Submissions:LCA Pattern - Revision history

YingjieHu at 06:13, 8 July 2015

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YingjieHu at 06:12, 8 July 2015

2015-07-08T06:12:59Z

YingjieHu at 06:12, 8 July 2015

2015-07-08T06:12:23Z

YingjieHu: Imported from OWL file.

2015-07-08T06:01:16Z

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|Intent=Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies the environmental impact of products taking into account their entire life-span and production chain. This ontology design pattern specifies key aspects of LCA/LCI data models, namely the notions of flows, activities, agents, and products, as well as their properties.
|CompetencyQuestion=The pattern is intended to foster interoperability between existing data models, specifications, and software, and thereby act as a joint building block for the rapidly increasing interest in semantics within the broader LCA community. The pattern should be able to answer competency questions such as whether a certain flow is a reference product or about the location of an activity.
|Scenario=The proposed ontology design pattern 1 is meant to form a common core for the semantic description of key elements of life cycle inventories.
A solar panel example: assessing the impacts of operating a solar array goes beyond the pure manufacturing and assembly of the photovoltaic modules. It also includes transportation emissions, installation emissions, operation emissions, and the final disposal emissions. Such assessment first requires the gathering of all relevant data from different sources into a so-called Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), followed by the actual assessment of the environmental impacts based on the gathered data, used models, and the literature. Understanding the complex impact of products is crucial for arriving at, and maintaining, a sustainable world where human needs are met without causing harm to the environment or impacting the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
|Consequences=This ontology design pattern does neither cover the process of carrying out life cycle assessments, e.g., how data is gathered or how so-called system boundaries are defined, nor does it provide the variety of spatial, temporal, and thematic attributes used to scope inventory items, e.g., to express the fact that coal extraction may have varying impacts depending on the geographic region and used technology.
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In a nutshell, estimating the environmental impact of a certain product requires an understanding of all impacts accumulated during the creation, lifetime, and decommissioning of said product. With respect to the solar panel example introduced in our related paper, the creation of the solar arrays requires multiple activities such as the transportation of resources, the generation of electric power by a coal power plant necessary to manufacture certain parts of the panels, or the disposal of polluted sludge accumulated during the production. In other words, the Eco-efficiency of solar panels depends on the activities involved in all stages of their life-cycle.

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