• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.722-727
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• 2007

Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) is a tool that quantifies the inputs and outputs, md evaluates the potential environmental impacts during the entire life cycle of a product, material and/or service. Inputs and outputs encompass the consumption of natural resources and emission of pollutants to the environment. One of the deficiencies of the conventional LCA methodology is that it does not consider time explicitly. In addition, there are problems associated with the temporal boundary in the normalization step of LCA. The objective of this study is to propose a new life cycle assessment method that considers time in LCA as called 'Time Load LCA'. Basically Time Load LCA is a method that divides environmental load in each life cycle stage by time duration in each life cycle stage. Time consideration in the proposed method indicated that the new LCA method not only renders new perspective on the environmental impacts of a product system but also rectifies inconsistency in temporal dimension of the normalization step. Basic premise of the time load LCA method is that same amount of load over a shorter time period would affect more seriously on the environment than over a longer time period. therefore, load per time is necessary for the assessment of an impact of the inventory parameters on the environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1656-1660
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• 2010

저수지와 양수장은 우리나라에서 용수공급면적기준으로 전체 공급량의 78%를 차지하는 중요한 용수 공급시설이다. 본 연구의 목적은 저수지와 양수장의 환경영향을 LCA기법을 이용해 비교 분석함으로써 두 시설들의 환경영향을 정량적으로 평가하는데 있다. 연구대상 수리시설로서 경기도 안성에 위치한 이동저수지와 은산양수장을 선정하여 각각에 대하여 농업수리시설의 전과정평가를 실시하였다. 평가를 위하여 네덜란드 Pre사가 개발한 소프트웨어 Simapro 7.1를 이용하였다. 두 시설에 대한 원료물질 취득 단계부터 건설, 운영, 유지관리 및 폐기단계까지 전과정의 환경영향을 분석한 결과, 두 종류의 시설 설치에 따른 토지이용, 상 하류의 생태적 영향 등이 고려되지 않았지만 저수지에 의한 농업용수 공급이 양수장에 의한 용수 공급보다 환경친화적이라고 볼 수 있다. 저수지의 경우 건설단계의 환경영향이 크고, 양수장의 경우, 운영단계에 환경영향이 큰 것으로 분석되었다. 단계별로 환경영향은 저수지는 건설단계에 건설재료 예를 들어 레미콘, 시멘트 등이 환경부하를 크게 발생시키기 때문이고, 양수장은 이용 단계에서 용수공급을 위한 전력사용에서 기인하는데, 이는 전력생산시 화석연료와 같은 자원소비가 많기 때문이다. 이번 연구는 토목시설물중 농업 용수 공급시설의 전과정에서 환경영향을 종합적으로 평가하는데 LCA가 활용되었다는 점에서 의의가 있으며, 향후 하드웨어적인 시설뿐만 아니라 농업용수 공급에 따른 전과정평가를 수행하고, 농업용수 LCI D/B 구축에 기초자료를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.31 no.2D
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• pp.255-266
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• 2011

In order to evaluate the environmental load occurring from the whole life cycle of a facility, LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) adopted by ISO is not only applied as an individual product but rather a complicated system involving buildings and/or infrastructure in a wide range of scope. The introducing of LCA to a wastewater reuse facility will assist to understand not only the treatment of water contaminants but also the overall system related to the interaction of involved, potential issues. This research implemented LCA for the establishment of the wastewater reuse facility. The results show that a fresh water aquatic Eco-toxicological Impact (88.3%) is the largest environment concern and the maintenance & operation phase has the most impact on the environment utilizing life cycle for the wastewater reuse facility. The civil works and chemical treatments in the maintenance & operation phase led to the biggest environmental impact. The results of this research can provide pertinent data of investigating opportunities for environmental improvement not limited to public officers regulating environmental policies, and could be used to make decisions for an environmentally sound and sustainable design in the initial phase of construction.

• Clean Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.339-348
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• 2014

Life cycle assessment (LCA) has become an important tool used to enhance the environmental performance of process systems and products. LCA is an essential element in design for environment (DfE) because LCA can be utilized to evaluate and analyze environmental impacts incurred in the life cycle and supply chain. This review presents methodologies that can be used to integrate LCA into DfE activities and reduce environmental impacts from process systems and products; and introduces case studies for water supply systems and cellular phones. LCA is first used to quantify environmental impacts and identify the principal contributor to high impacts. In the next step, environmental impacts from principal contributors can be reduced by using mathematical optimization tools as an engineering and technological approach and by utilizing the cooperation of professionals from a diverse range of fields. Because the methodologies and case studies can be applied and extended to other fields, this review paper can contribute to helping prevent environmental pollution and enhance the sustainability of our society.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.650-660
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• 2017

