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Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an analytical tool used to quantify the overall environmental impacts associated with products, processes or human activities from cradle to grave. The LCA is important to determine the impact of wastewater treatment and the technologies used on human health and the en...

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Main Authors: Ali Hussein, Sabeen, Noor, Zainura Zainon, Ngadi, Norzita, Almuraisy, Saqer, Ademola, Bolanle Raheem
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Published: Elsevier 2018
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TP Chemical technology
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/84957/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.053
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spelling my.utm.849572020-02-29T13:15:41Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/84957/ Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review Ali Hussein, Sabeen Noor, Zainura Zainon Ngadi, Norzita Almuraisy, Saqer Ademola, Bolanle Raheem TP Chemical technology Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an analytical tool used to quantify the overall environmental impacts associated with products, processes or human activities from cradle to grave. The LCA is important to determine the impact of wastewater treatment and the technologies used on human health and the environment. It performs well to find the best solutions to improve the sustainability. Therefore, it is important to review how previous studies on wastewater treatment have applied LCA. This paper presents a wide-ranging review of papers published from 1990 to 2016 that have used a range of LCA to cover the objectives, boundaries, functional units (FUs) and life cycle impact assessment(LCIA) of wastewater treatment. The analysis of the reviewed papers revealed that there are some differences in term of the FUs, system boundaries, and LCIA methods. These differences normally contribute to obtaining a few non-prosaic results. Moreover, the FUs adopted in some reviewed studies were not able to achieve the purpose of providing a reference to ensure compatibility of the results. Therefore, it is highly recommended that more attention is paid to choosing the FU in future studies. Thus, to ensure the quality and comparability of LCAs, it is very important to develop the LCA guidelines and standards and the LCIA impact categories. Elsevier 2018-07 Article PeerReviewed Ali Hussein, Sabeen and Noor, Zainura Zainon and Ngadi, Norzita and Almuraisy, Saqer and Ademola, Bolanle Raheem (2018) Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 190 . pp. 221-233. ISSN 0959-6526 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.053
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TP Chemical technology
spellingShingle TP Chemical technology
Ali Hussein, Sabeen
Noor, Zainura Zainon
Ngadi, Norzita
Almuraisy, Saqer
Ademola, Bolanle Raheem
Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review
description Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an analytical tool used to quantify the overall environmental impacts associated with products, processes or human activities from cradle to grave. The LCA is important to determine the impact of wastewater treatment and the technologies used on human health and the environment. It performs well to find the best solutions to improve the sustainability. Therefore, it is important to review how previous studies on wastewater treatment have applied LCA. This paper presents a wide-ranging review of papers published from 1990 to 2016 that have used a range of LCA to cover the objectives, boundaries, functional units (FUs) and life cycle impact assessment(LCIA) of wastewater treatment. The analysis of the reviewed papers revealed that there are some differences in term of the FUs, system boundaries, and LCIA methods. These differences normally contribute to obtaining a few non-prosaic results. Moreover, the FUs adopted in some reviewed studies were not able to achieve the purpose of providing a reference to ensure compatibility of the results. Therefore, it is highly recommended that more attention is paid to choosing the FU in future studies. Thus, to ensure the quality and comparability of LCAs, it is very important to develop the LCA guidelines and standards and the LCIA impact categories.
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author Ali Hussein, Sabeen
Noor, Zainura Zainon
Ngadi, Norzita
Almuraisy, Saqer
Ademola, Bolanle Raheem
author_facet Ali Hussein, Sabeen
Noor, Zainura Zainon
Ngadi, Norzita
Almuraisy, Saqer
Ademola, Bolanle Raheem
author_sort Ali Hussein, Sabeen
title Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review
title_short Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review
title_full Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review
title_fullStr Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review
title_full_unstemmed Quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: A review
title_sort quantification of environmental impacts of domestic wastewater treatment using life cycle assessment: a review
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/84957/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.053
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