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SET-LCA: Streamlined Ecodesign
Tools based on Life Cycle Assessment incorporating uncertainty Reference: CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-030570 Principal Investigator
(PI): Fausto
Freire Co-PI:
Carla Rodrigues Proponent
Institution: CIE-ADAI Projects
Partners: INESCC (Portugal), Embrapa
Agroindústria (Brasil) Funding
Entity: FEDER/FCT | CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-030570 Funding: 239 705 € Abstract Ecodesign promotes optimization of the environmental
performance of products (while maintaining their functional qualities) and
promotes new business opportunities for manufacturers and greener
consumption, balancing environmental and economic needs through an efficient
design of products. The SET-LCA project
proposes a novel framework to support ecodesign by
integrating streamlined life-cycle (LC)
environmental and cost assessment with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
(MCDA). The framework accommodates varying amounts (and quality) of
information and provides estimates and associated uncertainty for
environmental and economic performance using statistical methods, such as
Monte Carlo simulation.
Product-specific ecodesign tools will be
developed based on the framework for selected mass-produced components from
the automotive, packaging and prefabricated construction industries,
addressing novel manufacture strategies incorporating biomaterials and
recycled materials (displacing fossil materials) towards a circular economy. The main objectives of the project are: i) To
develop an integrated (environmental and cost) streamlined LC ecodesign framework to support early-stage decisions; ii)
To implement the framework in tools for various mass-produced components:
automobile, packaging and prefabricated building industries, validating these
tools with real-world applications in Portugal and Brazil; iii) To identify
key drivers of environmental and cost impacts of the selected products, the
most efficient ecodesign strategies, and to provide
recommendations for industry and policy-makers; iv) To implement the tools as
spreadsheet-based software prototypes, which may later be developed into a
commercial products; and v) To disseminate these tools through stakeholders
(industry, R&D, designers, others), promoting more efficient,
eco-friendly and competitive products. This project will advance
methodological frameworks by developing a novel ecodesign
tool that combines a streamlined LC approach incorporating uncertainty with
MCDA that provides insights and recommendations for current industrial design
practice of mass-produced components. The project will also be relevant for
the international scientific community, as the framework developed here can
be adapted to other products/systems. In order to carry out the
SET-LCA project, we gathered a multidisciplinary team composed of researchers
with complementary expertise and solid track records from two Portuguese
Research Units (CIE-ADAI and INESCC), which will collaborate with the Brazilian
Embrapa team. The team has significant experience
in LC modeling incorporating uncertainty of various systems, including
preliminary work on ecodesign of automotive
components (CIE-ADAI), a strong experience in uncertainty analysis, statistically-based models and MCDA (INESCC), as well as
extensive experience in developing and characterizing biomaterials and on LC
approaches for bioproduct development (Embrapa). Research Team CIE-ADAI Fausto Miguel Cereja Seixas Freire Carla Abreu Rodrigues Érica Castanheira Fabiana Bassani Shiva Saadatian Vanessa Tavares INESCC Carlos Henggeler Antunes Luís Miguel Cândido Dias Embrapa
Agroindústria Maria Cléa Brito de Figueirêdo Morsyleide de Freitas Rosa Henriette M. C. Azeredo Hálisson Lucas Ribeiro Jade Muller Carneiro |
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Projeto cofinanciado pela União Europeia.
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