Doka LCA - Publications

LCA in general

• "LCA and Sustainability"
  Short essay on the issue of normalisation with sustainable targets, 2007. PDF


• "Is it always clear what 'good quality' is? - Value choices in quality management"
  Short presentation at the 23rd discussion forum LCA  , 2004. PDF slides

LCI editor

• Esixell format converter
  The Esixell converter for EcoSpold1 process inventories between Excel workbooks and XML files, 2023. Comissioned by BAFU
  Technical Manual (1.7 MB PDF) & Excel workbook with macros (238 kB XLSM)

LCIA/Impact Assessment Methods

• Review of life-cycle based methods for absolute environmental sustainability assessment and their applications
  Co-Author, paper in Environmental Research Letters Vol. 15, 2020 PDF
  


• Combining life cycle inventory results with planetary boundaries: The Planetary Boundary Allowance impact assessment method Update PBA'06
  Characterisation factors derived from Planetary Boundaries (Steffen et al. 2015), April 2016. Methodology report PDF & Excel table (xlsx)
  


• Combining life cycle inventory results with planetary boundaries: The Planetary Boundary Allowance impact assessment method PBA'05
  Characterisation factors derived from Planetary Boundaries (Rockström et al. 2009), May 2015. Methodology report PDF & Excel table (xlsx)
  Videocapture  and my presentation slides (2 MB) of the 59th Discussion Forum LCA  , Zürich, 12th June 2015.


• Estimates of road, rail and airplane noise damages for Life Cycle Assessment
  Characterisation factors for traffic noise damages in LCA, 2009. PDF


• Correction of Eco-indicator'99 Normalisation values
  Documenting an error in energy normalisation values detected by Patrick Hofstetter, 2007. PDF


• Overview of other nation's versions of the BUWAL ecoscarcity method
  For BUWAL/BAFU, 2002. PDF


• "The Assessment of Environmental Impacts caused by Land Use in the Life Cycle Assessment of Forestry and Forest Products"
  Co-author, final Report of Working Group 2 "Land use" of COST Action E9  (Life Cycle Assessment of Forestry and Forest Products), 2002. PDF


• Complete Life Cycle Assessment for Vehicle Models of the Mobility CarSharing Fleet Switzerland
  With Sabine Ziegler. Includes a new assessment approach for land use, fragmentation, noise, and road accidents. For the 1st Swiss Transport Research Conference STRC  , 2001. Proceedings PDF


• Corrections to CML'01 method fluoride characterisation factors according to Huijbregts 2000
  2004. Excel-Sheet

Disposal processes

• Guidance on how to consider waste disposal in inventories of waste-producing activities
  May 2023. For Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). Helping process inventory authors to include pertinent waste disposal processes for waste outputs.
  Technical report (1.1 MB PDF).


• Third update location- and waste-specific life cycle inventories of waste treatment.
  April 2023. New model for waste-specific and regionalised models for residual material landfills and slag compartments.
  • Introduction: LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment - General introduction 2020, version 2 PDF report (6.2 MB PDF).
  • Dumping: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of open dumps and unsanitary landfilling of waste 2017 PDF report (6.2 MB PDF).
  • Burning: A model for waste-specific life cycle inventories of open burning of waste 2017 PDF report (1.3 MB PDF).
  • Tailings: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of tailings impoundments 2018, version 2 PDF report (1.7 MB PDF).
  • Inert material landfills: Two models for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of excavation material landfills and construction & demolition waste landfill 2020 PDF report (1.8 MB PDF).
  • Wastewater disposal: A model for composition-specific life cycle inventories of regionalised wastewater fates 2021 PDF report (4.5 MB PDF).
  • Slag compartments and residual waste landfills: Update to the model for composition-specific life cycle inventories of bottom ash and residual waste landfills 2023 PDF report (2.8 MB PDF).
  
