Sustainability has strong implications on the practice of engineering. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an appropriate methodology for assessing the sustainability of a wastewater treatment plant design. The present study used a LCA approach for comparing alternative wastewater treatment processes for small and decentralised rural communities. The assessment was focused on two energy-saving systems (constructed w...
There are several methodologies that enable direct comparison of centralized and decentralized sewage treatment systems, both in economical and ecological view. One of the latter is the so-called Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA), which accounts for the environmental impacts of a product, service, or process over the course of its life cycle. Assessed environmental impacts generally include consumption of land, energy,...
El seguiente capítulo presenta los trabajos realizados en el marco del proyecto DEPURANAT con el fin de analizar económicamente y evaluar ambientalmente, un conjunto de sistemas de tratamento de aguas residuales de pequeñas aglomeraciones rurales. Los estudios se han enfocado principalmente, en los SDN, con la idea de facilitar una herramienta práctica que pueda incentivar la implantación de estos sistemas. En ...
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