Sentence examples for lifecycle analysis from inspiring English sources

Despite some coffee shops selling reusable plastic cups and offering a discount for customers using one, there is a lack of lifecycle analysis on whether they offer a reduced environmental footprint.

A full lifecycle analysis of the water the bottling company uses showed that 99% of the embedded water footprint of its products is used in its supply chain, 76% of that in the growing and refining of sugar beet.

Robert Strand, executive director for the Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, pointed out that metrics like lifecycle analysis can provide definitive answers to production factors like carbon footprints or water usage.

NewCatCo aims to apply this thinking to the design of three-way catalysts, and will use the £25,000 TSB grant to cover a number of areas in its feasibility study including process energy accounting, the health-environmental impacts, materials flow and lifecycle analysis.

A 2009 lifecycle analysis provided to the Guardian by Nespresso found that instant coffee "uses less energy and has a lower environmental footprint than capsule espresso coffee or drip filter coffee, the latter having the highest environmental impacts on a per cup basis".

The advertising watchdog concluded in its ruling that only one other unnamed energy company – probably a reference to Good Energy – supplied electricity from 100% renewable sources, but on a lifecycle analysis of those renewable sources, Ecotricity produced a few grammes less CO2 per kilowatt hour generated.

Results show the significance of considering different damage types induced by multiple types of hazards and repair time variations for lifecycle cost analysis of infrastructure systems.

However, studies have revealed the growing significance of embodied emissions in buildings but its importance is often underestimated in lifecycle emissions analysis.

It is intended that the OEM could utilise this method as part of a full lifecycle cost analysis at the conceptual design stage.

The review continues with discussions of requirements and current performance of mechanical harvesters and a comparative lifecycle economic analysis of alternative HD and SHD systems.

This paper presents a new hazard lifecycle cost analysis framework that addresses this gap and accounts for effects of incomplete repairs of damage conditions induced by prior natural hazards on the future hazard performance of systems.