Functional Unit & Reference Flow: Comparing Products Fairly
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You turn three kettles with different lifetimes and efficiencies into the same functional unit (ten years of boiled water for one household) and find out which one really has the lowest footprint.
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Lessons in this course
- Functional Unit & Reference Flow: Comparing Products Fairly Locked
- Materials Stage: Bill of Materials × Emission Factors with Scrap Locked
- Manufacturing: Plant Energy, Allocation by Machine Hours vs Mass Locked
- Distribution: Tonne-Kilometres, Transport Modes & the Air-Freight Trap Locked
- Use Phase: Electricity per Year, a Falling Grid Factor & Overfilling Locked
- End of Life: Recycling, Incineration, Landfill & Avoided-Burden Credits Locked
- Hotspot Analysis: Stage Totals with SUMIFS, Shares, a Chart & Highlights Locked
- Eco-Design Comparison: Baseline vs Redesign per Functional Unit Locked