Eco-footprint Impact Estimating BDR—Exercises

Basic Data Setup

Enter Emission Substance Groups

Purpose: To be able to categorize the substances with similar characteristics that are emitted during the product lifecycle you need to enter a number of substance groups.

Windows:
Eco-footprint Basic Data

  1. Click the Emission Substance Groups tab.
  2. Enter substance groups as described in the table below.
Substance Group Description
BFR Brominated Flame Retardants
METALS Heavy Metals
GREEN GAS Green House Gases

 

Enter Emission Substance Numbers

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to register different types of emission substances.

Windows:
Substance

Note: For each installation there is a number of system-generated substance numbers.

 

  1. Enter substance numbers as described in the table below.

Substance No Description Substance Group Default Media Code UoM Green House Gas GPW High Acute Toxicity Human Toxicity Potential Carcinogenic Environmental Hazardous Energy MJ per Substance UoM
PB Lead METALS Product kg     ü 0,1   ü    
CD Cadmium METALS Product kg     ü 0,1   ü    
PBDE Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers BFR Product kg         ü      
PLASTIC Plastic Packaging   Recycling kg                
CO2 Carbon Dioxide GREEN GAS Air kg ü 1            
ENERGY Energy   Waste kWh             ü 3,6

Enter Transport Emissions

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the emissions that are generated during the transport of the parts.

Windows:
Eco-footprint Basic Data

  1. Click the Transport Emissions tab.
  2. Enter ship-via-codes and substance emissions as described in the table below.
Ship Via Code Substance No Emission Media Code Emissions per Distance and Weight Unit
30 CO2 Air 0,05
10 CO2 Air 0,7

Note: The supplier must have a distance in supply chain matrix for the suppliers default ship-via code in order to calculate transport emissions