Life Cycle Assessment of Waste and Water Systems
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Siming You
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 2 9 9 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 0 0 - 9
Life Cycle Assessment of Waste and Water Systems covers all essential information for the environmental accounting of major waste, water and hydrogen systems using the approa… Read more
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Life Cycle Assessment of Waste and Water Systems covers all essential information for the environmental accounting of major waste, water and hydrogen systems using the approach of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The book helps you to quickly learn, understand and apply the standardized approach with major issues related to LCA. By focusing on major waste and water, it allows you to get familiar with LCAs of the most commonly encountered systems and technologies for circular economy development. This book provides systematic and representative databases on the energy, materials and emissions of the technologies, and serves as a one-stop source to facilitate conducting preliminary LCA studies. The practical implementation and systematic presentation of LCA principles followed by comparative illustrations makes the book an indispensable source for academics, students, scientists, engineers, technicians, investors, and policymakers.
- Includes up-to-date understanding of the fundamentals and principles of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Details the applications of LCA based on the analysis of representative waste and water
- Provides systematic and representative databases for readers to start applying LCA quickly and effectively
- Includes comparative case studies to guide audiences to better understand LCA and comparative results for quick understanding of the environmental benefits of waste and water technologies and systems
Under- and post-graduate students, postdoctoral researchers in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, and Applied Mathematics
1. Introduction
1.1. Waste and Water Developments
1.2. Environmental Accounting
2. Principles of Life Cycle Assessment
2.1. Procedure
2.2. Implementation
2.3. LCA Technical Matters Worth Attention
3. Waste
3.1. Waste Management Systems/Technologies
3.2. LCA of Waste-to-biomethane
3.3. LCA of Waste-to-energy
3.4. LCA of Waste-to-biochar
4. Water
4.1. Water Management Systems/Technologies
4.2. LCA of Drinking Water Technology
4.3. LCA of Wastewater Technology
5. Perspectives of future development
1.1. Waste and Water Developments
1.2. Environmental Accounting
2. Principles of Life Cycle Assessment
2.1. Procedure
2.2. Implementation
2.3. LCA Technical Matters Worth Attention
3. Waste
3.1. Waste Management Systems/Technologies
3.2. LCA of Waste-to-biomethane
3.3. LCA of Waste-to-energy
3.4. LCA of Waste-to-biochar
4. Water
4.1. Water Management Systems/Technologies
4.2. LCA of Drinking Water Technology
4.3. LCA of Wastewater Technology
5. Perspectives of future development
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Siming You
Dr. Siming You, Senior Lecturer in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, UK, specialises in the design and analysis of environmental and energy systems with a focus on water treatment and waste management systems. Before joining the School, he worked as a Research Fellow at NUS (National University of Singapore) Environmental Research Institute. He also served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Dr. You received his Ph.D. in Thermo-fluids from Nanyang Technological University in 2014. Dr. You was awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), SLS in 2018. Dr You has published more 100 papers in top-tier journals including Science, Bioresource Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, etc.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK