Tool applicationName 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.
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