
Chemistry and Biotechnology
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2005 - 2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
BASE targets are to develop innovative nano-coating for plastics, metals and ceramic objects, exploiting the self-assembly capabilities of short and amino-acid sequences (=peptides) in industrially relevant applications. LBP-GaBi performs the sustainability study to assess the environmental, economic and societal impact of the novel applications of these self-assembling materials. |
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BIMiD - BIM Referenz-Objekt in Deutschland Ein Praxis-Modellprojekt für die deutsche Bau- und Immobilienindustrie
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
BMWi |
| Duration: |
2013 - 2016 (still active) |
| Objective: |
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BiNa - Forschungsplattform BiNa - Neue Wege, Strategien, geschäfts- und Kommunikationsmodelle für Biokunsstoffe als Baustein einer Nachhaltigen Wirtschaft
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
Federal Ministry for education and research |
| Duration: |
2015 - 2017 (still active) |
| Objective: |
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BIOFOAM - Bio-source based recyclable poly(ester-co-amide)s and poly(ester-co-urethane)s for industrial foam applications
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2000 - 2004 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of sustainable foam products based upon renewable resources. This includes identification of bio sources, development of monomer production technologies from these bio sources, polymerisation, foaming technology, product development, recyclability and biodegradability. 1. Life Cycle Management - continuous decision support regarding economic, ecological, and social soundness includes new methodology: Life Cycle Working Time (LCWT) as main direct social aspect of production systems. LCWT is consistent integrated into LCA/LCE approach and includes: Qualification of Work (Working time / functional unit, educational and training level of employees) Health and Safety of Work (Lethal and non-lethal accidents, etc.) Humanity of Work (Child work, equity (sex, race, religion etc.), trade-unions etc.) 2. Large volume supply of bio source 3. Recyclability and Recycling options for foam products to be developed |
| Links: |
- http://www.biofoam.de/eng/
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BiogasMAX - Market Expansion of Biogas as a Vehicle Fuel
| Category: |
Energy, Transportation
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2010 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Reduction of oil dependency, reduction of emissions from transport through more efficient production, distribution and use of biogas in the transport sector. Large-scale demonstration of industrial processes, benchmarking of new and near-to-market technologies, expansion of biogas fleets. Enhance the market acceptance of biogas as an alternative motor fuel. |
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BioMinE - Biotechnology for Metal bearing materials in Europe
| Category: |
Metals, Chemistry and Biotechnology, Design for Environment
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2004 - 2008 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The objective of BioMinE is to develop sustainable solutions covering the whole life cycle of products and equipment of innovative biotechnology based processes for recovery/removal of metals from primary materials such as ores and concentrates, secondary materials such as mining wastes, metallurgical slags, metal bearing scrap and combustion/power plant ashes. |
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Bioökonomie Harmonisierung - Harmonisierung von Ökobilanzen (LCA) für biobasierte Produkte
| Category: |
Renewable Ressources and Food, Energy, Land Use and Biodiversity
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| Client: |
Wissenschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg |
| Duration: |
2014 - 2017 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Identification of relevant parameters that influence LCAs of renewable resources, comparison of instructions given in different standards and harmonization. |
| Links: |
- http://www.biooekonomie.de/BIOOEKO/Navigation/DE/root,did=174776.html?listBlId=158670&
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CdTe - Life Cycle Assessment support of CdTe Photovoltaic Systems
| Category: |
Energy
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2007 - 2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
LCA of CdTe PV modules and comparison to conventional energy generation systems. Additionally a Material Flow Analysis of Cd in EU-27 is carried out to investigate the Cd flows in products and fates after the end of life. |
CHIC - Clean Hydrogen In European Cities
| Category: |
Energy, Transportation, Automotive
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| Client: |
JTI-FCH-JU (Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking) |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2016 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The Clean Hydrogen in European Cities (CHIC) Project is the essential next step to full commercialisation of hydrogen powered fuel cell (H2FC) buses. CHIC will reduce the time to market for the technology and support market lift off two central objectives of the Joint Undertaking. The CHIC project will: Intensively test the technology to generate learning for the final steps towards commercialisation by: Operating a minimum of 26 H2FC buses in medium sized fleets in normal city bus operation and Substantially enlarging hydrogen infrastructure in 5 European regions. Embed the substantial knowledge and experience gained from previous H2FC bus projects (CUTE & HyFLEET:CUTE). Accelerate the development of clean public transport systems in 14 new European Regions. Conduct a life cycle based sustainability assessment of the use of H2FC buses in public transport, based on a triple bottom line approach considering environmental, economic and social aspects. Identify the advantages, improvement potentials, complementarities and synergies of H2FC buses compared with conventional and alternative technologies Build a critical mass of public support for the benefits of green hydrogen powered transport, leading to increased visibility and political commitment across Europe. |
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CILECCTA - A user-oriented, knowledge-based suite of Construction Industry LifE Cycle CosT Analysis software for pan-European determination and costing of sustainable project options
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2009 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The principal objective of the CILECCTA project is to support the industrialisation of the construction sector particularly through: improved resource efficiency; development of client-driven knowledge-based processes, product and services; improvements in the use of ICT for increased connectivity of the actors in the sector.To achieve these objectives we have brought together a top class consortium of academic and industrial researchers, associations and enterprises both SMEs and LEs to create a link between Whole Life Costing (WLC) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) by developing a suite of full Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) software that: is compatible with codified Price Banks (PBs) and Life Cycle Inventories (LCIs) across Europe; is customisable / configurable for whole assets and their components; enables the assessment of sustainable options to provide decision support; is user-friendly to the 95% of building enterprises that are SMEs across the EU27 and beyond. |
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CO2-Trade-Off - Untersuchung und Bilanzierung des CO2-Emissions-Trade-Offs für direkteinspritzende Otto- und Dieselmotoren für Pkw und Nutzfahrzeuge
CO2-Trade off Analysis of increased Emission Limits for Internal Combustion Engines
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
FVV (subgroup of VDA -German Automotive Association) |
| Duration: |
2001 - 2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Investigation of advanced engine technologies and flue gas cleaning technologies for current (EURO 4 for passenger cars & EURO 3 for heavy duty vehicles) and forfurther enhanced emission regulations (EURO 5 resp. EURO 4). Detailed LCI analysis of the different components (electromagnetic valves, oxidation and De-NOx catalysts etc.) and of other required materials (desulphurised fuels, additives etc.) over their complete life cycle.Considered are the possible influence of those emission reduction measures on the fuel consumption and the output levels of the different emissions (like CO2, SO2, NOx, HCs, PM). |
CommONEnergy - CommONEnergy - re-conceptualize shopping malls from consumerism to energy conservation
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2013 - 2017 (still active) |
| Objective: |
CommONEnergy focuses on existing shopping malls to be refurbished and buildings with a different original function, redesigned to become shopping malls. Whole sales & Retail buildings represent 28% of the total non-residential ones, accounting for approximately 157 Mtoe in 2005. Considering typical shopping malls high impact on modern society, the project addresses their transformation as lighthouses of energy efficient architectures and systems as well as assessment transparency. CommONEnergy has the objective to re-conceptualize shopping malls through deep retrofitting, developing a systemic approach made of technologies and solution sets as well as methods and tools to support their implementation and to assess their impact in a life cycle approach. The main concept to advance the state-of-the-art is the shifting from single-action refurbishment to deepretrofitting, with a systemic performance-driven approach including: integrated design process guidelines, integrative modelling environment, energy-economic evaluation tools, lean construction and management procedures, continuous commissioning approach, environmental and sociocultural impact assessment. The Systemic Retrofitting Approach allows to achieve the foreseen targets: up to factor 4 reduction of energy demand, power peaks shaving and 50% increasing share of renewable energy source favoured by the intelligent energy management and effective storage. 10 to 20 systemic solution-sets will be developed, demonstrating the widest replication of the cases investigated during the project. These outstanding energy performances will be achieved with short pay-back times (below 7 years) and high indoor environmental quality, thanks to industrial conceptualization of the solutions and implementation tools. Organisation of technical workshops for relevant stakeholders contribute to create a generation of skilled practitioners and promote a domino effect to exploit the benefits. |
