Análisis de ciclo de vida (ACV) de la chocolatina Lover's : un estudio en la empresa CasaLuker de Bogotá D.C.
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2022-07-12Registro en:
Bernal Castañeda, J. S. y López Vargas, J. D. (2022). Análisis de ciclo de vida (ACV) de la chocolatina Lover's: un estuddio en la empresa CasaLuker de Bogotá D.C. [Trabajo de grado, Universidad Santo Tomás]. Repositorio institucional.
reponame:Repositorio Institucional Universidad Santo Tomás
instname:Universidad Santo Tomás
Autor
Bernal Castañeda, Jennie Sofia
López Vargas, Juan David
Institución
Resumen
This work aimed to identify and evaluate the environmental impacts generated in the production of the Lover's chocolate bar in the CasaLuker company, to establish prevention, mitigation, and control measures for those impacts. For this, the Life
Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology, based in the NTC ISO 14040-2006, was implemented, for which it was necessary to collect information on all the unit processes identified from obtaining cocoa, as raw material, to the end of the useful
life of the product, final disposal. These data were processed by performing mass and energy balances, adjusting the information to the corresponding functional unit; Following this, the data was entered into the SimaPro version 9.2.0.2 software to
carry out the environmental evaluation, which was carried out using the EPD method (2018), which has eight impact categories, which were evaluated in their entirety.
Finally, it was found that the stages that present the greatest contribution in all impact categories are conching (injection, mold washing), packaging, boiler, and transport to final distribution, due to the high production of greenhouse gases by the process.
consumption of fossil fuels, also due to the considerable contribution of CO2 from the use of natural gas and all the related impacts in the processes for obtaining the packaging and the refined sugar necessary in the conching process. In addition, the
categories that presented the greatest contribution of total environmental impacts is abiotic depletion with 3.83E+01 MJ, the one with the lowest contribution was depletion of the ozone layer with 2.70E-07kg CFC11, and the most relevant impact
category for this study it was global warming with a total of 2.05E+00 kg CO2 eq.