Environmental Analysis
Initial Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Winery
Fig. 1: Base Simapro LCA, without Solutions, 0% cutoff
LCA Modeling using Simapro
- GHG emissions measured in CO2e for one bottle of wine
- Data taken from Simapro database or published literature
- Analyzed with TRACI 2.1 v1.03 Environmental method
Environmental Breakdown of Winery - without solutions
Total: 6180g CO2e
Fig. 2: Base LCA Environmental Breakdown for single wine bottle, without solutions, 2.5% cutoff
GHG Drivers
- Land clearing, specifically burning chopped lumber (74%)
- Glass in bottles (3% from glass, 1% from transportation)
- Electricity used in wine production (3%)
- Using grass as a cover crop helped reduce emissions from Land Use Change (11%)
Fig. 3: Emission Process Breakdown of Simapro Wine Assembly (Base)
Fig. 4: Emission Type Breakdown of Simapro Wine Assembly (Base)
Life Cycle Assessment of Winery - with Solutions
Fig. 5: Year 30 Simapro LCA with solution implementations, 0% cutoff
This Life Cycle Assesment modeled in Simapro is one of our final deliverables in the project, and can be used to do much more than make flow and pie charts, although its usefulness in calculating where GHG emissions are coming from is easily apparent from them. The model can be updated over the course of implementation, as some of the assumptions become hard numbers (i.e. approximate number of miles glass bottle is transported to get to/from the winery). All of the processes in the model have been backed up by literature that is sourced in the program as well, so anyone who works on it can confirm/update the numbers behind each process (i.e. how much CO2e emissions are released producing each glass bottle).