LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF SEWAGE

TREATMENT PLANT AT ADHARWADI, KALYAN

Under Guidance of Dr. Vikas Varekar
Submitted by
Nandini Bhosale(201011015) Pratiksha Patil (201011037)
Vaishnavi Baviskar(201011028) Rutuja waghmare(201011039)
CONTENT

Introduction
Scope of work
Objectives
Literature Review
Methodology
Summary
Reference
INTRODUCTION

STRUCTURE DETAILS
The Kalyan Sewage Treatment Plant is situated on the outskirts of the city and serves as a critical
facility for treating wastewater from the surrounding residential and industrial areas. The plant
employs the Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR) technology, a modern and efficient method for
wastewater treatment.
The Adharwadi plant has a capacity of treating 25 MLD of sewage .
 WHAT IS LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

● A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is defined as the systematic analysis of the potential
environmental impacts of products or services during their entire life cycle.
● It is an instrument that identifies,describe and assesses the expected effect that
cause the realization of the project on various environmental issues.
● During a Life Cycle Assessment (Life Cycle Analysis), you evaluate the potential
environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle of a product (production,
distribution, use and end-of-life phases) or service. This also includes the upstream
(e.g., suppliers) and downstream (e.g., waste management) processes associated with
the production (e.g., production of raw, auxiliary and operating materials), use phase,
and disposal (e.g., waste incineration)
Fig:- Life Cycle Assessment
SCOPE OF WORK
To utilize local primary data obtained directly from STP as the main data source.
To determine the environmental impact of STP using different databases and verify the
validity of results obtained.
To determine total primal energy required considering both the renewable and non-
renewable energy of STP constructed with energy efficiency measures in various
combinations.
To focus on all phases of a STP life cycle account for complete energy consumption and
emissions by the construction operation.
To develop a methodology that can accommodate variable STP characteristics as well as
provide insightinto uncertainty in the results.
OBJECTIVES OF WORK

To collect the data requiredfor life cycle assessment of STP Aadharwadi, Kalyan
To perform Life Cycle assessment of Aadharwadi STP to determine environmental
impact, sustainability and energy flows associated with different phases of lifecycle using
LCA software with obtaineddata.
To analyze the results of the LCA and interpret the findings using different software’s.
To compare output in carbon footprint results from softwares such as SimaPro , Athena
Impact Estiamtor , etc.
LITERATURE REVIEW

Name Of Author Title Findings

and Year

Energy efficiency in Quantified the potential savings, both in economic terms

F. Hernandez-
Spanish wastewater and in terms of CO2 emissions, that could be expected
Sancho(2011)
treatment plants from an improvement in energy efficiency of WWTPs

Discussed about evaluation of environmental life cycle of

Evaluation of the
Karina Guedes Cubas an STP that uses low-rate trickling filter as a post
environmental life cycle of
do Amaral (2001) an STP
treatment of up flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB)
reactor and different sludge management activities
LITERATURE REVIEW

Name Of Author Title Findings

and Year

Modelling and Life Cycle Evaluated performance of a plant based on the 345 MLD
Narendra Pal Goleand Assessment of Sewage Up flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) technology by
Anand Patel (2021) Treatment Plant (STP) in analyzing the physical and chemical parameters of the
Lucknow City water treated by UASB

Life cycle assessment of

comparing different nutrient
The report states that Nutrient recovery systems can help
recovery systems from
Sarath C. et al.(2023) in minimizing negative effects of Nitrogen and
municipal wastewater: A
path towards self-reliance Phosphorus in wastewater.
and sustainability
METHODOLOGY
METHODOLOGY

Goal and scope:-

In detail, the goal and scope of LCA consist of the objectives, system boundary,
and functional unit.
The objectives consist of the environmental analysis, the technology
comparison, and their effect on the environment or the analysis of life cycle
inventory and methodology to various impact categories.
The system boundary determines which unit process shall be included in LCA
analysissuch as construction stage, operation, sludge treatment and disposal,
and demolition phase.
METHODOLOGY
Life Cycle Inventory:-

After the goal and scope are determined, the second step in a LCA is data
collection and inventory build-up, a crucial stage when performing an LCA study.
In general, life cycle inventory (LCI) aims to identify the inputs (resources), the
outputs (effluent and waste), and the respective amounts of emissions over the
entire life cycle of the specific process.
Generally, it is given in physical units such as kilogram (kg), cubic meter (m3 ),
and kilowatt–hour (kWh). Wastewater treatment data inventory includes the
foreground as the primary data (operation), which is usually compiled from the
operational record, detailed design document, sampling works, and vendor-
supplied information.
By contrast, background data (secondary input) such as energy production and
chemical production are normally provided by the LCI data
METHODOLOGY
LifeCycle Impact Assessment :-

