Environmental Impact Modeling

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CIRAIG’s research on modeling environmental impacts aims to improve scientific credibility of life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), and to facilitate its implementation.

RESEARCH THEMES

Improve confidence in LCIA and its robustness with a better consideration of uncertainty and spatial variability
Improve coherence between caracterisation models of different impact categories and between LCI and LCIA in order to obtain the most coherent and complementary results possible.
Improve environmental relevance of LCIA and foster easier interpretation of the results

OUR TEAM

Leads in Environmental Impact Modeling

Manuele Margni

Professor
EPFL, HESSO, Polytechnique Montreal

Laure Patouillard

Scientific Coordinator and Research Officer
Polytechnique Montreal

Students in Environmental Impact Modeling

KEY PROJECTS

Coast to Coast (C2C)

Sustainable maritime and coastal management following an integrated approach combining the assessment of ecosystem services on a territorial scale under a life cycle perspective

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WULCA

A group project on the assessment of use and depletion of water resources within LCA

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MariLCA

Integrating potential environmental impacts of marine litter into LCA

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dynCO2: Dynamic Carbon Footprinter

A dynamic LCA software tool used to calculate temporal carbon footprinting

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Marine plastic waste and other threats to oceans

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COLLABORATORS

PUBLICATIONS

Scientific Publications on Environmental Impact Modeling

Van Hoof, G., Schurmans, M., Robertz, B., Ménard, J-F., et al.. (2020) Moving Towards Sustainable Germanium Sourcing Evaluated by Means of Life Cycle Assessment Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy

Boulay, A. M., Benini, L. & Sala, S.. (2019) Marginal and non-marginal approaches in characterization: how context and scale affect the selection of an adequate characterization model. The AWARE model example The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Zhang, Y., Yuan, Z., Margni, M., Bulle, C., Hua, H., Jiang, S. & Liu, X.. (2019) Intensive carbon dioxide emission of coal chemical industry in China Applied Energy 236 540-550

Beauregard, R., Bernier, P., Head, M., Levasseur, A. & Margni, M.. (2019) Forestry carbon budget models to improve biogenic carbon accounting in life cycle assessment Journal of Cleaner Production 213 289-299

Mutel, C., Liao, X., Patouillard, L., Bare, J., Fantke, P., Frischknecht, R., Hauschild, M., Jolliet, O., Maia de Souza, D., Laurent, A., Pfister, S. & Verones, F.. (2018) Overview and recommendations for regionalized life cycle impact assessment International Journal of LCA 24

Patouillard, L., Collet, P., Lesage, P., Tirado Seco, P., Bulle, C. & Margni, M.. (2019) Prioritizing regionalization efforts in life cycle assessment through global sensitivity analysis: a sector meta-analysis based on ecoinvent v3 International Journal of LCA 24 2238–2254

Saunier, F., Fradette, S., Clerveaux, F., Lefebvre, S., Madore, E., Veilleux, G., Bulle, C. & Surprenant, R.. (2019) Comparison of life-cycle assessment between bio-catalyzed and promoted potassium carbonate processes and amine-based carbon capture technologies International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 88

Bjoern, A., Chandrakumar, C., Boulay, A.M., Doka, G., Fang, K., Gondran, N., Zwicky Hauschild, M., Kerkhof, A., King, H., Margni, M. et al. (2020) Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications Environmental Research Letters

Books on Environmental Impact Modeling

Theses and dissertations on Environmental Impact Modeling

Head, M.. (2019) Improvement of Biogenic Carbon Accounting in the Life Cycle of Wood used in Construction in Canada

Environmental Impact Modeling

research

RESEARCH THEMES

OUR TEAM

Leads in Environmental Impact Modeling

Manuele Margni

Cécile Bulle

Anne-Marie Boulay

Laure Patouillard

Students in Environmental Impact Modeling

Carla Alchahir Bel Hajjar

Gabrielle Trottier

Titouan Greffe

Laura Debarre

Jérôme Lavoie

Ivan Viveros Santos

Elizabeth Duboc

Camille Chabas

KEY PROJECTS

Coast to Coast (C2C)

WULCA

MariLCA

dynCO2: Dynamic Carbon Footprinter

Marine plastic waste and other threats to oceans

COLLABORATORS

PUBLICATIONS

Scientific Publications on Environmental Impact Modeling

Books on Environmental Impact Modeling

Theses and dissertations on Environmental Impact Modeling

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