Building of product system and process tree:

Assigment 3 - Template for illumination

Olivier Jolliet, PhD
Elementary and intermediary flows of Tier 1 Aluminum oxide Unit Process

From functional unit lecture:

Illumination
FUNCTIONAL REFERENCE 800 lumen
PRODUCTS FLOWS Incandescent light bulb 5 p
UNIT During 5000 h
OR SYSTEM (service offered) (what is purchased)
Electricity 300 kWh

Light fixture 1/6

SCENARIO 1 800 lumen 5000h/FU x 60 W
for a =300 kWh/FU electricity
duration of 5 incandescent
5000 hours bulbs/FU

1/6 fixture/FU

Design the process tree for illumination with incandescent light

bulb
Start from this FU and reference flow and the intermediary flows on next slide 3
and the process tree design process of slide 4 to build the product system
and process tree on slides 5 for the incandescent light
 Elementary and intermediary flows of an incandescent bulb

2 Use all the bulb an dfixture intermediary flows to design the Tier 2 processes

20 g glass 1 incandescent
15 g aluminum bulb at retail

0.7 g tungsten 35.7g 1 bulb & 10g packaging to landfill

0.38 MJ heat

10g packaging paper

3,200 km truck 1 light fixture
at retail
10,000 km transoceanic freight
400 g polycarbonate 400g 400 g
polycarbonate
8 MJ heat to landfill
Process tree design
Start from your functional unit and the Tier 1 related
reference/intermediary flows needed to be purchased
1 per functional unit. Draw one box per reference flow.
Tier 2
Follow the upstream and downstream intermediary flows
2 of Tier 1 to identify the Tier 2 processes and draw the
Tier 2 boxes.
Tier 1
Repeat this step until you reach processes further covered
3 by an LCA database.
Design the process tree of all unit processes involved
4 in the system (“up to database”), both upstream and FU
downstream from these reference flows.
Tier 1
For each unit process (each box), follow the intermediary
5 flows to document in each box the amount needed per FU.
Process Tree: illuminating with incandescent bulbs
2-4 Start with reference flows at Tier 1, draw one box per reference flow.
Design the process tree – change or add boxes and arrows as needed.
5 Then document in each box the amount needed per FU.
3,200 km truck 1 bulb to landfill
731 kg km
100 Glass 3.5 g tungsten to
landfill
10,000 km Illumination
75 g Aluminum 5 Incandescent 10 g of packaging
transoceanic 800 lumen
light bulb to landfill
freight During 5000 h
2285 kg km
3.5g Tugsteng 400 g of
50 g Packaging polycarbonate to
paper landfill
300 kWh
Electricity
1.9 Mj heat
66.6 g
Polycarbonate
1/6 Light fixture
1.33 Mj heat