A New Approach to Acidification in LCA

2001-01-3246

10/01/2001

Event
Automotive and Transportation Technology Congress and Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
Any air emission is classified as acidic when the release of that emission causes the resultant precipitation to have a higher hydrogen ion concentration - [H+] - than that for normal rainwater. The treatment of acidifying airborne emissions in life cycle assessment has, to date, consisted principally of globally aggregated inventory data. As such their use in calculating [H+] is inappropriate since acidification is a regional rather than a global effect. This paper suggests a different approach, in which standard chemistry calculation techniques are used to determine [H+] at a regional level, accounting for both variations in acid mix and local precipitation.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-3246
Pages
6
Citation
Dove, W., and Boustead, I., "A New Approach to Acidification in LCA," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-3246, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-3246.
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Published
Oct 1, 2001
Product Code
2001-01-3246
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English