The environmental impact associated with the various scale dimensions (i.e., laboratory, pilot plant, and industrial) is influenced by substantial changes correlated with many process parameters. Performing an industrial eco-design study starting from laboratory data is complex, and the risk of outlining an environmental profile that does not correspond to the real future industrial system is quite high. Usually, this is due to the scarcity of information about the industrial scale of the analysed system and to the difficulty of predicting the behaviour and evolution of the process during the scale-up. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the main advantages and drawbacks of the application of LCA to support the industrial scale-up in the chemical sector. The matters addressed in the previous chapter will also be emphasised and integrated with other methodological issues. Moreover, an LCA methodological framework to deal with a systematic scale-up procedure overarching all the LCA phases is proposed.

Maranghi, S., Parisi, M.L., Basosi, R., Sinicropi, A. (2020). LCA as a Support Tool for the Evaluation of Industrial Scale-Up. In Simone Maranghi Carlo Brondi (a cura di), Life Cycle Assessment in the Chemical Product Chain (pp. 125-143). Cham : Springer International Publishing [10.1007/978-3-030-34424-5_6].

LCA as a Support Tool for the Evaluation of Industrial Scale-Up

Simone Maranghi;Maria Laura Parisi;Riccardo Basosi;Adalgisa Sinicropi
2020-01-01

Abstract

The environmental impact associated with the various scale dimensions (i.e., laboratory, pilot plant, and industrial) is influenced by substantial changes correlated with many process parameters. Performing an industrial eco-design study starting from laboratory data is complex, and the risk of outlining an environmental profile that does not correspond to the real future industrial system is quite high. Usually, this is due to the scarcity of information about the industrial scale of the analysed system and to the difficulty of predicting the behaviour and evolution of the process during the scale-up. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the main advantages and drawbacks of the application of LCA to support the industrial scale-up in the chemical sector. The matters addressed in the previous chapter will also be emphasised and integrated with other methodological issues. Moreover, an LCA methodological framework to deal with a systematic scale-up procedure overarching all the LCA phases is proposed.
2020
978-3-030-34424-5
Maranghi, S., Parisi, M.L., Basosi, R., Sinicropi, A. (2020). LCA as a Support Tool for the Evaluation of Industrial Scale-Up. In Simone Maranghi Carlo Brondi (a cura di), Life Cycle Assessment in the Chemical Product Chain (pp. 125-143). Cham : Springer International Publishing [10.1007/978-3-030-34424-5_6].
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