The Life Cycle Assessment Of The Products Of Panel Furniture

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a quantitative and qualitative analysis method which evaluates the product and process from the collection of raw material to the manufacture, use of the product as well as the disposal of it. The purpose is to valuate environmental impact of these factors and search for a chance to improve. At the present time, all kinds of international social aspects pay attention to the development and application of life cycle assessment. It is expected that LCA will be a technique of environmental management with the most vitality and development future in this century.In this paper, first applies it to the field of the products of the products of panel furniture(the products of wood material). And it is discussed to apply manufacturing on the basis of the traditional LCA in the products of panel furniture.A set of life cycle assessment model which is suitable to this kind of products is brought up in this paper and is used to analyze and valuate resource depletion and environment influence in life cycle of the MDF products and the products of panel furniture manufactured by Hubei Jixiang Timber Products Company Limited and Shen Zhen's Havision furniture Company Limited, including three parts:goals and scoping, inventory analysis and life cycle impact assessment. In result, two important assessment indices are gotten:resource depletion index and environmental load index.The results of the LCA show that:using clean energy, reforming the production flow sheet and renewing the equipments can help the corporation to reduce energy consumption, resource consumption and the environmental emissions to decrease the cost of the paper product; and also can help the corporation to develop and use the resource reasonably.to use the raw materials and energy which are beneficial for environment, to improve the use efficient of the raw materials and energy, to reduce the waste of the resource and the emission of the pollutants, to reduce the pressure of the panel furniture(the products of wood material) making industry to the environment.