ME 599 Life Cycle Assessment: Syllabus and Lectures Winter Quarter 2008 ME599 LCA Class Homepage Data Sources and Impact Equivalency Factors UWME Design for Environment Homepage   Discussion Topics, Assignments, and Lecture Notes Resources Week 1 Introduction (lecture in pdf) Goal and scope definition (lecture in pdf) Heijungs & Suh chapter 1 ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006 Cooper, J.S. “Specifying Functional Units and Reference Flows for Comparable Alternatives,” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 8, 337-349 (2003) download here Sheehan, et al. (1998) Life Cycle Inventory of Biodiesel and Petroleum Diesel for Use in an Urban Bus. Prepared for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL/SR-580-24089.  Available at www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy98/24089.pdf Weeks 2-3 The basic model for inventory analysis (lecture in pdf) **Project proposal due (1/14 now 1/16) **Goal and scope report due (1/25) Heijungs & Suh chapter 2 Boustead, I. (1999) Eco-Profiles of Plastics and Related Intermediates. Prepared for the European Centre for Plastics in the Environment of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME).  Week 4 Inventory data sources (lecture in pdf updated Feb 6) EcoInvent Laboratory (1/30 - 2/4) LCA Database Projects Website Jiménez-González, C., S. Kim, M.R. Overcash (2000) “Methodology for Developing Gate-to-Gate Life Cycle Inventory Information,” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 5(3) 153-159. Weeks 5-6 The refined model for inventory analysis (lecture in pdf updated Feb 11)   Heijungs & Suh chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7 Field, F., R. Kirchain, J. Clark (2001) “Life-Cycle Assessment and Temporal Distributions of Emissions: Developing a Fleet-Based Analysis,” Journal of Industrial Ecology 4 (2) 71-91.          Week 7 • Feb 18 President's day- no class Impact Assessment (lecture in pdf updated Feb 13) and an impact assessment example (in pdf updated Feb 13) **Inventory analysis due (2/20) Heijungs & Suh chapter 8 Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts (TRACI) website Week 8 Interpretation (lecture in pdf updated Feb 27) **Impact assessment due (2/27) Heijungs, R., R. Kleijn (2001) “Numerical approaches towards life cycle interpretation: five examples,” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 6(3) Available at http://www.leidenuniv.nl/cml/ssp/publications/wp2000-001.pdf Week 9 LCA Applications, Tools, a Case Study, and Status (lecture in pdf) SETAC North America Streamlined LCA Workgroup (1999) Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment: A Final Report, Prepared for the Society of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists, Available at http://www.setac.org/files/lca.pdf Week 10 **Oral reports given in class **Final report due (3/12)     For more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu