Análisis de Ciclo de Vida de la Quinua (Chenopodium Quinoa) producida en la provincia de Imbabura
FAO considers Quinoa as a cereal with high nutritional potential and is therefore recognized in the contribution of food security; Due to this, it has been necessary to study its environmental performance. Therefore, the present investigation studied the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of the Quinoa (Chen...
| Autor Principal: | Criollo Oña, Klever Alberto |
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| Otros Autores: | Salamea Romero, Carolina Elizabeth |
| Formato: | bachelorThesis |
| Idioma: | spa |
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2018
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http://dspace.ups.edu.ec/handle/123456789/15242 |
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FAO considers Quinoa as a cereal with high nutritional potential and is therefore recognized in the contribution of food security; Due to this, it has been necessary to study its environmental performance. Therefore, the present investigation studied the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of the Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) in the province of Imbabura-Ecuador.
The ISO 14040 standard was taken as a guide, comprising four phases: definition of the objective and scope, inventory analysis, impact evaluation and interpretation of results. Data were collected through interviews, observations and laboratory analysis, the data obtained were tabulated in Excel for its treatment; The SimaPro Software was used for the impact evaluation; and for the interpretation of results, uncertainty analysis was used.
For the analysis, the IMPACT 2002, Eco-indicator 99 and CML methods were considered, considering as impact indicators, acidification, aquatic ecotoxicity, eutrophication, global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, human toxicity and terrestrial ecotoxicity. As overall results, the effects were obtained in the IMPACT 2002 method in the terrestrial ecotoxicity category 11.35 kg TEG soil; in the CML method in the global warming category with 3.99 kg CO2 eq and finally in the Eco-indicator 99 method in the acidification/eutrophication category with 0.146 PDF * m2yr.
The importance of evaluating the LCA of a product/service is that it allows estimating environmental impacts, from its initial process to its final process, and how to act to reduce them; encouraging and promoting the sustainable production of national products. |
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