Construction Materials Database New Zealand - Life Cycle Assessment: Adopting and adapting overseas LCA data and methodologies for building materials in New Zealand
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
NZ Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry + Industry |
| Duration: |
2008 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Description of an appropriate methodology to adapt and/or adopt LCA data of the most relevant construction materials from overseas (Europe, Germany) to New Zealand boundary conditions. |
COST-EFFECTIVE - Resource- and Cost-effective Integration of Renewables in existing High-rise Buildings
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2008 - 2012 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of innovative technologies and systems to integrate the production / provision of renewable energy into facades of existing high rise buildings. The different developed systems will be demonstrated in a building in Madrid, Spain, combined with extensive monitoring prior to and after the installation. |
| Links: |
- http://www.cost-effective-renewables.eu/
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CUTE - Clean Urban Transport for Europe
| Category: |
Energy, Transportation
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2001 - 2005 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Calculation of the environmental impact of the fuel cell (FC) bus systems in comparison to conventional bus systems by LCA.- Determination of environmental burdens of fuel cell buses and conventionally powered buses (diesel and natural gas) along the life cycle phases- Environmental analysis of different ways of hydrogen production- Development of future scenarios- Contribution to Kyoto |
| Links: |
- http://www.fuel-cell-bus-club.com
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DIN-Großbauten - Leitfaden zur Bewertung der Nachhaltigkeit von Bauten für Großveranstaltungen
Guidlines for the Assessment of the Sustainable Performance of Buildings of Mega-Events
| Category: |
Sustainability Assessment |
| Client: |
DIN - Deutsches Institut für Norrmung |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
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DIRECTION - Demonstration at European Level of Innovative and Replicable Effective Solutions for very Low Energy new Buildings
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2012 - 2015 (still active) |
| Objective: |
DIRECTION aims at the creation of a framework of demonstration and dissemination of very innovative and cost-effective energy efficiency technologies for the achievement of very low energy new buildings. This framework is based on three pillars:- Analysis of suitable energy efficiency technologies (technical and economic viability)- Demonstration activity deployed in three new buildings- Dissemination at European LevelThree new buildings will be used as pilots, deploying in each one a set of very innovative measures, constructive elements for energy optimization, high efficient equipment and advanced energy management. All the above allows to enhance the overall energy efficiency of the building in order to achieve consumption (primary energy) lower than 60 kWh/m2/yr. |
| Links: |
- http://www.direction-fp7.eu/
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E-NETZ - Entwicklung eines regionalen Energiemanagement-Konzeptes und Anwendung auf die Technologie-Region Karlsruhe
Development of a regional Energy Management Approach and its Application within the Technology Region Karlsruhe (Germany)
| Category: |
Energy
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
1999 - 2002 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Project goal: Identification of options for a economically and ecologically sustainable energy supply for a group of highly energy demanding companies. The companies are located in close neighbourhood in the harbour of the river Rhine; they belong to different industries. Focus of the approach is the company-spanning linkage of the electrical power and steam supply e.g. by establishing a commonly used steam and power plant.Main tasks: Life Cycle Engineering analysis of the technically and economically viable options of energy supply or energy linkage. Visualisation of the energy flows both within the companies and between the plants. |
E3 - E3 Fraunhofer Leitprojekt
| Category: |
Design for Environment |
| Client: |
Fraunhofer Society |
| Duration: |
2014 - 2016 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Resource efficiency |
ECO-SEE - Eco-innovative, Safe and Energy Efficient wall panels and materials for a healthier indoor environment
| Category: |
Design for Environment, Life Cycle Costing |
| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2013 - 2017 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The ECO-SEE project aims to develop new eco-materials and components for the purpose of creating both healthier and more energy efficient buildings. |
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ECOLIFE II - ECO-efficient LIFE Cycle Technologies - From Products to Service Systems
| Category: |
Electronics
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2002 - 2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Thematic network with focus on the product-service life cycle of electr(on)ic products. Goal is to involve key players in the electronics and automotive industries in all of the various stages of the product-service life cycle. |
ECTOS - Ecological City Transport System
| Category: |
Energy, Transportation
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2001 - 2005 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Implement a demonstration of state-of-the-art hydrogen technology by running part of the public transport system with fuel cell busses within Reykjavík, Iceland. The energy chain will be next to CO2 free, because domestic geothermal and hydro-powered energy sources will be used to produce hydrogen by electrolysis. The main research objectives concern the socio-economic factors involved in changing the energy base of a modern urban society. Parallel to the technical tests there will be several studies on socio-environmental parameters. |
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EeBGuide - Operational guidance of Life Cycle Assessment studies of the Energy Efficient Buildings Initiative
Leitfaden für Ökobilanzstudien im Rahmen der Europäischen Initiative zu energieeffizienten Gebäuden
| Category: |
Construction, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Environmental Product Declaration
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The European research project EeBGuide develops metrics and operational guidance for the preparation of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies for energy-efficient buildings and building products. Ongoing research under the framework of the Energy Efficient Building European Initiative creates technologies for an energy-efficient Europe. LCA is used to assess the environmental benefits of new technologies. The EeBGuide manuals and guidance will support LCA practitioners to obtain comparative results in their work. |
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ELCD I - Internet Site on Life-Cycle Assessment Tools and Services and Life-Cycle Inventory Data in support of European Integrated Product Policy
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2005 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Implementation of web sites ready to be integrated into the EUROPA web-site of the Commission containing: directory of LCA tools and service providers, general LCA information, LCI data and LCI meta data. Provision of data and data sets for a European public LCI database concerning data formats, documentation according to ISO 14048, electronic delivery and technical review. |
| Links: |
- http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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ELCD II - Enhancement of the ELCD Core Database
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2007 - 2008 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The project "Enhancement of the ELCD core database" enhanced this first version of the ELCD core database (115 data sets) with data sets of further core goods and services (over 300), by improving the harmonisation of all data sets, and by providing a set of reference elementary flows and an accompanying document on nomenclature and other conventions for these flows.The project contributes to support business and public administrations within the European Union with consistent Life Cycle background data based on a consistent nomenclature and convention. The data will be available free of charge to LCA practitioners world-wide.This support is essential, and was achieved through a number of different tasks: Further harmonisation of existing ELCD data sets, Provision of additional (Enhancement) ELCD data sets, Development of a "Reference document on elementary flows and other conventions" and provision of a set of reference elementary flows. (ILCD reference elementary flow list). |
| Links: |
- http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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Emissionsbilanz Pkw - Emissionsbilanz PKW über den gesamten Lebenszyklus
Life Cycle Emission Balance of a Passenger Car
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
UBA (German Federal Environment Agency) |
| Duration: |
1998 - 1999 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Balance on emissions to air that occur during the life cycle of a passenger car, e.g. CO, NMVOC, CH4, PM, CO2, benzene, Pb, FCKW, N2O, aldehydes. The consideration includes manufacturing, fuel production, utilization, maintenance and recycling and disposal in the end of life |
ENDAMI - Environmental Data Models and Interface development in aviation
| Category: |
Aviation, Transportation, Databases and Data Format
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| Client: |
JTI CleanSky |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2014 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The ENDAMI project is supported by the EU under Clean Sky. Within ENDAMI, a consortium formed by University of Stuttgart, PE International and BRE will assess and quantify environmental impacts of aviation products and processes. The consortium is supported by a Material Board with Constellium, SGL Carbon, TiRus and AVK.By conducting Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) over the whole life cycle, the environmental impacts of aviation products and processes will be quantified, allowing a systematic improvement. Furthermore, an aviation specific LCA database will be created, that together with the EDA-LCA tool, will allow conducting aviation specific LCA studies. |
