THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Faculty of Engineering

GSOE9340 – Life Cycle Engineering

Assignment One - Term 2-2025

Assignment weight: 30%

Due date: Friday, Week 4, 27 June 2024 by 11:59pm

reference year is estimated to be 52.069 Gt

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to develop an understanding of the first step

of operationalizing the framework for LCE, which is the total space allocationfor the

selected industry, organisation and a product based on allocation principles discussed in

week2. This will increase your familiarity with howthe environmental space is allocated

to achieve the 2°C reduction goal,and the relevant reduction pathways towards

decarbonization. As a result of completing this assignment, you will be able to determine

the environmental space allocatedorthe emission budget of your industry and product, and

the reduction required to meet the 2°C reduction goal.

Task:The assignment will require week 1 and week 2 lectures. Therefore, you should

attempt the following tasks by using bothweek’s lecture materials. Before you attempt the

following tasks, find an industry sector,a companyand a product that you want to

investigate, ideally from your technical background.It is also critical to rememberthat the

assignments throughout the term will be a rolling one, therefore, the chosen product will

be used for assignments 2 and 3 as well. The global emission for climatechangein 2020

CO

2

eq/year and the safe operating space for

the planet by 2050 (SoS

Planet

) needs to be 8.327 GtCO

2

eq/year based on IPCCs SSP1-1.9

scenario (IPCC, 2018). By using this and the chosen product and the company:

1. Determine SoS for the sector (SoS

sector

), the company (SoS

company

) by using

one of the allocation principles discussed in the week 2 lecture for the

reference year 2020 after clearly justifying the choice of allocation principle

(7 points).

2. By using another allocation principle from the week 2 lecture notes,

determine the SoS for your chosen product (SoS

product

) for the reference year

2020 after clearly justifying the choice of allocation principle (7 points).

3. Determine the estimated volume growth / year of your chosen organization

and the product from 2020 to 2050 by using the publicly available data. You

may use simple regression analysis to do this by using past data if the data is

not available. Resulting growth should be shown as a graph after providing

data set or regression model used (5 points).

4. Determine the change in the SoS

product

from 2020 to 2050 and show a graph

after providing data set or regression model used (4 points).

5. Comment on the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen SoS allocation

method and discuss potential implications for your organization, sector and

for the planet (7 points).

Note:

• You may make assumptions if you need one after clearly stating them.

• All tasks are not equal value.

NOTE: Everything needs to be clearly documented. If it is not in your report, it does NOT

exist. Your intention is not evidence for the task. The results need to be reproducible.

Therefore, it is important to provide:

• a detailed references for the background data used and demonstrating rigorous data

analysis.

• a formula for the allocation methods used for both chosen organisation and product

and how calculation is made.

• a formula for volume prediction, predicted volumes for each year and estimation of

• volume growth annually and how calculation is made.

• Providing a graph to show the change in the SoS

product

• Providing all calculations, in addition to graphs, so that the results can be replicated.