Session: #659 - Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Metrics (TE004)


Friday, November 9, 2007: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM
Room 155 B (Salt Palace Convention Center)
Topical E: Sustainability (TE)
#659 - Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Metrics (TE004)
Papers are desired in the area of life cycle assessment, with a focus on sustainability. In particular, interesting papers will consider which indicators apply to sustainable processes and products. Papers that present metrics for measured life cycle systems, and tie the results to sustainability are strongly desired.
Chair:	Raymond L. Smith
CoChair:	Thomas Theis
8:30 AM	659a	Hierarchical Lca: Overcoming Barriers of Time, Money and Effort Raymond L. Smith
8:55 AM	659b	Enhancing Life Cycle Inventories Via Data Rectification and Reliability Estimation Hangjoon Kim, Bhavik R. Bakshi, Prem K. Goel
9:20 AM	659c	Life Cycle Inventory (Lci) of Four Single Serving Juice Containers - Including A Novel Nanocomposite James Littlefield, Kurt P. Rindfusz
9:45 AM	659d	Assessing Environmental Performance in the Chemical Industry: A Comparative Study with Emerging Tools Xiaoying Zhou, Julie M. Schoenung
10:10 AM	659e	Lca Comparison of the Production of Acrylic Acid from Propane and Propylene Peter A. Holman, Joseph H. Holles, David R. Shonnard
10:35 AM	659f	Life Cycle Assessment Lca of Waste Management Systems - Lca Oriented Solid Waste Management Model - Easewaste Gurbakhash S. Bhander, Thomas H. Christensen, Michael Hauschild, Tapas K. Das

Topical E: Sustainability (TE)