Life Cycle Associates, LLC provides a wide array of business and environmental consulting services, including the assessment of fuel production pathways on a well to wheels basis, economic analysis of energy systems, process engineering analysis of fuel production systems, development of GHG reduction strategies, review and development of business opportunities, and sustainable resource management.

 

“Well-to-Wheels” (Fuel Cycle) Analysis

Calculation of lifecycle greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions from the production and use of transportation fuels:

• Net energy balance
• Emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxics
• Customizations to established LCA models such as GREET and GHGenius
• Analyses of specific and novel fuel pathways
• Development of custom user interfaces and other software tools
• Economic modeling of displacement effects and co-products
• Analysis of land use impacts
• Fuel Certification under RFS 2, LCFS, RED, RSB

 

 

Process Analysis

Detailed analysis of energy systems and processes provides the basis of life cycle and economic analyses:

• Mass and energy balance
• Process flow analysis
• Process waste recovery
• Emissions and economic impacts of fuel switching

 

 

Economic Analysis

Our life cycle and economic modeling can help guide your capital investment decisions to compete in a carbon constrained economy. We provide economic analyses of energy systems, including:

• Process analysis improvement
• Pro-forma investment analysis
• Cost-effectiveness analysis
• Investment strategy

 

 

GHG Strategy

Development of strategies to lower emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants from your production process:

• Strategies for meeting carbon regulations
• Evaluation of compliance opportunities and costs
• Development of carbon finance options
• Renewable offset strategies

 

 

Business Strategy

Review and develop business opportunities for new fuel technologies.

• Due diligence
• Laboratory and process analysis review
• Scale up analysis
• Economic comparison
• Business plan review
• Market analysis
• Competitor analysis
• Project team building
• Government funding strategies
• Proposal preparation

 

 

Sustainable Resource Management

We examine a wide range of environmental indicators in our life cycle analysis.  In addition to energy inputs and GHG emissions, our LCA database calculates criteria pollutants, toxic air contaminants, water use, water discharges, land conversion, and potential biodiversity impacts on a life cycle basis.  Interpretation of sustainability metrics is possible with a variety of weighting factors.