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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Biotecnologie per le biorisorse e lo sviluppo ecosostenibile - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Life Cycle Assessment and Costing of bio-based products (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S010492
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
ING-IND/25 - CHEMICAL PLANTS
Courses Single
Authorized with reserve
The teaching is organized as follows:
TEORIA
ESERCITAZIONE
Learning objectives
The realization on an industrial scale of a bio-product or a biorefinery process requires a preliminary study both of its economic potential and of its environmental and energetic impacts. The course aims to provide the basis for the understanding and adoption of two strategic tools, the Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which aim at the economic and environmental analysis of processes, services and products. Specifically, the LCA analysis aims at quantifying the environmental impacts of a product along all the phases of its entire life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials, through production, transport, the use phase, up to disposal. The LCC study is the method used to calculate the economic cost of the entire Life Cycle of a product or service, starting from the phases preceding the production up to its final disposal, with the aim of minimizing the costs of production or to maximize revenues.
Prerequisites and basic notions
The course requires the knowledge of the basic notions of mathematics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry and physics.
Program
The course is divided into three main areas: 1) the mass and energy balance both on the single processes and on the entire plant for the production of bio-fuels and bio-based products; 2) The basic evaluation of the environmental impacts (Life Cycle Assessment) of the main biotechnologies used in the biorefinery field; 3) the basic evaluation of the economic feasibility of the processes, in order to evaluate a possible scale-up. Determination of the Break Even Point for the production processes.
Didactic methods
The course will provide both frontal lectures and pratical lessons. During the lectures the main theoretical notions of the topics covered by the program will be provided by the professor. Along the practical lessons, students will be divided in small groups to set up and solve mass balance exercises and evaluation of the environmental and cost impacts of bio-processes.
Learning assessment procedures
The candidate is required to pass a written exam which will have as its object the resolution of a matter and energy balancing exercise and a basic assessment of the environmental and cost impacts of a bio-process. Furthermore, the written exam will include the answer to 10 multiple choice questions. Furthermore, the candidate will make a group presentation on a specific LCA topic which will be evaluated by a commission of three professors from the biotechnology department.
Evaluation criteria
The exam will evaluate the ability to set up simple mass and energy balances as well as to evaluate the main environmental impacts and costs / revenues of the proposed bio-process.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The grade of the written test will depend 50% on the setting of the mass and energy balance and the evaluation of the environmental impacts and costs/revenues of the process covered by the exercise and 30% on the answer to the multiple choice questions. The group presentation will be worth 20% of the final grade.
Exam language
Italiano
