The assessment of eco-design with a comprehensive index incorporating environmental impact and economic profit

2017 3rd International Conference on Energy, Environment and Materials Science

能源学;生态环境科学;材料科学

Yang, Shuo^1,2 ; Fu, Yun^1 ; Wang, Xiuteng^1 ; Xu, Bingsheng^1,2 ; Li, Zheng^3

Resource and Environmental Branch, China National Institute of Standardization, Beijing

100191, China^1

School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing

100084, China^2

Shandong Special Equipment Inspection Co., Jinan

250001, China^3

关键词: Adverse environmental impacts;    Comprehensive indices;    Environmental and economic performance;    Environmental aspects;    Individual interests;    National innovations;    Technical process;    Willingness to pay;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/94/1/012146/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/94/1/012146

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Eco-design is an advanced design approach which plays an important part in the national innovation project and serves as a key point for the successful transformation of the supply structure. However, the practical implementation of the pro-environmental designs and technologies always faces a dilemma situation, where some processes can effectively control their emissions to protect the environment at relatively high costs, while others pursue the individual interest in making profit by ignoring the possible adverse environmental impacts. Thus, the assessment on the eco-design process must be carried out based on the comprehensive consideration of the economic and environmental aspects. Presently, the assessment systems in China are unable to fully reflect the new environmental technologies regarding their innovative features or performance. Most of the assessment systems adopt scoring method based on the judgments of the experts, which are easy to use but somewhat subjective. The assessment method presented in this paper includes the environmental impact (EI) assessment based on LCA principal and willingness-to-pay theory, and economic profit (EP) assessment mainly based on market price. The results from the assessment are in the form of EI/EP, which evaluate the targeted process from a combined perspective of environmental and economic performance. A case study was carried out upon the utilization process of coal fly ash, which indicates the proposed method can compare different technical processes in an effective and objective manner, and provide explicit and insightful suggestions for decision making.