Rui Shi | Chemical Engineering
With new technologies and innovations coming out each day in a transition to a sustainable economy, we need systems analysis tools to help prioritize research and development targets. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely applied in a variety of industries to quantify the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service across the entire supply chain. In this talk, I will share how we link engineering metrics with sustainability analyses including LCA (for environmental impacts) and techno-economic analysis (for economic viability) under uncertainty, and I invite you to consider how the application of LCA can elucidate sustainability implications of technological innovations and design decisions in your research.