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Energie-Autarkie - Analyse der Energie-Autarkiepotenziale für Baden-Württemberg mittels integrierter Energiesystemmodellierung
| Category: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Energy
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| Client: |
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| Duration: |
2013 - 2016 (still active) |
| Objective: |
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EPIC-ICT - Development of Environmental Performance Indicators for ICT Products on the example of Personal Computer
| Category: |
Electronics
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2004 - 2006 (completed) |
| Objective: |
EPIC-ICT will define environmental performance indicators for ICT products at the example of PCs. The indicators will relate to easy to define product properties, e.g. clock rate, power demand etc., and are based on environmental impacts defined with LCA based on available technical specification of PCs and of its functions and components. Main key points are: 1) Identification of PC functions and customer demands 2) Translation of 1) into electronic specifics 3) Application of available "Generic Modules" for LCA modelling with a minimum on effort 4) Environmental evaluation and recursion/reference to definitions in 1) and 2) 5) Identification of most relevant indicators and transfer to other ICT products. |
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EUROFER-SSPG - Life Cycle Inventory Study on Stainless Steel Production in the EU
| Category: |
Metals
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| Client: |
EUROFER |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Generation of a LCI database for the production of stainless steels in Europe |
EVREST - Electric Vehicle with Range Extender as a Sustainable Technology
| Category: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Automotive, Transportation
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| Client: |
BMWi (PT-DLR) |
| Duration: |
2012 - 2015 (still active) |
| Objective: |
In EVREST Life Cycle Assessment models of small and compact EREVs (Extended range electric vehicles) and equivalent reference vehicles are developed, considering the production and the use phase. The assessments of small vehicles focus on an environmental comparison of the developed small EREV with an equivalent BEV (battery electric vehicle) while the compact EREVs are compared with equivalent conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles. The LCA results of the use phase of the assessed EREVs are also analysed with regard to their spatial distribution based on WP4 results. The mobiTopp traffic simulation results define all vehicle trips during one week in the model region, the results of the energy supply model allow determining the time dependent and local electricity grid mix during charging operation. Different scenarios with increasing EREV shares and various charging options are assessed and compared with a reference scenario without electric vehicles. The results are graphically presented in maps showing the relative savings compared to the reference scenario. |
| Links: |
- http://www.evrest-project.org/
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FC-HyGuide - Leitfaden zur Erstellung von Ökobilanzen von Wasserstoffproduktions- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie
Guidance document for performing LCAs on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies
| Category: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Energy
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| Client: |
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The overall goal of the project "SP1-JTI-FCH.2009.5.5 LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA)" was to develop a specific guidance document for application to hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and related training material with courses for practitioners in industry and research.It is foreseen that this guidance document will be applied to all projects funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) involving LCA in the field of hydrogen production systems and fuel cell technologies.The guidance document is based on and in line with the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook on LCA, coordinated by the European Commission's JRC-IES, through the European Platform on LCA. The ILCD Handbook is applicable to a wide range of different decision-contexts and sectors, and therefore needs to be translated to product-specific criteria, guidelines and simplified tools to foster LCA applications in the specific industry sectors. The FC-HyGuide project responds to this need by providing a guidance document on how to perform every step of a LCA for hydrogen (H2) production systems and fuel cell technologies.Including hydrogen production and fuel cell technology specific examples the "manual" offers a step-by-step guidance for LCA practitioners in industry and research. |
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FSEM - "Fraunhofer Systemforschung Elektromobilität", Schwerpunkt 4 "Technische Systemintegration, gesellschaftspolitische Fragestellungen und Projektmanagement"
"Fraunhofer System Research on electric powered mobility", Project 4 "Technical System Integration, socio-political topics and project management"
| Category: |
Automotive, Transportation
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Main goal of the project SP4 within the Fraunhofer System Research on electrical powered mobility is the technical system integration and the analysis of socio-political topics. Working Task 4 investigates therefore the developed master concepts of E-mobility on different sustainability aspects, like resource depletion and constrains, acoustics, in-cabin room emissions and caused environmental impacts. Main task of IBP-GaBi is the environmental analysis of developed master concepts. |
| Links: |
- http://www.elektromobilitaet.fraunhofer.de/
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FSEM - Fraunhofer Systemforschung Elektromobilität, Schwerpunkt 5: Funktion, Zuverlässigkeit, Prüfung und Realisierung; TP-5D
"Fraunhofer System Research on electric powered mobility", Project 5: "Function, Reliability, Testing and Implementation", WP-5D
| Category: |
Automotive, Transportation
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2011 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Work package 5D addresses "detailed studies concerning the availability of critical resources and the usage behaviour" in the context of e-mobility. In the framework of this work package detailed Life Cycle Assessment studies on alternative battery systems, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle concepts, utilization scenarios as well as a resource oriented assessment of selected production processes in the automotive sector is carried out. Main goal of the studies is a comprehensive overview on existing recycling processes and concepts, a better understanding on the environmental performance of e-mobility concepts and the evaluation of production processes from the perspective of sustainability. |
| Links: |
- http://www.elektromobilitaet.fraunhofer.de/
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FTP - Kreislaufführung flüssigkeitstragender Polymerbauteile
Recycling of Automotive and Household Polymer Fuel Tanks
| Category: |
Recycling and Landfill
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2001 - 2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Investigation of a technology to extract fuel residues from fuel tank materials using supercritical CO2 as solvent. Development of sustainable recycling concepts of fuel tanks. Comparison of recommended recycling procedures to alternatives like energy recovery from incineration. |
GBA - Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung in der Automobilindustrie (GBA) "Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung am Beispiel Kotflügelpaare und Fahrertür"
Life Cycle Engineering in the Automotive Industry (GBA) "LCE at the example of a wing an a driver's door"
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
1992 - 1995 (completed) |
| Objective: |
(RH2). |
Golf III - Ganzautobilanz Golf III
Life Cycle Engineering of a Golf III
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
1993 - 1995 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment of a complete automobile (Golf III): LCA throughout the whole life cycle |
grEEEn - Cost Management System for greening Electrical and Electronic Equipment
| Category: |
Electronics
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2001 - 2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of a Cost Management System (CMS) supporting strategic decisions for the development of eco-efficient Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Development and demonstration of the software tool "green", assessment of the method and the tool in five case studies about grEEEn product prototypes in industry. |
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HAF - Vergleichende Ökobilanzierung Holzbauweise / Massivbauweise
Comparative LCA Study of different Construction Methods for Family Homes (massive construction and wooden light construction)
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
Holzabsatzfonds (German Timber Promotion Fund) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Comparative study according DIN EN ISO 14040 and 14044 of different construction methods (massive construction and wooden light construction) for family homes. |
Holz r3 - NaBau-5 Holz R³, Ressourcenschonend, Regional, Robotisch gefertigt - Holzleichtbau und digitale Planung für das Bauen im Bestand
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
Baden-Württemberg Stiftung |
| Duration: |
2015 - 2018 (still active) |
| Objective: |
development of an integrative design and prroduction process development of a resource efficient and adaptive timber construction system development of static optimization methods sustainability analysis, life cycle engineering and life cycle assesment |
HyFLEET:CUTE - Hydrogen for Clean Urban Transport in Europe
| Category: |
Energy, Transportation
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Calculation of the environmental impact of the hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) and Fuel Cell (FC) bus systems in comparison to conventional bus systems by LCA.- Adaptation of LCA study to Chinese and Australian boundary conditions- Cost analysis of hydrogen in relation to the requested purity- Environmental analysis of different ways of hydrogen production- Development of future scenarios- Evaluation of the bus operation performance using the sofi-software system |
| Links: |
- http://www.global-hydrogen-bus-platform.com
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HyTEC - Hydrogen Transport in European Cities
| Category: |
Automotive, Transportation
