Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
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Tool Summary Tool Characteristics Tool Application Source of Tools Opinion of Tools

Tool application

Name of the tool
Indicators for the sustainability assessment of wastewater treatment systems

Who applied the tool in the case?
N/A

Time taken to fully apply the tool
This tool is beleived to be unused so far.

Any other interesting information about the tool
Comments on the approach "Sustainability assessment using indicators":
1/ Goal and scope definition: definition of the system boundaries (according to the scale of the wastewater treatment systems) and sustainability indicators (functional indicators - like minimal required effluent quality…- , economic indicators, environmental indicators, social-cultural indicators - like acceptance, institutional requirements…- ).
2/ Inventory analysis: the sustainability indicators are quantified or indicated qualitatively. In this part, tools like mass/energy balance, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis and factor analysis can be used.
3/ Optimisation: All the tools are combined in an integrated assessment and this makes the selection of the sustainable wastewater treatment systems a multi-objective optimisation problem.

Case study/ies where tool is in use