Ökobilanzierung des selektiven katalytischen Reduktionsverfahrens

This paper describes the overall reduction of the environmental impact by the use of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) determined by a investigation of the life cycle assessment of SCR systems for power plants. The overall reduction of the environmental impact by the use of SCR was determined under consideration of the total product life cycle from manufacture of the starting materials through catalyst production and use in the power plant to processing for recycling. Following clear specification of the overall system limits and definition of the goals for the analysis to be performed, the inventory analyses were determined for the individual process steps and in summary for the overall process cycle/sequence under consideration of basic SCR application variants in the power plant. The inventory analysis was used to generate the impact assessment and improvement assessment. This work was performed using the concept given by Braunschweig, A., and Muller-Wenk, R. Other tools of environmental management of products and processes used were the methods of process cycle/sequence analysis, process input-output analysis and cumulative energy consumption or expenditure.