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| Client: |
JTI-FCH-JU (Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking) |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2014 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The HyTEC project will expand the existing European network of hydrogen demonstration sites into two of the most promising early markets for hydrogen and fuel cells, Denmark and the UK. The capital cities of Copenhagen and London will deploy a fleet of 30 next generation hydrogen fuel cell passenger vehicles in three different vehicle classes taxis, passenger cars and scooters. These state-of-the-art vehicles will be used in day to day urban fleet operations, thus taking a step forward from technology demonstration projects, towards fuel cell vehicles in the hands of real users. New publicly accessible fuelling stations will lead to genuine refuelling networks covering each capital city. These will be appropriate for expanding the pre-commercial rollout of hydrogen vehicles. An extensive research program will assess the technical performance of the vehicles over a two year demonstration period, a life cycle impact assessment of the vehicles will demonstrate the overall well to wheels impacts and social studies will investigate the non-technical barriers. The results of the project will inform future commercialisation and infrastructure rollout planning by policy makers and industry players. A widespread dissemination campaign will be aimed at improving public awareness of the potential for hydrogen vehicles as a future low carbon transport solution. This will be backed up by a more targeted campaign aiming at industry players, opinion formers and key policy makers across Europe. For the first time, the project will create genuine links between the new and existing European hydrogen demonstration projects, with a view to informing ongoing strategic planning for hydrogen rollout and also ensuring a common voice towards the expansion of the hydrogen vehicle fleet in Europe towards commercialisation. |
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IISI - Tools and Services for Life Cycle Inventories, GHG Accounting and related Data Management at IISI
| Category: |
Metals
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| Client: |
worldsteel Association (former IISI - The International Iron and Steel Institute) |
| Duration: |
2004 - 2007 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The project objectives are the migration of existing LCI process data from TEAM to GaBi, the build-up of a consistent and functional steel production LCI system model meeting IISIs requirements in terms of Life Cycle Inventory analysis and GHG accounting for all sites presently modelled at IISI as well as the development of an efficient web-based data update solution for all IISI member companies. |
| Links: |
- http://www.worldsteel.org/
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IMPRO-Building - Environmental Improvement Potentials of Residential Buildings
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2007 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Provide a general overview of residential buildings in the EU-25 and definition of the appropriate geographical resolution, detailed analysis of the life cycle impacts of the building structure, as well as identification and analysis of the main environmental impacts. |
| Links: |
- http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC46667.pdf
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Innendämmungen - Energetische Untersuchungen und Optimierungen von Innendämmungen
Energetic investigation and optimizing of internall wall insulation
| Category: |
Sustainable Buildings Certification, Construction, Renewable Ressources and Food
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| Client: |
BMWi through PtJ |
| Duration: |
2012 - 2016 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The objective of this project is to find appropriate wall insulation materials for historic buildings that satisfy physical as well as environmental criteria and is reversible at the same time. |
Insulation made of hemp - Entwicklung eines vollständig biogenen Wärmedämmstoffs
Development of a complete biogenous Insulating Material
| Category: |
Renewable Ressources and Food
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| Client: |
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) |
| Duration: |
2005 - 2007 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Conduction of a design accompanying Life Cycle Assessment study: In the course of the project the bicomponent polyester supporting fiber made of fossil resources was replaced by a supporting fiber on the basis of polylactic acid. The result is a complete biogenous insulating material. |
Intra R³+ - r³ Innovative Technologien für Ressourceneffizienz Strategische Metalle und Mineralien
Integration- and Transfer Project "Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficiency - Strategic Metals and Minerals"
| Category: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Sustainability Assessment |
| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2015 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Intra R3+ puts the focus on the networking and support of several projects within the Integration- and Transfer Project "r3 Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficiency - Strategic Metals and Minerals". The tasks of Intra R3+ are internal integration, public relation, the improvement of national and international cooperations, analysis of the results in relation to sustainability with focus on environmental life cycle, economics and security of supply, and the preperation of the transfer of new technologies and products into the economy together with the r3-project leader. |
| Links: |
- http://www.r3-innovation.de/de/15430
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LABELAGRIWASTE - Labelling Agricultural Plastic Waste for Valorising the Waste Stream
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Labelling agricultural plastic waste for disposal at the European level to facilitate a better and economic feasible environmental management of agricultural plastic waste. At farm-enterprise level and at the agricultural community social and environmental level in a unique way throughout Europe. The main objective of the pre-normative research project is to develop standardised procedures and methodologies to label the agricultural plastic waste streams in order to facilitate their routing to the best alternative processing and final disposal (most environmental friendly, economic and technically feasible). |
Land Use IA / Forestry - Land Use Impact Assessment of Forestry Processes - Methodology development
| Category: |
Land Use and Biodiversity
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2008 - 2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Formulation of a method that allows the evaluation of forestry related effects on land quality in a way that is in line with general requirements for Life Cycle Assessment and demonstration of the method in a case study. |
Land-Use - LCI Data on Land Use of selected Japanese Imports
| Category: |
Land Use and Biodiversity
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| Client: |
Jemai / AIST |
| Duration: |
1999 - 2000 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Investigation for LCI parameters on land use for bauxite (Australia, Brazil, Russia), alumina (Australia, Brazil, Russia), aluminium smelters (Australia, Brazil, Russia), copper ore (Indonesia, Canada, Chile), copper refinery (Indonesia, Canada, Chile), hard coal (Australia, Canada, USA). |
LANDSCAPE - LANDSCAPE - "Forest landscapes for LBP supply and their environmental properties"
| Category: |
Land Use and Biodiversity
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| Client: |
ACE aisbl |
| Duration: |
2015 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Creation of a forestry map to map ecosystem services and values in forests used by liquid packaging board partners |
LCA DATIM - Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) - Clean Sky Initiative - Eco-Design Airframe (EDA) - Life Cycle Assessment Database Improvement
| Category: |
Aviation, Transportation, Databases and Data Format
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| Client: |
JTI CleanSky |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2011 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Set up of an LCA database containing aviation specific datasets on processes. |
LeNaMan - Leitfaden Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement - Integration und Kommunikation von Nachhaltigkeit in außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen
| Category: |
Sustainability Assessment, Construction, Method
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| Client: |
BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) |
| Duration: |
2014 - 2016 (still active) |
| Objective: |
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LOOP - Das Ressourceneffizienznetzwerk
The Resource and Energy Efficiency Network
| Category: |
Recycling and Landfill
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
1999 - 2003 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The "LOOP" network focuses on improving resources and energy efficiency in industrial enterprises, especially in product design and production, but also in recycling and disposal processes. Having focussed initially merely on the recycling of materials, now the network offers the entire range of efficiency improvement, from consultancy (technology, economics, ecology) to materials, product, and process development. |
| Links: |
- http://www.werkstoffkreislauf.de
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LuBaWü - Bewertung regionaler Landnutzungs- und Biodiversitätsaspekte in der Produktökobilanz (LCA) für die Bioökonomie in Baden-Württemberg
Evaluation of regionalized land use and biodiversity aspects in LCA for biobased products in Baden-Württemberg
| Category: |
Land Use and Biodiversity, Renewable Ressources and Food, Energy
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| Client: |
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg |
| Duration: |
2014 - 2017 (still active) |
| Objective: |
1. Weiterentwicklung von LANCA sowie der Biodiversitätsmethode um aktuelle Berechnungsvorschriften und Datenbanken. 2. Feststellung der Wirkungsstärke der Ökosystemdienstleistungen in der jeweiligen Region (wie gravierend ist die Erosion hier?). |
MERCOSUR - MERCOSUR Marketing in Research
MERCOSUR Marketing in Research
| Category: |
Method |
| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2008 - 2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Intensify already existing contacts and co-operations between research organisations in Brazil and Germany, Initiating new contacts and co-operations in the areas research, research-intensive services, education and training between Brazil and Germany, Elaborating/documenting concrete ideas for bilateral (R&D) projects to be proposed to public authorities or other financial sponsors in both countries, or to be carried out in direct cooperation with industry. |
MESSIB - Multi-source Energy Storage System Integrated in Buildings
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2012 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of storage systems for both, electric and thermal energy in buildings to increase the buildings energy efficiency by levelling their overall energy consumption. The developed systems will be demonstrated in one new residential building in Greece and in one existing office building in Germany. The demonstration is accompanied by extensive monitoring procedures. |
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MONA - Monitoring des Biomethanproduktionsprozesses
Monitoring of the Biomethane production process
| Category: |
Energy, Renewable Ressources and Food
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| Client: |
FNR e.V. |
| Duration: |
2011 - 2014 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The overall objective of this project is an evaluation of biogas upgrading technologies for biogas grid injection or utilisation as vehicle fuel with regard to environmental impact, economy, operation and technology. For this plants already in operation will be monitored. The focus of this evaluation will be on investment and operational costs, personnel requirement, energy demand (heat and electricity), demand on operating material (water, chemicals, activated carbon, grease, etc.), waste (used activated carbon, wastewater, membranes, etc.), plant availabilities (downtimes, repair times, maintenance times) and environmental impact (methane loss of different operating conditions). Furthermore a quantitation and qualification of raw gas (biogas), product gas (biomethane) and waste gas streams (outlet biogas upgrading and outlet exhaust gas treatment) will be done. |
NaBrü - Ganzheitliche Bewertung von Stahl- und Verbundbrücken nach Kriterien der Nachhaltigkeit
Holistic assessment of steel and composite bridgesaccording to criteria of sustainability
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment
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| Client: |
AIF - Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Goal of the project is a holistic assessment for bridge constructions, especially for steel and composite bridges. To cover environmental, economic and socio-functional aspects, criteria are defined and a set of examples is provided. and composite bridges. For this purpose, the three aspects of ecological quality, economical |
NaBrüEis - Ganzheitliche Bewertung von Stahl- und Verbundeisenbahnbrücken nach Kriterien der Nachhaltigkeit
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment
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| Client: |
AiF- German Federation of Industrial Research Association |
| Duration: |
2013 - 2015 (still active) |
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nanomembrane - Nanoporöse keramische Membranen zur nachhaltigen Wasser- und Lösemitteleinsparung durch Kreislaufschließung
Ceramic Nano membranes for sustainable water and chemical use through internal recycling
| Category: |
Ceramics |
| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
New ceramic based "NanoMebranes" (<0.9nm; 200g/mol) are developed to be apllied into water and chemical intensive industrial processes in several industies (textiles, chemistry, metall processing) to enhance the process water and chemical cycles of processes. Herefore the sustainability potential of the new membrane are evaluated. The project includes the development of such ceramics and the apllication and testing in selected industrial processes. A accompanying life cylce assessment study analyses the the environmental profile of devoloped NanoMembranes. |
NARO - Enhancement of Land Use Impact Assessment of biofuel feedstock cultivation in Japan
| Category: |
Land Use and Biodiversity, Renewable Ressources and Food
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| Client: |
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Japan |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2011 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Enhancement of land use impact assessment for the indicators of Carbon Sequestration and Biodiversity, Case studies for biofuel feedstock cultivation in Japan. |
National Brazilian LCA Database - Sustainable Evaluation of the Brazilian Diesel Production and Distribution through an Analysis based on Process Chain
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2008 (completed) |
| Objective: |
This project is part of the project "National Brazilian LCI Database" funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. The goal of the project consists on the creation of a national LCI database (containing a multitude of data sets), which will enable practitioners the performance of life cycle assessments and therefore bring a valuable contribution to sustainability. Tasks are the creation of a specific LCI data set for the production of 1 kg diesel fuel under Brazilian conditions; generation of a methodology report in which the procedure for the creation of a LCI inventories is described and capacity building regarding the methodology in order to provide a code of practice for future data supplier and assure the same consistency and quality standards. |
| Links: |
- http://acv.ibict.br/publicacoes/inventarios-brasileiros/datasets-da-replan-no-inventario-do-diesel-brasileiro/
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National Malaysian LCA database - Malaysia - The National LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) Project
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
SIRIM mandated by the Government and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment |
| Duration: |
2008 - 2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The National LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) project is a mandate from the government of Malaysia under the ninth Malaysia plan to develop the National Life Cycle Inventory database. The database will be used to conduct life cycle assessment studies, support the national ecolabelling programme and fulfil the requirements of foreign legislation that demand evidence on the control measures taken to reduce environmental impact of products and services throughout their life cycle.Main objectives of the National LCA Project is to develop and set-up the national life cycle inventory database. |
| Links: |
- http://www.lcamalaysia.com
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NaWaRo max - Maximaler Einsatz nachwachsender Rohstoffe in Gebäuden
Renewable raw materials in buildings - maximium use
| Category: |
Renewable Ressources and Food
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research); MLR (Ministry of Rural Affairs Baden-Württemberg |
| Duration: |
1999 - 2001 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Maximum use of renewable raw materials in order to support regional cycles of materials - Analysing the limitations and possibilities in the building and construction industry. |
Net.LZD - Förderung der Wissenschaftskooperation zum Aufbau und Umsetzung des deutschen Netzwerk Lebenszyklusdaten
German Network on Life Cycle Inventory Data
| Category: |
Databases and Data Format |
| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2007 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Creation of a permanent infrastructure for quality assurance and scientific coverage of data collection and methodology of data preparation for environmentally relevant material and energy flows to and from technical process chains ("Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Data"). Holistic evaluation of environmental effects over the entire supply chain from production over use phase and end-of-life of products as decision support and for identification of control mechanisms for a sustainable development. Gathering, description and interpretation of environmentally relevant material and energy flows according to Life Cycle Assessment ISO 14040 ff. with Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) as main component. Research groups: Energy, Metal Raw Materials, Materials in Building Industry, Transport, Operational Material Flows, Product Development / IPP, Methodology. |
| Links: |
- http://www.lci-network.de
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NiCd-MeH - Vergleich von Batteriesystemen im Automobil (NiCd-MeH)
Comparison of Battery Systems in the Automotive Sector (NiCd-MeH)
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
1992 - 1993 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment and comparison of different battery technologies used in the automotive sector. |
NICETRIP - Novel Innovative Competitive Effective Tilt Rotor Integrated Project
| Category: |
Aviation, Transportation, Databases and Data Format
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2006 - 2013 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The goal of the project is to significantly contribute to the development of a European tilt-rotor demonstrator by achieving the industrial objective of acquiring, validating and integrating tilt-rotor technology for the benefit of the European aerospace and associated supplier industries. Within that a sustainability evaluation focusing on the environmental performance will be carried out and the environmental hot spots will be identified and improvement potentials derived. |
| Links: |
- http://nicetrip.onera.fr/
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Ökopot - BMBF-Förderschwerpunkt: Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft, Verbundprojekt: ÖkoPot - Ökologische Potenziale durch Holznutzung gezielt fördern
Ecological Market Potentials of Wood Products
| Category: |
Renewable Ressources and Food
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2005 - 2008 (completed) |
| Objective: |
This scientific project yields on the assessment of ecological market potentials of a shift from not-wooden products to wood products and the extension of demand for wood products. It will deliver guidelines for companies active on the wood product market or other (political) actors, interested on the ecological market potentials. |
| Links: |
- http://www.oekopot.de/www/files/bmbf_fkz0330545_oekopot_endbericht.pdf
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Ökosicherheitsrelais - ZIM Ökosicherheitsrelais: EuP Konformes Design von Elektronikprodukten für KMUs
ZIM: EuP compliant design of electronics products for SMEs, at the example of a safety-relais
| Category: |
Electronics, Design for Environment, Method
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| Client: |
