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LCA Methodology
A Methodological Approach for the Economic Assessment of Best Available Techniques **
Demonstrated for a Case Study from the Steel Industry
Frank Schultmann; Rainer Jochum; Otto Rentz
Corresponding author:: Frank Schultmann, French-German Institute for Environmental Research, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Hertzstrasse 16, D-76187 Karlsruhe, Germany, e-mail: frank.schultmann@wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1065/lca2000.11.036 - - - The determination and the assessment of Best Available Techniques (BAT) is one of the key issues in the realisation of the IPPC-Directive. While research has already focused on
environmental benefits and technical practicability of techniques within LCA, little work has been carried out assessing economic feasibility. A methodology for the economic assessment of BAT in the framework of the IPPC-Directive on a plant level has to comprise all costs that accrue by measures to prevent, to reduce, to utilise or to remove emissions into water, air and soil
caused by industrial production processes. The applied cost concept provides a systematic accounting and allocation of decision relevant costs and possibly revenues, that are pertinent to the economic assessment of BAT. The application of the methodology to a case study from the steel industry shows the practical
use of the approach. | | Keywords: Best Available Techniques (BAT); cost allocation; decision relevant costs; economic assessment; electric steelmaking; emissions; investment related costs; IPPC-Directive; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); operating costs; steel industry |
6 LCA (1) 19-28 (2001)
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