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Life cycle assessment of consumer products with a focus on fire performance

Simonson, Margaret LU and Andersson, Petra LU (2008) p.331-359
Abstract

Fire-LCA was invented in response to the need for a more holistic LCA of products containing flame retardants. This chapter describes how to conduct a Fire-LCA, illustrated using three product-based case studies: TV sets, furniture and cables. In the TV-set study a US TV was compared with a European TV, the furniture study compared a European sofa with a UK sofa, while two cables with similar fire performance were compared in the cable study. Finally future trends in holistic assessment of modern products are outlined, including a newly developed cost-benefit methodology.

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Advances in Fire Retardant Materials
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29 pages
publisher
Elsevier
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  • scopus:84902608857
ISBN
9781845692629
DOI
10.1533/9781845694701.2.331
language
English
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Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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  title        = {{Life cycle assessment of consumer products with a focus on fire performance}},
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