AIF - Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Main goal of the project is the "development of new service systems for the design and layout of electronic products under consideration of the requirements of the EuP- directive at the example of an Emergency-Stop Safety relay and its printed wiring board". In the framework of the project the dept. LCE develops a method for a cost and resource efficient assessment of electronic products by taking the requirements of the EuP directive into account. Based on the method a tool is developed in co-operation with the project partners that shall support the SMEs for the design of EuP compliant electronic products. The method and tool are tested at the example of the environmental and economical optimization of an Emergency-Stop Safety relay. |
openhouse - Benchmarking and mainstreaming building sustainability in the EU based on transparency and openness (open source and availability) from model to implementation
Vergleich und Vereinheitlichung von Ansätzen zur Bewertung von Gebäudenachhaltigkeit in der EU
| Category: |
Construction
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2010 - 2012 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The overall objective of OPEN HOUSE is to develop and to implement a transparent, common European building assessment methodology, complementing the existing ones, for planning and constructing sustainable buildings by means of an open approach and technical platform. |
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P&B2G - Power&Biomass2Gas - Potenziale der Speicherung erneuerbarer Energie durchgasförmige Kohlenwasserstoffe auf Basis flexibler Biomassenutzung und Auswirkungen auf dieStrombereitstellung und Netzentlastung in Baden-Württemberg
| Category: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Energy
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| Client: |
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| Duration: |
2013 - 2016 (still active) |
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PDR - Ökobilanz für das Recycling von Polyurethan-Schaumdosen nach dem PDR-Verfahren
Life Cycle Assessment for the Recycling of Polyurethane Foam Cans according to the PDR-system
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
PDR (Produkte durch Recycling GmbH, engl. Products from recycling) |
| Duration: |
2002 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment for the recycling of polyurethane foam cans according to the PDR-system and comparison to alternative processes. |
| Links: |
- http://www.pdr.de/aktuelles_hintergrundberichte_detail_de,213,2191,detail.html
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PlasCarb - Innovative plasma based transformation of food waste into high value graphitic carbon and renewable hydrogen
| Category: |
Renewable Ressources and Food, Chemistry and Biotechnology
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| Client: |
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| Duration: |
2013 - 2016 (still active) |
| Objective: |
PlasCarb will use mixed food waste as a feedstock to manufacture products for two significant growing markets: high value graphitic carbon, identified as one of EU´s 14 economically critical raw materials, and renewable hydrogen (RH2). PlasCarb integrates technical innovation and sustainable business model development to promote future market uptake. Industry and research will collaborate to combine anaerobic digestion (AD), innovative low temperature microwave plasma processing and leading edge control of carbon morphology and purification. PlasCarb will extend beyond current Best Available Techniques (BAT) in valorising food waste to generate renewable energy. It will transform biogas generated by anaerobic digestion of food waste (GAP) using an innovative low energy microwave plasma process to split methane into high value graphitic carbon and RH2. The quality and economic value of the carbon and RH2 will then be optimised by integrating high quality research and industrial process engineering expertise. IBP GaBi identified as recognised life cycle experts will ensure that the approach is sustainable and BAT for food waste management across Europe on a decentralised basis. |
Polyolefines - Ressourcenschonende Herstellung von Polymer-Werkstoffen am Beispiel Polyolefine
Resource Benign Production of Polymers
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
UBA (German Federal Environment Agency) |
| Duration: |
1998 - 2000 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Determination of Best Available Technology (BAT) in Germany; Up to Date Technique of Polyolefin Synthesis (in Collaboration with industry); Possibilities of production integrated environmental management; Possible Optimisation potentials (incl. evaluation of processes); Polymers under consideration: PE, PP, PS, PVC, ABS, PA; Goal: Determination of polyolefin synthesis technologies, which are used today and in the near future. |
| Links: |
- http://www.umweltdaten.de/publikationen/fpdf-l/2464.pdf
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Praxperform E - Bewertung der Praxistauglichkeit und Umweltperformance von Elektro-PKW und Nutzfahrzeugen
Evaluation of the suitability for daily use and environmental performance of electric vehicles
| Category: |
Automotive, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering
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| Client: |
NOW, BMVI |
| Duration: |
2013 - 2015 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Goal of the project Praxperform E is the evaluation of the suitability for daily use and the environmental assessment of current electric and hybrid vehicle concepts. Basis for the evaluation is the collected data and use profiles of electric vehicle fleets of current demonstration projects of the Research programm "Modellregionen Elektromobilität". Main goal of the data collection is to extend the knowledge on use profiles of electric vehicles in different use clustern, like carsharing fleets, private use, commercial fleets, delivery services etc.. The long term data collection is carried out by PE International AG. This data is further used for the environmental assessment (LCA) is carried out by Fraunhofer IBP, dept., which adresses environmental impacts along the whole life cycle of electric verhicles, from ressource extraction, the prodution of components and vehicles, the utilisation until the final treatment at the end of life. Based on the gained knowledge, the required boundary conditions for the environmental benefical use of analysed vehicle concepts and use clusters is evaluated. |
PVPS Task 12 - Beitrag zu PVPS Task 12 - PV Environmental Health &
Safety Activities
Supporting Task 12 of the IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme: " PV Environmental Health & SafetyActivities"
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Energy
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| Client: |
BMU (German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety) |
| Duration: |
2008 - 2012 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The goal of the PVPS Task 12 is to facilitate a common understanding of EH&S issues of photovoltaics among the various country-members, and disseminate the task-group's knowledge and understanding to the stake holders and to the energy- and environmental policy decision makers. 1. The overall objectives of Task 12 are to: Quantify the environmental profile of PV in comparison to other energy technologies; 2. Define and address EH&S and sustainability issues that are important for market growth; The first objective of this task can be served with life cycle analysis (LCA) that describes energy, material and emission flows in all the stages of the life of PV. The second objective will be addressed with assisting the collective action of PV companies on defining material availability and product recycling issues and on communicating "lessons learned" from incidents or potential incidents in PV production facilities. The third objective (i.e., dissemination) will be accomplished by presentations to broad audiences, producing simple fact sheets documented by comprehensive reports, and engaging industry associations and the media in the dissemination of the information. |
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- http://www.iea-pvps.org/tasks/task12.htmhttp://www.forschungsjahrbuch.de/
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r² - Innovative Technologien für Ressourceneffizienz - rohstoffintensive Produktionsprozesse
Integration- and Transfer Project "Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficiency in Production Processes"
| Category: |
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Sustainability Assessment |
| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2012 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Support of several projects within "Innovative technologies for resource efficiency in production processes". The project is divided into four main tasks: 1. To interconnect the involved projects to enhance information an knowledge transfer (Creation of technology, methodology and industry clusters; preparation of workshop series, interconnection with external research activities.)2. Technical and scientific support of the projects: Sustainability support (socio-economic and environmental issues), technology implementation (Road mapping, service system models)3. Support of BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 4. Dissemination work |
| Links: |
- http://www.r-zwei-innovation.de/
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SCWO - Aufbereitung und Verwertung von Elektronikschrott durch überkritische Nassoxidation, Teilvorhaben 05 - Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung und Bewertung von Elektronik-Schrott Verwertungsverfahren (Super Critical Water Oxidation)
Conditioning and Recycling of Electronic Scrap with Super Critical Water Oxidation
| Category: |
Electronics
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
1996 - 1999 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of procedures for a chemical recycling of electronic wastes, especially a procedure for the oxidation of organic contents including a recovery of inorganic materials, like metals, glass fibres and ceramics. |
SENSE - Sustainability Evaluation of Solar Energy Systems
| Category: |
Energy
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2003 - 2005 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The today's main challenges for the solar industry are the need to reduce prices for solar systems, the foreseeable scarceness of raw materials and the necessary improvement of the energy pay back time. The unsolved recycling issues will become a problem in the near future. The project SENSE will face these challenges by developing recycling strategies for a-Si, CIS and CdTe solar cells and by scientifically based analysis of the efficiency of the solar systems, based on Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). This has to consider production, use and End of Life (EoL) aspects of the complete systems to be holistic. As recycling is a possibility to save energy for the primary production of new materials, it also will affect the energy payback time positively, beneath the reduction of the material scarceness and the reduction of material costs. |
