Conception and test of a measuring station for the analysisof the resource and energy consumption of material floworiented environmental management information systems (EMIS)

Abstract

The aim of this work is to design a measurement setting that enables the analysis of the resource and energy consumption of material flow oriented corporate environmental information systems (BUIS). For this purpose, the focus is put on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software. LCA software supports LCA mainly in Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) and in Life Cycle Impact Analysis (LCIA). For the impact assessments, through which potential impacts on the environment are calculated, the LCA software requires many substance-specific life cycle impact data sets, which are stored in databases. In this work, we mainly refer to LCA software that runs in the form of desktop applications. In order to create a measurement configuration suitable for LCA software, the software to be tested and the necessary methodology for desktop solutions are searched. The found solution for sustainable evaluation of software products is adapted to the goal of comparing the efficiency LCA software. The determined measurement standard will be applied, modified and extended. The measurement configuration will be built and tested. Problems of a theoretical nature and problems in setting up the tests are addressed. Any problems of the comparability basis that may arise when performing tests on the selected LCA in the software in the future will be addressed, and a possible solution path will be shown. An outlook on the further course of the measurements is given.