Environmental evaluation platform

This TWB platform enables the analysis of environmental performances of products and processes.

The “Environmental evaluation” platform offers

developed within TWB. The evaluation methods offered are recognized by the scientific community:

• Life cycle analysis (LCA),
• carbon footprint,
• evaluation of environmental risks due to pollutant emissions,
• energy analysis,
• exergy analysis,
• emergy analysis.

The application of these methods requires mastering a number of tools (software, databases) and the know-how and expertise in the respective fields. We now have

for the application of the LCA method: SIMAPRO, UMBERTO, base Ecoinvent. Since our field of expertise is process modelling, environmental evaluation, and mathematical optimization methods, we are currently developing tools (models and software) for the application of all the evaluation methods mentioned above. The aim of these evaluations could be:

• the environmental diagnosis of processes (or products), conducted on an ex post basis on an existing system with a view to its possible improvement, or conducted on an ex ante basis in the project phase with a view to its eco-design;
• the multi-criteria analysis of a system with a view to its mathematical optimization: for example taking into account environmental impacts in the optimization of a process.

. The modelling tools developed perform the environmental diagnosis, calculate the technical parameters of the process, and identify the operating parameters responsible for the environmental impacts generated by the processes.

TWB participates as a partner in the European project 2G BIOPIC with the theme “environmental evaluation of bioethanol production from ligno-cellulosic residues”. The Environmental Evaluation platform thus participates in responses to many calls for tender for national and European projects.