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The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Published in: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 1/2013

01-01-2013 | LCA OF WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Life cycle assessment of a waste lubricant oil management system

Authors: Ana Pires, Graça Martinho

Published in: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | Issue 1/2013

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper compares 16 waste lubricant oil (WLO) systems (15 management alternatives and a system in use in Portugal) using a life cycle assessment (LCA). The alternatives tested use various mild processing techniques and recovery options: recycling during expanded clay production, recycling and electric energy production, re-refining, energy recovery during cement production, and energy recovery during expanded clay production.

Methods

The proposed 15 alternatives and the actual present day situation were analyzed using LCA software UMBERTO 5.5, applied to eight environmental impact categories. The LCA included an expansion system to accommodate co-products.

Results

The results show that mild processing with low liquid gas fuel consumption and re-refining is the best option to manage WLO with regard to abiotic depletion, eutrophication, global warming, and human toxicity environmental impacts. A further environmental option is to treat the WLO using the same mild processing technique, but then send it to expanded clay recycling to be used as a fuel in expanded clay production, as this is the best option regarding freshwater sedimental ecotoxicity, freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, and acidification.

Conclusions

It is recommended that there is a shift away from recycling and electric energy production. Although sensitivity analysis shows re-refining and energy recovery in expanded clay production are sensitive to unit location and substituted products emission factors, the LCA analysis as a whole shows that both options are good recovery options; re-refining is the preferable option because it is closer to the New Waste Framework Directive waste hierarchy principle.
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Metadata
Title
Life cycle assessment of a waste lubricant oil management system
Authors
Ana Pires
Graça Martinho
Publication date
01-01-2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0948-3349
Electronic ISSN: 1614-7502
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-012-0455-2

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