EU objectives
- Know and understand a Life Cycle Analysis and place it within the notion of circular economy - Know how to criticize an existing LCA - Know how to set up an LCA and model it
Content of the lessons
The teaching consists of: - Defining and explaining what a life cycle analysis is according to the ISO 14040, ISO 14044 standard (2006 and revisited in 2020) - Analyzing an LCA already carried out, - Modeling an LCA (specific to each pair of students) with the SIMAPRO 7.3 and SIMAPRO 8.1 software.
The course will be punctuated with examples to facilitate understanding and these examples will come from case studies chosen by the students (working in pairs).
Skills to acquire
Carry out a Life Cycle Analysis of any product or system, according to ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 (2006). You will be able to model/quantify the environmental impacts linked to this product or service. You will also be able to make recommendations to manufacturers, decision-makers and development stakeholders, so that negative environmental impacts are reduced or eliminated.
