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BIOPROCESS DIGITAL PROFESSIONAL COURSES
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Life Cycle Assessment of bioprocesses and bioproducts

LCA methodology, environmental impacts, material and energy inventories, impacts indicators, impacts allocation, comparative LCA, impacts reduction strategies

ONLINE COURSE: On-demand

COURSE FEE: 300 € per session  

COURSE ORGANIZATION

Course organized in 7 sessions

Scheduling: suggested one session per week

Effort: 4 - 8 hours per session

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Life Cycle Assessment course teaches the methodology of Life Cycle Assessment for the environmental evaluation of process and products. It covers life-cycle materials and energy inventories, evaluation and allocation of impacts indicators, comparative LCA assessment, indicators uncertainty analysis, and impacts reduction strategies.

LCA CASE STUDY

The guiding thread of the course is a Life Cycle Assessment of the bioethanol fuel from sugar beets. The project objective is to evaluate the ethanol indicators for eight impacts related to resources consumption, air and water emissions. The bioethanol life cycle involves the steps of farming, industrial transformation, transports and ethanol combustion

INSTRUCTORS​

  • ​ Latifa CHEBIL, Prof. ENSAIA

  • Jean-Marc ENGASSER, BioProcess Digital

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ​​

  • The methodology of Life Cycle Assessment for the environmental evaluation of processes and products

  • What are the LCA environmental impacts related to resources consumption and air and water emissions?

  • Evaluate the life-cycle material and energy inventories 

  • Determine the life-cycle environmental impacts indicators

  • Allocate impacts indicators between products and by-products

  • Compare the environmental impacts of products of same functionalities

  • Assess the uncertainties of the impacts indicators calculations

  • Develop strategies to reduce the environmental impacts of bioprocesses

DIGITAL LEARNING​

  • Learning platform with course resources

  • Live or recorded slideshow videos

  • LCA study on spreadsheet templates with self-corrections and guides

  • Online quizzes

  • Online collective or one-to-one tutoring

COURSE PROGRAM

SESSION 1: LCA SCOPE, METHODOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

Life Cycle Assessment obective and methodology. Environmental impacts related to resources and emissions

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SESSION 2: MATERIAL INVENTORY

Case study project: LCA of bioethanol fuel from sugar beets. Material inventory of bioethanol life cycle

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SESSION 3: ENERGY INVENTORY

Energy inventory of bioethanol life cycle

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SESSION 4: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS INDICATORS

Evaluation of eight environmental impacts indicators for the bioethanol life cycle

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SESSION 5: IMPACTS ALLOCATION AND COMPARATIVE LCA

Impacts indicators allocation between bioethanol and byproducts. Comparative bioethanol and gasoline LCA

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SESSION 6: SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF IMPACTS INDICATORS

Evaluation and analysis of impacts indicators uncertainties by the uncertainty propagation method

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SESSION 7: IMPACTS INDICATORS REDUCTION STRATEGIES

Reduction of the environmental impacts indicators by water and energy integration

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