Life Cycle Assessment of Turbine Blade

Abstract

Life-cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life-cycle analysis, eco-balance, and cradle-to-grave analysis, is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from cradle to grave. The types of methods available for LCA. This paper aims to study in detail about the methodology that may be implemented to understand and estimate the effects of manufacturing variability on the manufactured components. An approach for dimensionality reduction is employed that uses prior knowledge on the measurement error obtained from analyzing repeated measurements. The proposed methodology also helps in capturing the effects of manufacturing drift with time and the blade to blade manufacturing error.