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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
卷 137, 期 -, 页码 997-1003出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.218
关键词
Drinking water; Glass bottle; Life cycle assessment; Mineral water; Plastic bottle; Reverse osmosis
资金
- Barcelona Metropolitan Area (Ajuts a la recerca en prevencio de residus de l'Area Metropolitana de Barcelona)
This study evaluated the environmental impacts caused by drinking water consumption in Barcelona (Spain) using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Five different scenarios were compared: 1) tap water from conventional drinking water treatment; 2) tap water from Conventional drinking water treatment with reverse osmosis at the water treatment plant; 3) tap water from conventional drinking water treatment with domestic reverse osmosis; 4) mineral water in plastic bottles, and 5) mineral water in glass bottles. The functional unit was 1 m(3) of water. The water treatment plant considered in scenarios 1, 2 and 3, treats around 5 m(3) s(-1) of surface water. The water bottling plants considered in scenarios 4 and 5 have a production capacity of 200 m(3) of bottled water per day. The LCA was performed with the software SimaProe (R), using the CML 2 baseline method. The results showed how tap water consumption was the most favourable alternative, while bottled water presented the worst results due to the higher raw materials and energy inputs required for bottles manufacturing, especially in the case of glass bottles. The impacts generated by domestic reverse osmosis were between 10 and 24% higher than tap water alternative depending on the impact category. It was due to the higher electricity consumption. Reverse osmosis at the water treatment plant showed impacts nearly twice as high as domestic reverse osmosis systems scenario, mainly because of the higher energy inputs. Water treated by domestic reverse osmosis equipment was the most environmentally friendly solution for the improvement of tap water organoleptic characteristics. An economic analysis showed that this solution was between 8 and 19 times cheaper than bottled water. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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