Structure and content for the web platform

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• Structure and content for the web platform
• Karolina Flemström
• Markus Erlandsson
• IMI, 2003-10-23
• DANTES project

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DANTES platforms

• DANTES info
• Detailed information about different tools
• Example of use of different tools/methods
• Presentation of strategies for sustainable
  development
• Integration platform
• Information about the relation between different
  tools
• Relation between a question/problem, and tools
  used when solving the problem
• Defines the scope and boundaries of different
  tools

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Different important concepts

• Method and structure includes basic theoretical
  breakdown. Task 7
• Prototype includes implementation of a part the
  methods and structures. To build the web
  platform. Task 5
• Release different versions of DANTESinfo are
  released based on the contents and structure of
  the prototype

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Context for the integration platform
Subject Owner of the problem
EPD
Reporting communication
Policy Area of interest
SDS
Aspects Environmental concern
Indicators Span an explicitly selected part of
the policy
ERA
LCC
LCA
Analysis tools
General Information model
CAD/ PDM
Env. data
Basic data
Information handling processes of basic data
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Functionality of the integration platform

• Can be used for integration of tools using
  logical and work path structures
• Demonstrate how a problem can be broken down into
  a logical structure or sequence of comprehensible
  tasks.
• Demonstrates how the DANTES partners break down
  problems into the described structures
• Demonstrate different alternative ways of working
• Provides information on individual tools
• Demonstrate connection between env. aspect and
  tool

Logical structure
Process structure
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Contents for the integration platform

• Logical structure of used tools/methods
• Process structure of used tools/methods
• Information which defines the tools
• Description
• Input
• Output
• Environmental aspects

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Logical structure

• Do often look very similar for different users.
• Break down a task into a number of conditions
  that have to be fullfilled in order to complete
  the task.

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Process structure

• The process structure describe the actual way of
  working.
• The ordering of the activities is important.
• The process structure differ between different
  users/companies.

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Logical structure - LCA
Information handling tools
Structured in ISO 14040
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Process structure - LCA
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Logical structure - ERA
Information handling tools
The framework is set out in Commission Regulation
(EC) 1488/94 and implemented in the detailed
Technical Guidance Documents on Risk Assessment
for New and Existing Substances. PEC Predicted
Environmental ConcentrationPNEC Predicted No
Effect Concentration
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Process structure - ERA
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Logical structure - LCC
Information handling tools
There is no standard.
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Process structure - LCC
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Relevant information which defines the tools

• LCA
• Description Inventory the aspects from the
  different phases of a products life cycle and
  perform an assessment of the environmental
  impacts
• Input Data (input/output) from organisations and
  sites
• Output Aggregated environmental impact, Weighted
  index of environmental impact, identified hot
  spots at production site
• Aspect Transporation, Energy use, Greenhouse gas
  emissions, Consumption of raw materials etc.
• LCC
• Description calculate the economic costs that
  arise during the life cycle of a product or
  service, i.e. from extraction of raw material,
  production, investments, usage, maintenance and
  end-of-life.
• Input Estimated cost, lifetime cost and
  performance,
• Output Total lifetime cost
• Aspect Eco-efficiency of products/ production
  sites

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• ERA
• Description An environmental risk assessment
  (ERA) is a process of identifying and evaluating
  the adverse effects on the environment caused by
  a chemical substance.
• Input Exposure data, exposure levels,
  distribution data, dose/response data
• Output Information about risk for substances
• Aspect Substances environmental impact,
  especially impact on humans and animals.

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Environmental aspects

• List of identified environmental aspect
• To connect these aspects with usable tools,
  identified earlier in DANTES
• Show the relation question/problem, aspect and
  tool in the Integration platform

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Results - List of identified relevant aspects

• Energy use
• Energy as losses during usage phase or as
  decreased energy consumptions for the customers
• Emission to water and air (e.g. CO2, NOx, SOx)
• Environmental impacts from the products and
  services, impact from the products ecotoxicity
  especially
• Transportation
• Products and materials toxic properites (e.g.
  brominated flame retardant in plastics)
• Waste disposal and hazardous waste
• Raw material wood

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• Noise emissions
• Electromagnetic fields
• Greenhouse gas emissions and other air emissions
• Access to fresh water
• Use of fossil fuels
• Spill prevention
• Use of batteries for energy storage
• Glycol emission
• Oil leakage
• Land use

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Aspects, indicators and tools

• Example 1
• Aspect Transportation
• Indicator(s)
• Means of transport used e.g. truck, train, ship
  ?use of transports with high or low environmental
  impact regarding fuel consumption, material used
  etc.
• Energy consumption by the transport ?Greenhouse
  gas emission and air pollutant emissions
• Emissions of carbon dioxide ? Global warming
  contribution

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• Tools
• Transport LCI data from SPINE_at_CPM (inputs and
  outputs) that can be used in an LCA tool e.g.
  Ecolab, LCAlight, LCAiT etc
• Transport calculation tools e.g. NTMCalc,
  Emission calculation, Miljökalkyl, SAS Emission
  calculation etc.
• Interviews, Checklist, Legislation

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• Example 2
• Aspect Emission to water
• Indicator(s)
• Amount of emission to water from the production
  site
• Emitted substances toxic properties toxicity in
  water
• Environmental impact of the emitted substance
• Tool(s)
• LCA
• OMNIITOX
• ERA
• TOXNET, IRIS, ECETOX
• Legislation

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• A demonstration of the integration tool
• Next step How to proceed?
• Information in the platform work path
• Discussion
• ...

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The importance of identifying and defining
environmental aspects
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Question
Answer in its context
Info
Env. aspects
The context
Questions and requirements
Answer

• Information require a context
• The aspect gives the context and connects the
  information with the user.

• The aspect tells us why and for what we need the
  tools

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Logical structure - EMS
Structured in ISO 14001, guidance in ISO 14004
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Process structure - EMS
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Context for the integration platform
Subject Owner of the problem
EPD
Reporting communication
Policy Area of interest
SDS
Aspects Environmental concern
Indicators Span an explicitly selected part of
the policy
ERA
LCC
LCA
Analysis tools
General Information model
CAD/ PDM
Env. data
Basic data
Information handling processes of basic data