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Life Cycle Assessment on the Reuse of Glass Bottles

유리병 재사용에 대한 전과정평가

  • 김형진 (수원과학대학 환경보건과) ;
  • 권영식 (수원과학대학 환경보건과) ;
  • 최윤근 ((주)에코글로벌컨설팅) ;
  • 정찬교 (수원대학교 환경공학과) ;
  • 백승혁 (현대엔지니어링 화공사업본부) ;
  • 김영우 (호서대학교 자동차공학과)
  • Published : 2009.09.30
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Abstract

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been studied on the reuse of glass bottles. The system boundary in this study encompassed from gate to gate such as production and transportation. A 360 mL volume of a glass bottle was selected as the functional unit. The environmental impact assessments was studied on 6 categories including abiotic resource depletion, acidification, eutrophication, global warming, ozone depletion, and photochemical oxidant creation. The results showed that the most significant impact categories were abiotic resource depletion (48.63%) and global warming (46.27%), and the rest categories revealed insignificant impacts. In the whole system, the chemicals used for the new bottle production revealed the major contribution to the environmental impacts (71.24%), followed by the use of electricity (16.74%) and transportation (11.8%). In addition, the environmental impact of sodium silicate to be put into the stage of the new bottle production was found to be 45.68%, causing severe influence on abiotic resource depletion and global warming.

본 연구에서는 유리병 재사용에 대한 환경영향을 알아보기 위하여 전과정평가를 수행하였다. 연구범위로는 제품제조 및 원료수송 단계로 한정지었으며 360 mL 유리병 한 개를 기능단위로 사용하였다. 고려된 환경영향 범주는 6개로 자원고갈, 산성화, 부영양화, 지구온난화, 오존층파괴 및 광화학산화물 생성 등이었다. 전과정평과 결과, 자원고갈이 48.63%, 지구온난화가 46.27%로 두 범주가 가장 큰 환경영향을 보였으며 나머지 범주들은 상대적으로 미미한 영향을 보였다. 전체 공정 중 신병제조공정에 사용되는 화학약품에 의한 환경영향이 71.24%로서 주요인으로 나타났고 전력사용은 16.74%, 수송은 11.8%로 다음을 차지하고 있다. 또한 신병제조공정에 투입되는 화학약품 중 규산나트륨에 의한 환경영향이 45.68%를 차지하고 있어 자원고갈 및 지구온난화에 대한 기여도가 가장 큰 것으로 보인다.

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