  • Manual: Calculation manual for LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment 2023, version 4 PDF report (6.3 MB PDF).
  • Tools: Excel tools for EcoSpold2 + EcoSpold1 files 2021 + SimaPro mapping file 8 Excel workbooks in ZIP-Archive (18.7 MB ZIP)
    ➤ Versions and updates of tools 2023 Plain Text (TXT)
  • Country disposal mixes: Excel calculation sheet for waste disposal mixes and annual volumes 2018 (930 kB XLSX).
  


• Second update location- and waste-specific life cycle inventories of waste treatment.
  June 2021. New model for waste-specific and regionalised wastewater disposal and treatment.
  • Introduction: LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment - General introduction 2020, version 2 PDF report (8.5 MB PDF).
  • Dumping: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of open dumps and unsanitary landfilling of waste 2017 PDF report (17.8 MB PDF).
  • Burning: A model for waste-specific life cycle inventories of open burning of waste 2017 PDF report (4.7 MB PDF).
  • Tailings: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of tailings impoundments 2018, version 2 PDF report (3.4 MB PDF).
  • Inert material landfills: Two models for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of excavation material landfills and construction & demolition waste landfill 2020 PDF report (4.7 MB PDF).
  • Wastewater disposal: A model for composition-specific life cycle inventories of regionalised wastewater fates 2021 PDF report (4.9 MB PDF).
  
  • Manual: Calculation manual for LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment 2021, version 3 PDF report (11.6 MB PDF).
  • Tools: Excel tools for EcoSpold2 + EcoSpold1 files 2021 + SimaPro mapping file 7 Excel workbooks in ZIP-Archive (16.9 MB ZIP)
    ➤ Versions and updates of tools 2021 Plain Text (TXT)
  • Country disposal mixes: Excel calculation sheet for waste disposal mixes and annual volumes 2018 (930 kB XLSX).
  


• Updated location- and waste-specific life cycle inventories of waste treatment.
  August 2020. Updated tools with the ability to create EcoSpold1 files. New models for construction waste landfill and excavation material landfill.
  • Introduction: LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment - General introduction 2020, version 2 PDF report (3.3 MB PDF).
  • Dumping: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of open dumps and unsanitary landfilling of waste 2017 PDF report (2.7 MB PDF).
  • Burning: A model for waste-specific life cycle inventories of open burning of waste 2017 PDF report (0.6 MB PDF).
  • Tailings: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of tailings impoundments 2018, version 2 PDF report (1 MB PDF).
  • Inert material landfills: Two models for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of excavation material landfills and construction & demolition waste landfill 2020 PDF report (1.1 MB PDF).
  
  • Manual: Calculation manual for LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment 2020, version 2 PDF report (2.6 MB PDF).
  • Tools: Excel tools for EcoSpold2 + EcoSpold1 files 2020 + SimaPro mapping file 7 Excel workbooks in ZIP-Archive (13.3 MB ZIP)
    ➤ Versions and updates of tools 2020 Plain Text (TXT)
  • Country disposal mixes: Excel calculation sheet for waste disposal mixes and annual volumes 2018 (930 kB XLSX).
  


• New inventory exchanges for characterisation factors of the Swiss method of environmental scarcity
  June 2020. For Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). For waste mass and organic carbon placed in landfills.
  Memorandum (291 kB PDF).
  Excel list with additional exchange figures to existing UPR datsets (193 kB XLSX).
  


• Life cycle inventories of sulfidic tailings disposal
  Co-author with David Turner and Roland Hischier of EMPA St. Gallen, 2019. New inventories of ore- and climate-specific sulfidic tailings impoundments.
  Report (2.2 MB PDF).
  


• Inventory parameters for regionalised mixes of municipal waste disposal in ecoinvent v3.5
  December 2018. For ecoinvent Association. Introducing a global regionalisation of waste disposal and infiltration classes for landfills
  Technical report (5.7 MB PDF).
  Excel calculation sheet for waste disposal mixes and annual volumes (930 kB XLSX).
  


