The Application Of Life Cycle Assessment To Product Development And Project Analysis

At first the article analyzes the knowledge development condition, connotation, structure and theory basis of life cycle assessment (LCA). Then analyzes the application of LCA to product development and project analysis. At last the application of LCA to automobile fuels based on natural gas is analyzed, and then come to the conclusion. At the same time, this article discusses the application of LCA to many aspects.LCA is a method on research about the effect of chemical products to the environment and how to reduce the effect. LCA is a completely analysis of chemical product lifecycle from raw material to the product being used, and until the waste going into environment. The theory basis of LCA is system theories and sustainable development. LCA was used in environment analysis of chemical product at first. With the development of research, LCA was used in economic and energy analysis gradually. It is the base for the unity of economy, energy, and environment, and the establishment of indexes for sustainable development.The production and using of products is the component of the society. So, the usage of LCA in product development to analyzes the production project, craft process, usage process, and the discarding process can lead to the best combination of energy consume, environment pollution and economic. It is very important for the product sustainable development.As product development is a project, LCA can be applied to project management. It is helpful for us to make use of LCA to analyze the project at the phase zero. And it is useful to reduce environment pollution and energy consume, raise society and economic performance.At last this article analyzes the application of LCA in automobile substitute fuels. We can come to the conclusion: cost ratio of motor fuels and total lifecycle cost, after the life cycle assessment of automobile substitute fuels based on natural gas in Chongqing. We can see the economic of each automobile substitute fuel. The suggestion of energy construction adjustment in Chongqing can be conclude according these conclusions. Then this article analyzes the application of LCA to other product development at the view of system theories and sustainable development. It is important of the application of LCA to project analysis...