TY - JOUR
T1 - Life cycle environmental and economic assessment of a LID-BMP treatment train system
T2 - A case study in China
AU - Xu, Changqing
AU - Hong, Jinglan
AU - Jia, Haifeng
AU - Liang, Shidong
AU - Xu, Te
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/4/15
Y1 - 2017/4/15
N2 - A cost-combined life-cycle assessment was conducted to estimate the environmental and economic burdens of a low impact development best management practice (LID-BMP) treatment train system in China. Results showed that climate change, human toxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, freshwater ecotoxicity, marine ecotoxicity and fossil depletion dominantly contributed to the overall environmental effect. Infiltration pit exhibited the highest environmental effects because of high consumption of PVC and non-woven fabrics, whereas grassed swale and buffer strip had the lowest environmental impacts. The operation phase showed great environmental benefits because a LID-BMP treatment train system can significantly reduce the emissions of heavy metals, suspended solids, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus to water. From an economic perspective, constructed wetland exhibited the highest economic burdens where the costs of graded gravel and bedding plants had a significant function, whereas grassed swale had the lowest economic burdens because of low consumption of raw materials. Optimizing the efficiency of PVC, non-woven fabric consumption, and road transport is an effective way to improve the potential environmental performance of LID-BMP construction phase.
AB - A cost-combined life-cycle assessment was conducted to estimate the environmental and economic burdens of a low impact development best management practice (LID-BMP) treatment train system in China. Results showed that climate change, human toxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, freshwater ecotoxicity, marine ecotoxicity and fossil depletion dominantly contributed to the overall environmental effect. Infiltration pit exhibited the highest environmental effects because of high consumption of PVC and non-woven fabrics, whereas grassed swale and buffer strip had the lowest environmental impacts. The operation phase showed great environmental benefits because a LID-BMP treatment train system can significantly reduce the emissions of heavy metals, suspended solids, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus to water. From an economic perspective, constructed wetland exhibited the highest economic burdens where the costs of graded gravel and bedding plants had a significant function, whereas grassed swale had the lowest economic burdens because of low consumption of raw materials. Optimizing the efficiency of PVC, non-woven fabric consumption, and road transport is an effective way to improve the potential environmental performance of LID-BMP construction phase.
KW - Environmental impact
KW - LID-BMP
KW - Life-cycle assessment
KW - Life-cycle costing
KW - Stormwater
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015741152&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.086
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.086
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85015741152
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 149
SP - 227
EP - 237
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
ER -
