LCA Working Group

Sigillo di Ateneo

Topic suggestions for theses

The following topics are available for theses:

1) Life cycle assessment of a thermonuclear plant.

2)  Structural assessment and evaluation of a biomedical device.

3) Proposal for a sustainable model to be applied to a low income country.

4) Life cycle assessment of human activities in Italy.

5) LCA methodology applied to urban traffic: environmental and economic assessment of the current situation and proposal for improvement.

6) Life cycle assessment of a hazardous waste.

7) LCA methodology applied to the environmental and economic assessment of a product (agri-food, industrial, electronic, chemical, etc.) with the aim of obtaining an environmental certification.

8) LCA methodology applied to a service: environmental and economic assessment of a service (school, hospital, canteen, transport vehicle, etc.) also aimed at obtaining an environmental certification.

9) LCA methodology applied to the production of an agri-food product (cereal, milk, cheese, wine, sugar, oil, meat, etc.). Environmental and economic assessment of conventional and organic production.

10) Environmental and economic assessment of a Local Plan for Waste Management using the life cycle assessment methodology. 

11) Life cycle assessment of a waste to be incinerated.

12) Life cycle assessment of a waste to be buried in a landfill.

13) Design of a low environmental impact building: An energy and environmental analysis.

14) Low environmental impact building renovation: An energy and environmental analysis.

15) Determining the characteristics of pollutants with the aim of defining a method for life cycle assessment in Italy.

16) Determining the characteristics of damages to the local area caused by human activities, so as to define a method for  life cycle assessment in Italy.

17) Minerals and fossil fuel consumption evaluation in Italy: Assessment of the damages caused by their exhaustion and application to life cycle assessment of a resource.

18)  Evaluation of  energy and environmental benefits of a biomass by using the life cycle assessment methodology.