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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) & Material Flow Analysis (MFA) (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Andreas Möller
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 08:15 - 09:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 11.307 Seminarraum
Inhalt: NOT INTENDED FOR STUDENTS OF THE PSYCHOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY M.SC. Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Life Cycle Assessment serve as frameworks that integrate different modeling and simulation approaches (calculation methods). The main challenge of calculation procedures in the field of MFA (and other tools for environmental modeling) is to solve equations numerically. The modeling and simulation approaches comprise two steps or tasks: (1) the specification of a system of equations and (2) the calculation of solutions. Software tools provide support for both tasks. They provide an appropriate user interface (e.g. direct manipulation of objects and properties instead of equations) and a calculation engine (solvers). Different strategies to specify and to solve equations are required: (1) Systems of linear algebraic equations (efficiency analyses like cost accounting or life cycle assessment), (2) System of non-linear algebraic equations (steady state in material and energy flow systems), (3) Systems of ordinary differential equations (dynamics of stocks). So, core topics of the seminar are: + Application of solution methods for linear equations, + Approaches to solving sets of nonlinear equations, + MFA & LCA as accounting systems for material and energy flows and stock + Assessment of environmental impacts of products, services and decisions