Life Cycle Assessment of Daugavgriva Waste Water Treatment Plant
2009
Francesco Romagnoli, Felipe Fraga Sampaio, Dagnija Blumberga

This paper presents the assessment of the environmental impacts caused by the treatment of Riga’s waste water in the Daugavgriva plant with biogas energy cogeneration through the life cycle assessment (LCA). The LCA seems to be a good tool to assess and evaluate the most serious environmental impacts of a facility The results showed clearly that the impact category contributing the most to the total impact –eutrophicationcomes from the wastewater treatment stage. Climate change also seems to be a relevant impact coming from the wastewater treatment stage and the main contributor to the Climate change is N2O. The main environmental benefits, in terms of the percentages of the total impact, associated to the use of biogas instead of any other fossil fuel in the cogeneration plant are equal to: 3,11% for abiotic depletation, 1,48% for climate change, 0,51% for acidification and 0,12% for eutrophication.


Atslēgas vārdi
cogeneration, damage categories, environmental impact, LCA, waste water treatment

Romagnoli, F., Fraga Sampaio, F., Blumberga, D. Life Cycle Assessment of Daugavgriva Waste Water Treatment Plant. Environmental and Climate Technologies. Nr.3, 2009, 86.-96.lpp. ISSN 1691-5208.

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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