CarbonScope™
CarbonScope™ is a state-of-the-art interactive web-based software tool for modeling and analyzing life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy use in complex product supply chains. With CarbonScope, every step in a product life cycle can be modeled in detail from an energy and emissions perspective. CarbonScope™ addresses the increasing concerns about carbon footprints and energy consumption in product life cycles by automating and simplifying the difficult tasks involved in modeling, analyzing and optimizing these critical environmental performance metrics.
CarbonScope™ includes an extensive life cycle inventory (LCI) database covering raw materials used in manufacturing/construction/packaging, common industrial processes, agricultural processes and food products, as well as detailed transport models, energy sources, and domestic/international emission factors. Users can examine the life-cycle GHG emissions and energy use for a single product, compare two or more product life cycles in detail, or examine/compare two or more collections of products such as shopping baskets or manufacturing/construction assemblies.
Features
CarbonScope™ supports the modeling of all key life-cycle stages of products and services, including:
- Extraction of raw materials and fuel sources
- Production and processing
- Transportation and warehousing, including refrigerated options
- Use phase
- Waste disposal in production and use and at end-of-life
- Carbon storage and sequestration in materials, soil, and vegetation
- Land use changes related to the production and/or use of a product or service
Other advanced features include:
- New material-handling algorithms to track complex material and waste streams in product/service life cycles
- Built-in verification of material and energy balances in product systems
- Dynamic life-cycle modeling -- based on our Deep Carbon Footprinting™ methodology -- that accounts for time-dependent emissions and sequestration, as well as non-linear emission/sequestration characteristics
- Hierachical model-building for complex life cycles
- Automatic domestic and international transport distance calculations
- User-defined custom emission factors
- Automated generation of detailed audit trails to enable reporting/documentation, technical reviews, and certifications of the results
Applications
- Life-cycle carbon footprint analysis for any product or service -- for use in reporting, benchmarking, process characterization, and product eco-labeling
- Identification of hot spots for energy use and GHG emissions in product/service life cycles
- Verification of specific optimizations to improve supply-chain and life-cycle environmental performance
Industries
CarbonScope™ is a general-purpose analytical tool that can be used across a broad range of industries, products, and services. It has been used extensively to model food and beverage products (including processed foods), packaging materials and systems, building materials and construction, textiles and apparel products (including home textiles), kitchenware, sewer systems, and alternative energy systems -- to cite a few examples.
Standards
CarbonScope™ complies with applicable international standards (ISO 14040 series, PAS 2050) for life-cycle assessment and product carbon footprint analysis, and will comply with other major standards that are in development.
Availability
CarbonScope™ is available to subscribers at www.cleanmetrics.net/carbonscope. Please contact us to arrange a web-based demonstration and to discuss how we can personalize CarbonScope™ for your specific application.
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