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SENSKIN - SENsing SKIN for Monitoring-Based Maintenance of the Transport Infrastructure
| Category: |
Sustainability Assessment, Construction, Transportation
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2015 - 2018 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Development of a new innovative micro-electronic, skin-like, sensor for self-monitoring/self-reporting of transport infrastructure (bridges) and integration within emerging Delay (or Disruption) Tolerant Networks (DTNs) technology. Furthermore, integration of this bridge monitoring system within a Decision Support System (DSS), that is developed for determining interventions for normal operating conditions and following a major incident. Decisions will be based on a structural assessment derived from the data from the sensors, life-cycle economic and environmental implications of feasible rehabilitation options, and the resilience of the infrastructure to changes in traffic demand and/or climate change that these options offer. Implementation of new sensor, DTNs and DSS in the case of bridges, testing, refining, evaluating and benchmarking the SENSKIN monitoring system/package on actual bridges. |
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SESAM - SESAM - Gewinnung von Sekundärrohstoffen aus Flugaschen der Müllverbrennung
SESAM - Recovery of secondary ressources from waste incineration fly ashes
| Category: |
Recycling and Landfill, Material and Substance Flow Analysis
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| Client: |
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung |
| Duration: |
2015 - 2018 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Recovery and concentration of metall(oid)s from waste incineration fly ashes within innovative technology approaches. |
| Links: |
- http://www.sesam.tum.de/index.php?id=36
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SIM - Sustainability of Packaging Systems for Fruit and Vegetable Transport in Europe on basis of Life Cycle Analysis - update 2009
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM) |
| Duration: |
2008 - 2009 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Goal of the study is an update of the analysis of the environmental impacts of the production, utilisation and "end of life" of three packaging systems (wooden boxes, cardboard boxes and plastic crates). This includes the individual distribution systems like one-way or multi-way for the transport of fruit and vegetables in Europe. Additionally to the environmental impacts, which are the core of this life-cycle assessment, the study will also integrate cost factors over the entire life cycle and considers social characteristics of the examined products and process chains. The environmental part is based on the ISO 14040 ff. and framed by cost and social factors to enable conclusions leading towards a higher sustainability of the fruit and vegetable packaging and transportation system. Sensitivity analyses are conducted and different scenarios are assessed in order to quantify the influence of different parameter settings (e.g. production efficiencies, lifetime, recycling shares etc.) throughout the life-cycle of fruit and vegetable packaging with the most common solutions in Europe. |
| Links: |
- http://www.stiftung-mehrweg.de/downloads/Executive%20Summary_en_090506.pdfhttp://www.stiftung-mehrweg.de/downloads/Executive%20Summary_de_090506.pdf
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SIM - Life Cycle Assessment of Beverage Packaging
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM) |
| Duration: |
2003 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment of Beverage Packaging - Enhancement with Scenarios for composite Boards |
SIM - Sustainability of Packaging Systems for Fruit and Vegetable Transport in Europe on basis of Life Cycle Analysis
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM) |
| Duration: |
2005 - 2007 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Goal of the study is an analysis of the environmental impacts of the production, utilisation and "end of life" of three packaging systems (wooden boxes, cardboard boxes and plastic crates). This includes the individual distribution systems like one-way or multi-way for the transport of fruit and vegetables in Europe. Additionally to the environmental impacts, which are the core of this life-cycle assessment, the study will also integrate cost factors over the entire life cycle and considers social characteristics of the examined products and process chains. The environmental part is based on the ISO 14040 ff. and framed by cost and social factors to enable conclusions leading towards a higher sustainability of the fruit and vegetable packaging and transportation system. Sensitivity analyses are conducted and different scenarios are assessed in order to quantify the influence of different parameter settings (e.g. production efficiencies, lifetime, recycling shares etc.) throughout the life-cycle of fruit and vegetable packaging with the most common solutions in Europe. |
| Links: |
- http://www.stiftung-mehrweg.de/downloads/Executive%20Summary_en_090506.pdfhttp://www.stiftung-mehrweg.de/downloads/Executive%20Summary_de_090506.pdf
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SIM - Mauerwerk - Stoffkreislauf im Mauerwerksbau - Nachhaltigkeitsanalyse für das Mauerwerksrecycling
SIM-Tool - Erstellung eines Internet-Tools zur Veranschaulichung der Ergebnisse der Studie "Nachhaltigkeit von Verpackungssystemen für Obst- und Gemüsetransporte in Europa basierend auf einer Lebenszyklusanalyse - Aktualisierung 2009"
| Category: |
Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg (SIM) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2010 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of a user-friendly web calculator which illustrates the results of the study "Sustainability of Packaging Systems for Fruit and Vegetable Transport in Europe on basis of Life Cycle Analysis - update 2009". |
| Links: |
- http://www.stiftung-mehrweg.de/calculator/Calculator_de.html
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SINTEG - Eco-Accounting of Manufacturing of Lining Elements
Ganzheitliche Bilanzierung der Herstellung von Kabinenbauteilen
| Category: |
Aviation, Plastics and composites
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2011 (still active) |
| Objective: |
Evaluation of environmental performance current lining production. Identification of key technologies with regard to economic and environmental performance. Investigation of new components regarding design, materials, machines and processes. Validation of the different approaches by lab scale samples and close-to-production prototypes. |
SMS-Österreich - Sustainability Management System - Austria
Sustainability Management System - Austria
| Category: |
Sustainability Assessment |
| Client: |
ÖIN (Austrian Institute for Sustainability) |
| Duration: |
2005 - 2006 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of a Sustainability Management Systems for Austria and draft of a sustainability guideline. |
StaubGold - StaubGold - Poröse Baumaterialien für Schall- und Wärmeschutz aus feinkörnigen Beton-, Bau- und Abbruchabfällen
| Category: |
Construction, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Engineering, Recycling and Landfill
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| Client: |
Baden-Württemberg Stiftung |
| Duration: |
2015 - 2017 (still active) |
| Objective: |
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Steel university - Storyboard for e-learning module "LCA & Steel" as part of the steeluniversity.org project
| Category: |
Metals
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| Client: |
worldsteel Association (former IISI - The International Iron and Steel Institute) |
| Duration: |
2004 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Preparation of an interactive storyboard for an e-learning module on the topic "Sustainability, LCA & Steel" as part of the steeluniversity.org project. |
| Links: |
- http://www.steeluniversity.orghttp://www.worldsteel.org/
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Sunfire - Herstellung von Kraftstoffen aus CO2 und H2O unter Nutzung regenerativer Energie
| Category: |
Energy, Renewable Ressources and Food, Automotive
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| Client: |
BMBF |
| Duration: |
2012 - 2014 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The aim is to develop an innovative method in which CO2 and H2O is converted in fuels (gasoline, diesel, kerosene, methanol, methane) by means of renewable energy through the use of highly efficient high-temperature steam electrolysis with an energy efficiency of expected 70%. Main contents of the project are (1) the development of the high-temperature steam electrolysis under pressure (SOEC), (2) the study of the reverse water-gas shift reaction (RWGS) to activate the CO2, (3) the construction of a test facility, (4) the validation of the method under real conditions and (5) the ecological balancing of the entire value chain (FZ Jülich). |
TEES - The Energy Efficient Ship
| Category: |
Energy, Transportation
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
1998 - 2000 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The goal is to strengthen the European ship building industry against South-East-Asian competitors. Assessing the value and performance of (high quality) European vessels over the Life-Cycle. Analysing economic and environmental break-even points (high production effort better system quality during use). Determination of the possibilities to reduce energy consumption of vessels. |
Total car LCA - Life Cycle Assessment of a total Vehicle (Mercedes Benz A-Class)
| Category: |
Automotive
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| Client: |
Industry |
| Duration: |
1997 - 1998 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Environmental evaluation of a total vehicle accounting for the total life cycle, creating a complete materials LCA database (cradle-to-gate eco-profiles), analysis of all relevant production processes. |
TRR 141 - TRR 141 - Biological Design and Integrative Structures.Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in Architecture
| Category: |
Construction, Sustainability Assessment
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| Client: |
German Research Foundation |
| Duration: |
2014 - 2018 (still active) |
| Objective: |