Prior to the calculation of the environmental impacts, the assessment methodology must
be selected to give direction to the category of impact required, such as the midpoint level
or the endpoint level.
Several different methodologies are available to identify related impact categories in the
LCA such as Eco-Indicator99.
For the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase in every method, the inventory data
(LCI) emitted to air, water, and soil compartments are multiplied with their
characterization factor (CF) to convert to environmental impacts in various categories, as
shown in Equation :
LCIA = LCI × CF E.g., Freshwater Ecotoxicity Potential (FEP) = (LCI air × CF air) +
(LCI water × CF water) + (LCI soil × CF soil) (unit: kg1,4-dBeq.)
Characterization factors (CFs) of inventory data or pollutants are provided to
practitioners either in the literature or by the software used.
METHODOLOGY
Interpretation:-

The final stage of LCA methodology is interpretation. This final stage can identify and
evaluate information from the result of the life cycle impact assessment because it can
determine the level of confidence in the final results. It starts with an understanding of
the accuracy of the result and how it meets the goal of the study.
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:- Step1
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:-
Once you defined a product assembly, SimaPro can immediately calculate the inventory
(LCI) results. This is a list of all raw material extractions and emissions that occur in the
production of the assembly and the materials and processes that link to it.

SimaPro allows you to specify the results as one table or per compartment, such as
airborne or waterborne emissions. This can be defined in the top left corner of the next
window. The tables can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:-Step2
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:-
Although the inventory results provide the most detail, it is not easy to interpretate
these long lists of substances. The environmental relevance of each raw material
extraction or emission is unclear.

ISO 14042 specifies a number of procedures for on impact assessment that can be used
to better understand the inventory results. In this Guided tour, we show you these step
by step.

Click 'Next' to see a graph that shows the environmental impact category results. These
are calculated from the inventory results. This step is called characterisation in LCA, it
is an obligatory step in impact
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:- Step3
All effects are scaled to 100%. Each column represents the impacts arising from
different subassemblies in the production stage of model Sima.

Each bar in the graph could represent 100% of a very large impact. or equally
100% of a small one. For a better picture, we need a more useful scale of
measurement. This procedure is called Normalisation. Normalisation is an
optional step in impact assessment and can be described as a kind of
benchmarking.
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:- Step4
Click 'Next' and SimaPro displays the same results but normalised to the environmental
effects that are caused .Thus, impacts are now compared on a scale of inhabitant
equivalents. This gives much more insight in the size of the various environmental
effects.
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:- Step5
Click on the Next button to see the "weighting" graph. In this graph, a weighting factor
has been applied to each of the normalisation results. This scales the results to a certain
level of seriousness.
Weighting is a subjective step. According to ISO 14042. weighting may not be used in
case of public comparisons between products.
The weighting values used here are the default values of the ReCiPe Endpoint (H)
method. SimaPro is shipped with a number of impact assessment methods. Some
support weighting, some do not. All data in the impact assessment methods, including
weighting factors, can be copied and edited by the user.
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:-
Before we proceed, it is important to define a functional unit. For instance, we must
know how frequently and how long the machine is used. Usually this is not known
exactly, so you need to make some assumptions. Later, you need to analyse the
sensitivity of these assumptions on the results.
METHODOLOGY
SimaPro Software:-
 SUMMARY
The LCA of a building provides valuable insights into the environmental performance of
different design choices, materials, and technologies. It can help identify opportunities
for reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and resource use, as well as
improving indoor air quality and occupant comfort. It is crucial to give sustainability top
priority in all parts of our lives, including the design and maintenance of buildings, as we
struggle with the problemsof climate change,resource depletion, and ecological
deterioration, environmental protection, resourceprotection, preserving biodiversity for
health and well-being, and saving over time on costs.
 REFERENCE
F. Hernández-Sancho, M. Molinos-Senante, R. Sala-Garrido, 2011 Energy efficiency in Spanish wastewater
treatment plants: A non-radial DEA approach.

Karina Guedes Cubas do Amaral, Julio Cezar Rietow, Miguel Mansur Aisse, 2021: Evaluation of the
environmental life cycle of an STP that employs a low-rate trickling filter as post-treatment of a UASB reactor
and different sludge-management alternatives.

Narendra Pal Goleand Anand Patel (2021) elaborated a key objective of their research was to evaluate the
performance of a plant based on the 345 MLD Up flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) technology by
analyzing the physical and chemical parameters of the water treated by UASB .

Sarath C. Gowd a, Pradeep Ramesh b, V.S. Vigneswaran a, Selvaraj Barathi c, Jintae lee c, Karthik Rajendran,
2023: Life cycle assessment of comparing different nutrient recovery systems from municipal wastewater: A
path towards self-reliance and sustainability.
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