Monday, June 13, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Tutorial

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Presentations

Note: Presentations may start a few minutes before the time listed in the schedule.

Gas Turbines market, especially for the applications in Oil & Gas and Power Generation, is
demanding rising sustainability requirements. Manufacturers are therefore required to implement
actions and policies to continue playing a strategic role for the global goals of sustainable
development and reduction of global warming. The application of environmental life-cycle assessment
from the early stages of product design is becoming a critical driver to develop a competitive product
also from an environmental perspective. As a matter of fact, the earlier application of design-forenvironment techniques can effectively influence the decisions towards a comprehensive
sustainability. The tutorial, starting from an historical background and state of the art description of
Life Cycle assessment will then describe, through some use cases, typical application of Life Cycle
Assessment to enhance product sustainability.

CONTENT AND OUTLINE
The tutorial session will provide basic insight on:
- Challenges for gas turbine environmental sustainability;
- What is Life Cycle Assessment;
- LCA methodology with reference to available ISO standards (ISO 14040, ISO 14044, ISO 14067);
- Goal and scope, functional unit, system boundaries;
- Inventory phase, attributional vs consequential LCA;
- Impact assessment, impact categories, end point vs mid point;
- Interpretation, single score, product category rules;
- applications for the Oil & Gas sector, specifically on Gas Turbines;
- case study on the application of LCA during a new product development at Baker Hughes;
- potentiality to reduce the environmental impact during the design phase;
- conclusions