Studies on life cycle assessment and Exergy based environmental tax for Thermal engineering appliances

Abstract

The world is facing a very great threat of unprecedented climate newlinechanges like temperature rise rise in sea level cyclones storms etc mainly newlinedue to global warming and ozone layer depletion Kyoto Protocol and newlineMontreal Protocol are aimed at restricting the emissions of green house gases newlinechlorofluorocarbons CFCs etc which are the main causes for global newlinewarming and ozone depletion The environmental status of India has also been degrading in the newlinerecent past due to the fast growing population industrialization and newlinemodernization of life style Most of the Scandinavian countries have already newlineintroduced carbon tax proportional to the carbon content of the fuel Since newlineIndia s economy is coal based carbon tax is not viable for a developing newlinecountry like India Hence environmental taxes based on Life Cycle newlineAssessment LCA and exergy is proposed for India A domestic refrigerator newlineone of the most commonly used Thermal Engineering Appliances has been newlineselected for the case study LCA of the refrigerator from the environmental pollution point of newlineview has been carried out and the total emissions in terms of CO2 SO2 and newlineNOx are calculated newline newline