Multi‐criteria Analysis for Technique Assessment
Case Study from Industrial Coating
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19466943 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jutta Geldermann (0000-0002-6437-0305, corresponding author), Otto Rentz |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 127-142 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Industrial Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1088-1980 • E-ISSN: 1530-9290 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/1088198054821591 |
| OpenAlex | W2161513162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Environmental policy is oriented toward integrated pollution prevention, taking into consideration all environmental media (air, water, land) and energy consumption. Therefore, methods for assessing environmentally relevant installations are needed which take economic, technical, and especially ecological criteria into account simultaneously. Mass and energy flow models are used for the representation of production processes and form the basis for the inventory phase in life‐cycle assessment (LCA). For the interpretation of LCA results and the weighting of the aggregated impact assessment indicators, approaches of multicriterion analysis (MCA) have been proposed. These can analyze ecological aspects as well as economic and technical criteria. Recent developments in LCA focus on decision support for policy makers or decision boards. Appropriate support for investment decisions on environmentally relevant installations, however, is rare. Based on a case study of the sector called surface coating, an MCA of environmentally relevant installations is described. With the help of a mass and energy flow management system, alternative scenarios, depicting the use of solvent‐reduced materials and environmentally friendly techniques, are modeled for the job coater processes in case studies of coating of mobile phones and coating of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) parts destined for the automobile industry. The modeled scenarios are further analyzed by using a multicriterion decision support module. The application of the outranking approach PROMETHEE is illustrated. A further investigation of the derived ranking can be obtained through sensitivity analyses. Moreover, the results derived by PROMETHEE are compared with the outcomes of the multicriterion approaches multiattribute utility theory and analytical hierarchy process
Analytic hierarchy process · Business · Economics · Environmental economics · Environmental impact assessment · Industrial ecology · Life-cycle assessment · Material flow analysis · Multiple-criteria decision analysis · Operations research · Sustainability · Waste management · Weighting · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Environmental Science · Multi-Criteria Decision Making · Sustainable Supply Chain Management
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |