Environmental life cycle assessment of desalination : the influence of different life cycle impact assessment methods on the characterization, normalization and weighting results

• Main Author: Ho, Yee-Cheng.
• Other Authors: Chang Wei-Chung
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering::Water treatment
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45003
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The main purpose of this work is to examine whether the environmental impacts of reverse osmosis (RO) desalination fluctuates according to different Life Cycle Impact Assessment methods used, and if the aforementioned is valid, then the extent to which such fluctuations occur and the possible impact...