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  • Environmental Science
  • Ecological Economics
  • Environmental Engineering

Background:

  • Emergy-based evaluation (EME) is crucial for assessing ecological performance.
  • Existing methods for EME, including conventional procedures and the Solar Energy Demand (SED) method, have limitations.
  • The emergy calculation software SCALE (EMESCALE) offers a novel approach to EME.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the ecological performance evaluation of four water treatment plants (WTPs) using three distinct EME approaches.
  • To analyze the quantitative differences in unit emergy values (UEVs) derived from EMESCALE, conventional EME (EMECONV), and SED.
  • To identify the strengths and limitations of the EMESCALE software for EME.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the emergy calculation software SCALE (EMESCALE) for EME.
  • Compared EMESCALE results with a conventional emergy evaluation procedure (EMECONV).
  • Compared EMESCALE results with the Solar Energy Demand (SED) method.

Main Results:

  • EMESCALE provides a more detailed representation of technological processes via the ecoinvent® database, enhancing reproducibility, accuracy, and completeness.
  • Quantitative comparison of UEVs for technospheric inputs revealed differences across the three methods.
  • EMESCALE currently excludes non-technospheric inputs (human labor, ecosystem services) and has limitations in its UEV dataset for natural resources.

Conclusions:

  • EMESCALE demonstrates significant added value for detailed and accurate EME of WTPs.
  • Further software development is recommended to incorporate non-technospheric inputs and refine natural resource UEVs.
  • Preliminary quantitative methods for including ecosystem services and human labor in emergy accounting are suggested.