LCA evaluation of RaceUp Team MG15

Environmental pollution and climate change are two issues of particular importance, towards which public opinion has been increasing attention in recent decades, also because the consequences of these phenomena, such as frequent storms, are clearly visible. The main purpose of the research is to illustrate the method of assessing the environmental impact of a process with an analysis called Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In the first part of this report, the LCA analysis is presented in a general way, it description and methodological framework, with a brief description of all its phases and procedures. In the second part, a LCA analysis will be done for the new internal combustion engine promoted by Race Up Team of University of Padova, MG15. Unfortunately, data collection has been a limitation when carrying out a detailed study, so that the results obtained are the beginning of an object of study in the future In the third and final part, a report on the reordering of data relating to a Formula SAE vehicle of the Race-Up team of the University of Padua is reported, with the aim of comparing results obtained with the ones obtained in a previous car, developed in 2013.