Sustainability assessment in Cuban cement sector- a methodological approach

SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT D-A-CH CONFERENCE 2019

生态环境科学

Sánchez, S.^1 ; Cancio, Y.^1 ; Sánchez, I.R.^1 ; Martirena, J.F.^2 ; Rosa, E.R.^3 ; Habert, G.^4

Faculty of Economic Sciences, Central University Marta Abreu of Las Villas (UCLV), Carretera a Camajuani km 51/2, Cuba., Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba^1

Center for Research and Development of Structures and Materials (CIDem), UCLV, Carretera a Camajuani km 51/2, Cuba., Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba^2

Faculty of Chemistry and Farmacy, Central University Marta Abreu of Las Villas (UCLV), Carretera a Camajuani km 51/2, Cuba., Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba^3

ETH Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland^4

关键词: Economic life cycle assessment;    International collaborations;    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA);    Life-cycle costing;    Low carbon cements;    Methodological approach;    Scientific community;    Sustainability assessment;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012128/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012128

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The search of sustainability is a need for human activities in general. Particularly, cement sector as a significant contributor to climate change has to implement strategies to reduce its environmental impacts. But, effective strategies have to be complemented by adequate methodological techniques to assess, guide and certificate sustainability. Amongst all the techniques developed by the scientific community in recent years, life cycle techniques highlight as one of the most used one due to its integrated and holistic philosophy. In Cuba, a new cement based on a combination of calcined clay and limestone to reduce clinker to 50% (Low Carbon Cement, LC3) is been developed as part of an international collaboration project. The main goal of this research is to assess sustainability of cement sector in Cuba using life cycle techniques such as: Life cycle assessment (environmental-LCA), Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Economic Life Cycle Assessment (EcLCA). As part of the assessment LC3 is compared with traditional produced cements in Cuba OPC and PPC. Results show that LC3 introduction allows increasing sustainability in cement sector by reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption, costs and reporting positive effects on society.