In this study, simplified LCA (life cycle assessment) tool was developed to increase accessibility and availability on LCA timber construction. The result of simplified LCA was compared with commercial program on LCA (Simapro.7) to verify its availability. As a result of evaluating environmental impacts with the Life Cycle Inventory of all processes, gap between LCA and simplified LCA tools of timber construction was about 1%. Therefore, the simplified LCA tool could analyse greenhouse gas emissions of timber construction and to expand number of data set through improved conveniency of users for developing database of timber construction in Korea. The reduction effects of greenhouse gas emissions of timber construction was about 53% of total emission offset up to construction phase. The results of this study would support decision making process to expand to timber construction policy to showcase environmental friendliness of timber construction. It was expected to contribute to response to the New climate regime in forestry.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.201-206
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• 2006

As the seriousness of the global environment is gaining increasing our attention recently, studies on application of LCA(Life Cycle Assesment) to ship are being carried dynamically in various industry fields. This study examined general outline about local and international application cf LCA to ship. First of all, international background for the appearance of LCA and its general meaning are introduced. The state-of-the-art for its application to ship will be also explained. Finally, domestic study methodology for application of LCA to ship were suggested.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.17-26
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• 2002

As it is not allowed to landfill sludge from 2001 by the act of waste management, new systems of treating sludge are necessary. Life Cycle Assessment, LCA, is a method for evaluating systems in the aspect of environment and also can apply to decision making tools for policy making. The objective of this study is to assess 3 alternatives of landfill: incineration, composting, solidification by applying LCA. This study is done with operation data from incinerator in Kuri, composting facility in Nanjido, solidification facility in Kimpo and electricity and transport data of Korea in 1998 are used. The results of the LCA is that the composting system is most environmental-friendly and the solidification system is least environmental-friendly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.519-522
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• 2006

This study aims to provide useful information when making a decision for the environmental assessment of infrastructure, based on Life Cycle Assessment(LCA). It estimates environmental load on environmental pollutants that are possible to occur by locations and by types of emergency spillway for Korean multipurpose dam, which is selected as a study case. For this purpose, this study examines the theories of LCA and calculates environmental load on environmental pollutants that generate during life cycle, to apply the suggested infrastructure to the case study of emergency spillway at the multipurpose dam. It also evaluates environmental load of emergency spillway by the estimated result, and draws the optimum alternative that is environmental friendly.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.59-79
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• 2005

recently, world is progressing large quantity consumption with continuous Innovation and economic growth and pollution is accelerated at these process. Increase of industry activity and service that is point of corporation activity is discharging environmental pollutants at whole process to manufacture of end product and exhaust process from acquisition of raw material for accompanied product production hereupon. At the same time, being promoting resources consumption by that use much raw material, As a result, is becoming obstacle factors in sustainable development. So, corporation's responsibility for environmental protection is emphasized. Corporation which must prepare in green round or environmental problems should consider environmental effects that is happened over whole life of products that include waste treatment after raw material acquisition and use as well as selling end product simply. A Life Cycle Assessment techniques is normalized and standardized in International Standard Organization for technical committee 207(TC 207) world widely, and effort to apply in corporation's activity because mastering LCA techniques in domestic several corporations is undergone actively. Coming into effect of Kyoto's Protocol and International Organization for Standard 14000 series revision are presenting new survival principle in competition between country or corporation. LCA technique may become very useful means to corporation which wish to attempt environment management in real condition that awareness for environment is important. Also, An LCA to each product is going to cause big effects in corporation's whole image as well as competitive power raising for single product. Therefore, this research wishes to examine some instances for the future competitive product development at the estimation of environmental friendliness using LCA techniques and more theoretical considerations of the LCA techniques that can dominate corporation's fate.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.309-318
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• 2023

Recently, each country has been moving to introduce an LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The LCA is a mean of measuring and evaluating greenhouse gas emissions generated over the entire life cycle of a vehicle. Reliable data for each electric vehicle component is needed to increase the reliability of the LCA results. To this end, studies on life cycle evaluation models using blockchain technology have been conducted. However, in the existing model, key product information is exposed to other participants. And each time parts data information is updated, it must be recorded in the blockchain ledger in the form of a transaction, which is inefficient. In this paper, we proposed a DID(Decentralized Identity)-based data collection model for LCA to collect vehicle component data and verify its validity effectively. The proposed model increases the reliability of the LCA by ensuring the validity and integrity of the collected data and verifying the source of the data. The proposed model guarantees the validity and integrity of collected data. As only user authentication information is shared on the blockchain ledger, the model prevents indiscriminate exposure of data and efficiently verifies and updates the source of data.