• Location- and waste-specific life cycle inventories of waste treatment.
  September 2017. From a project for Sustainable Recycling Inititive SRI, with ecoinvent Association
  • Introduction: LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment - General introduction PDF report (9 MB PDF).
  • Dumping: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of open dumps and unsanitary landfilling of waste PDF report (2.7 MB PDF).
  • Burning: A model for waste-specific life cycle inventories of open burning of waste PDF report (0.6 MB PDF).
  • Tailings: A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of tailings impoundments PDF report (3.8 MB PDF).
  
  • Manual: Calculation manual for LCI calculation tools for regionalised waste treatment PDF report (11.3 MB PDF).
  • Tools: Excel tools for Ecospold2 files 5 Excel workbooks in ZIP-Archive (7.3 MB ZIP)
    ➤ Versions and updates of tools Plain Text (TXT)
  • Statistics: Compiled statistics on waste analysis and treatment Excel workbook (205 kB XLS).
  


• A model for waste-specific life cycle inventories of open burning of waste.
  February 2016. Technical report (0.45 MB PDF).
  


• A model for waste-specific and climate-specific life cycle inventories of open dumps and unsanitary landfilling of waste.
  January 2016. Technical report (12.5 MB PDF).
  


• Life cycle inventories of municipal waste incineration with residual landfill & FLUWA filter ash treatment
  Swiss municipal waste incineration with fly ash extraction for ecoinvent v3.2 For EMPA/BAFU, March 2015. Full PDF report (6.7 MB PDF).
  Process inventory data in EcoSpold1-format in Excel tables XLS (807 kB)


• Additions report for the update of municipal solid waste incineration inventories
  Report detailing the changes in the inventory calculation for MSWI LCIs for ecoinvent v3.1 For EMPA/BAFU, Dec 2013. Full PDF report (3.6 MB PDF).


• Update and parameterisation of waste incineration plants
  Chapter 3.5 of the update report on Biofuels  . For EMPA, Aug 2012. Full PDF report (4.1 MB PDF).


• "Waste management in ecoinvent v.3"
  Presentation at the 46th Discussion Forum LCA  , Zürich, 6th December 2011 PDF slides (1.7 MB).


• Canadian Landfill LCI model
  Development of waste-specific calculation tools for Canadian landfills
  For confidential contractor, 2010


• "LCI of the disposal of lignite spoil, coal spoil and coal tailings"
  For the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Nov 2009. With corrections of April 2010 and March 2021: Final report (1.6 MB PDF).


• Thailand LCI database waste incineration models
  Development of waste-specific calculation tools for municipal and cement kiln incineration for the National LCI database of Thailand 
  Co-author with Shabbir H. Gheewala, Chalita Liamsanguan, Pariyapat Nilsalab of the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok. 2009


• "Non-radiological emissions from uranium tailings: A generic, global model for Life Cycle Inventory data"
  For the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, finalised draft report 2008. Report (6.6 MB PDF).
  See also newspaper article (in German) of 14th Dec 2008, Aargauer Zeitung Sonntag


• "Life Cycle Inventory data of mining waste: Emissions from sulfidic tailings disposal"
  For BAFU/FOEN, April 2008. PDF.


• "A Simple Model to Include Human Excretion and Wastewater Treatment in Life Cycle Assessment of Food Products "
  Co-author with Ivan Munoz, Llorenc Mila i Canals and Roland Clift, Centre for Environmental Strategy CES, Report 01/07, 2007. PDF


• "Ecological and economical optima of material recycling"
  With Patrick Hofstetter. For the 3rd International Conference on Life Cycle Management 2007, Zurich. Proceedings and PDF slides (7.7 MB)


• "Assessing Long-term Effects of Municipal Solid Waste"
  For the 1st BOKU waste conference 2005 Vienna. proceedings (PDF) and slides (PDF)


• "Waste Treatment and Assessment of Long-Term Emissions"
  Paper on the ecoinvent waste disposal processes, with Roland Hischier
  Int. J. LCA, 10 LCA (1) 2005, p. 77-84. PDF


• Ecoinvent landfill models
  Presentation at the 22nd discussion forum LCA  , 2004. PDF slides


• Ecoinvent waste treatment models
  Presentation at the 21st discussion forum LCA  , 2003. PDF slides


• Ecoinvent report: landfill models
  Excerpt of the ecoinvent report 13 (without inventories) 2003. PDF


• Ecoinvent report No. 13, part I: General Introduction - Waste Material Compositions - Municipal Waste Collection
  Ecoinvent report for v1.3 (2003) PDF


• Ecoinvent report No. 13, part II: Waste Incineration
  Ecoinvent report for v1.3 (2003) PDF


• Ecoinvent report No. 13, part III: Landfills - Underground Deposits - Landfarming
  Ecoinvent report for v1.3 (2003) PDF


• Ecoinvent report No. 13, part IV: Wastewater Treatment
  Ecoinvent report for v1.3 (2003) PDF


• Ecoinvent report No. 13, part V: Building Material Disposal
  Ecoinvent report for v1.3 (2003) PDF


• "Assessing the Eco-efficiency of End-of-Pipe Technologies with the Environmental Cost Efficiency Indicator"
  Published paper with Stefanie Hellweg and Goran Finnveden. Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 9 Issue 4, Pages 189 - 203, 2005.
  Final draft PDF. In part based on my PECK study below.


• LCA of a novel waste incineration technology (PECK)
  For ETH Zurich, Final Report, 2002. PDF


• "Subjective Valuation: the example of long-term emissions in the Life Cycle Assessment of waste disposal systems"
  Presentation at the R'02 conference, 2002. PDF slides, PDF proceedings


• Landfill integration in LCA - Status and Outlook
  Presentation for Working Group 3 "End of Life" of COST Action E9  (Life Cycle Assessment of Forestry and Forest Products), 1999.

Various systems

• Life Cycle Inventory of generic uranium in-situ leaching
  Commissioned by Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, November 2011. PDF


• Critical Review of Diploma Thesis on LCA of CO₂ Transport and Sequestration part of CCS
  Commissioned by Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, September 2007. Review (PDF 1.6MB) to this Diploma Thesis (PDF 5.1 MB) by Caroline Wildbolz


• "The Environmental Relevance of Capital Goods in Life Cycle Assessments of Products and Services"
  Co-author, published paper, International Journal of LCA, OnlineFirst: February 21th, 2007. PDF


• "Manufacturing and Disposal of Building Materials and Inventorying Infrastructure in ecoinvent "
  Co-author with Hans-Jörg Althaus, Daniel Kellenberger, and Tina Künniger
  published paper, International Journal of LCA, OnlineFirst: November 5th, 2004, p. 1-7. PDF paper


• "Life Cycle Assessment of ISO-protect polypropylene structured-core panel (PP) compared to oriented strand board (OSB) for building fence applications"
  For Composits AG,Zurich und Triplex GmbH, Germany. Confidential, 2008.


• "Yield losses in electronics production are significant to LCA"
  Comment in 13th discussion forum LCA  , 2001. Text and PDF slides


• "Ecological behavior and its environmental consequences: a life cycle assessment of a self-report measure"
  Co-author with Florian Kaiser, Patrick Hofstetter and Michael Ranney, published paper, Journal of Environmental Psychology 23 (2003) 11-20. PDF text and Excel appendix


• "Environmental Inventories for Future Electricity Supply Systems for Switzerland"
  Co-author, with Paul Scherrer Institute PSI  for the Swiss Association of Producers and Distributors of Electricity (VSE) 1996. PDF


• English Guide to the ETH-ESU LCI database
  for ETH Zurich, 1994. PDF (3.5 MB scan)

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