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Determination of resourses (minerals and fossil fuels) caracterization factors to build an italian Life Cycle Method. application of caracterization’s factor to a resource

Object of study is the environmental analysis of VF1 sink of oil extraction in Trecate (MI).

Study has been executed in collaboration with ENEA (National Research Institute for Energy and Environment) and University of Parma and ENI company.

The methodology is the LIFE CYCLE ASSESTMENT(LCA) and the software for analysis of environmental impact is SIMAPRO 5.0.

The damage evaluation is obtained by ECO INDICATOR 99, EPS 2000, EDIP 96 and EDIP 96 resources only methods.

Moreover it has been carried out a search on production, consumption and reservoirs of the resources oil, coal and natural gas in the world, Europe and Italy in order to define a damage evaluation usable only for the industrialized countries.

The work ends by a comparison between the real process of extraction and the one of Eco- Invent data base. Final results of analysis are that the highest damage is the one caused by oil ENI process in particular owing to the exhaustion of the resources.