The research programme focuses on design andconstruction principles in biology and on their transferto architecture and building construction. The key questions of the research programme are: How can the morphology of hierarchically organized, multifunctional and adaptive biological structures be modeled and simulated? How can computational fabrication methods be used to transfer the design and construction principles of nature to the macro-scale of building construction? Under what conditions do the abstraction and transfer of biological structures lead to amore sustainable technology that 'inherits' not only the functional but also the ecologicallybenefi cial properties of natural role models? |
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UBA-Emissionsfaktoren - Methodenaktualisierung für die Emissionsberechnung 2003 - Teilvorhaben 05
Methodology Update for the Emission Calculation 2003 - part 05
| Category: |
Energy, Transportation
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| Client: |
UBA (German Federal Environment Agency) |
| Duration: |
2006 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Goal of the project is the evaluation, the development of a method and - usage for the continuation of emission factors. It is divided into 3 parts:Part 1 - Evaluation of prognostic emission factors for combustion plantsPart 2 - Methane emissions from coal miningPart 3 - Solvents and other product applications, N2O-applications |
UNEP-SETAC Land Use Method - Operational Characterization Factors for Land use Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Life-Cycle Impact Assessment - Compatible with the Framework of the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
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Land Use and Biodiversity
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| Client: |
UNEP Setac Life Cycle Initative |
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2008 - 2010 (completed) |
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Development of a harmonized methodology do describe land use impacts within LCA for all sectors and all regions of the world. Compilation of a handbook describing the general concept of Land Use Impact Assessment and the individual approaches to address different aspects. Provision of operational characterization factors for Land Use Impact Assessment. |
UNEP-SETAC Social LCA - Development of Guidelines for the Integration of Social Aspects into LCA
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Method |
| Client: |
UNEP Setac Life Cycle Initative |
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2004 - 2010 (still active) |
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Development of a Guideline for Social Life Cycle Assessment containing a framework and best-practices for assessing the social and socio-economic impact of products in life cycles. Additional development of exemplary methodological sheets for the assessment of different subcategories of impact through indicators. |
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- http://lcinitiative.unep.fr/default.asp?site=lcinit&page_id=A8992620-AAAD-4B81-9BAC-A72AEA281CB9
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Verbundwerkstoffe 1 - Verbundprojekt: Entwicklung eines praxisnahen Instrumentariums für die technische, wirtschaftliche, umweltliche Beurteilung neuer Materialien am Beispiel Verbundwerkstoffe - Teilvorhaben Datenstrukturierung und Software
Joint Research Project: Development of a practical Instrument for the technical, economic and environmental Evaluation of New Materials considering as example Composite Materials - Data structuring and software development
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Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
1994 - 1996 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of a practical instrument for the technical, economic and environmental evaluation of new materials considering as example composite materials - data structuring and software development. |
Verbundwerkstoffe 2 - Verbundprojekt: Entwicklung eines praxisnahen Instrumentariums für die technische, wirtschaftliche, umweltliche Beurteilung neuer Materialien am Beispiel Verbundwerkstoffe - Teilvorhaben Sachbilanz, Bewertung
Joint Research Project: Development of a practical Instrument for the technical, economic and environmental Evaluation of New Materials considering as example Composite Materials - Life Cycle Inventory and Evaluation
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Plastics and Composites
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| Client: |
BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| Duration: |
1994 - 1996 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Development of a practical Instrument for the technical, economic and environmental evaluation of new materials considering as example composite materials - Life Cycle Inventory and evaluation. |
Waste2Go - Development and verification of an innovative full life sustainable approach to the valorisation of municipal solid waste into industrial feedstock
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Recycling and Landfill
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2012 - 2015 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Over 220 million tons of residual waste are being produced in the European Union (EU27) each year. Each inhabitant of the EU27 contributes to this amount with about 1.2 kg of waste per day. As municipal solid waste (MSW) consists of a large variety of different materials and substances, and in each country one can find different country-specific conditions, MSW is nowadays either burned, biologically treated or disposed of in landfill sites. Within the project Waste2Go funded by the EU in the context of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) we try to increase the garbages value by exposing it to a cascaded process, which ends with the production of higher-value chemicals. The first step is a thermo-mechanical process. With the help of a rotoclave the MSW is exposed to a defined procedure characterized by a specific temperature, pressure and retention time. This step guarantees the hygienic sanitation of the waste and enables the organic fraction for further enzymatic degradation in the next process step.The enzyme cocktail needed for the complex enzymatic degradation process is especially designed for the heterogeneous residual waste. It should combine a fast degradation rate of the organic matter with high yields of desired substances. During the project this combination of different enzymes is produced in an industrial scale production facility, which has to be designed therefor. Finding the optimal process conditions and the most advanced techniques for the degradation process will enable the consortium to achieve a maximum yield of target substances. Based on the use of supercritical water, new separation and purification methods for these target substances will be developed in the third step. These new methods allow the separation of different monomers and oligomers of organic macromolecules. High-value chemicals are produced from these monomers and oligomers received from the thermally processed MSW. During the fourth step it will be possible to characterize the variety and quality of the chemicals and to elaborate their different usage options. |
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WHEYLAYER - WHEYLAYER - Ökobilanzieller Vergleich von Lebensmittel-Verpackungsfolien
WHEYLAYER - LCA based comparison of food packaging films
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Plastics and Composites, Renewable Ressources and Food
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| Client: |
Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, MES-Migros Engineering Solutions |
| Duration: |
2014 (completed) |
| Objective: |
MIGROS internal screening, if the wheylayer film based on the partly waste and renewable ressource whey protein has ecological advantages in comparison to the convential, i.e. based on fossil ressources, film and therefor is a reason for MIGROS to pursue this objective and further development to change the production route and use the whey based layer |
ZeroWIN - Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks
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Electronics, Energy, Construction Materials and Buildings
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| Client: |
EC (European Commission) |
| Duration: |
2009 - 2014 (completed) |
| Objective: |
The ZeroWIN-project will examine and develop new and innovative approaches and effective strategies for the prevention of waste in industries based on industrial symbiosis. Industrial Symbiosis is concerned with regional collaboration of companies from traditionally separated sectors which exchange by-products, energy, water and materials in such way, that the waste from one industry becomes raw material for another.Goal:To find new and innovative approaches and effective strategies for the prevention of waste in industries based on industrial symbiosis 1. The development of innovative technologies, waste-prevention methodologies, strategies and system tools (e.g. eco-design, local industrial clusters, and resource exchange) exportable into other European and worldwide contexts shall represent the main focus of this action. 2. The goal is to develop a structured and innovative production model for resource-use optimisation and waste prevention, also taking residues as secondary raw materials, and test it in real cases of sustainable industrial networks.Results should translate the vision of a sustainable development into elements of a sustainable entrepreneurship, focusing at enhancing business opportunities according to a "towards zero waste" approach.Expected Results: * a decrease of at least 30% of greenhouse gases emissions, * at least 70% of overall re-use and recycling of waste, * a reduction of at least 75% of fresh water utilisation. |
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ZUB-DGNB-LCA - Ökobilanz des ZUB Gebäudes für eine DGNB Pilot-Zertifizierung
Life Cycle Assessment of the ZUB Building (Kassel, Germany) for the purpose of a DGNB certification
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Construction
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| Client: |
TU München (Technical University of Munich) |
| Duration: |
2008 (completed) |
| Objective: |
Life Cycle Assessment in line with requirements of the German Sustainable Building Council (GeSBC = Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen, DGNB) to support the pilot-audit - to obtain a sustainability certificate - of the office building of the Zentrum für Umweltbewusstes Bauen e.V. in Kassel. |
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- http://www.dgnb.de/de/zertifizierung/objekte/detail.php?we_objectID=1399
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