DyLiC - Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment

Project Manager

Prof. Dr. Mario Schmidt

Project Duration

01.10.2008 - 30.09.2011

External Source

FHproFund - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Project Description

The method of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) plays a central role for environmental assessment of products, processes and procedures especially since the ISO standardization in 1997/2006. It is one of the most successful analyzing instruments in a transdisciplinary area of application. Methodically composition of modular data of single industry processes to a total system has become widely used to describe the object of investigation with its material and energy amount. In doing so linear limitational technology models are assumed. The total system is mostly conducted and calculated with the aid of linear activity analysis. This approach has several parallels to cost and performance accounting in economic theory or production theory. But the LCA approach does not further take on experiences and developments of the last decades in this field. Since LCA gives assistance for decision making in technical economic context the implications and limitations of the applied method are of importance, i.e. for investment decisions or environmental policy. For this method development that relies to methods of cost and performance accounting or production theory is pursued.

Project Members

Dipl.-Phys. Hendrik Lambrecht, Dipl.-Ing. Heidi Hottenroth

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