Ivan Muñoz started working in life cycle assessment (LCA) in 1998. In his Ph.D. on environmental science (UAB, 2006) he focused his research on the suitability of LCA as a tool for Green Chemistry. He has been research fellow in several universities: ESCI-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), Centro de Investigaciones de la Energia Solar-University of Almeria (Spain) and Centre for Environmental Strategy-University of Surrey (UK). From 2009 to 2013 he worked in the UK for the consumer goods company Unilever. Ivan has worked on LCA for ecodesign, solid waste management, water and wastewater treatment, agriculture, and food production, applying not only LCA but other related tools like environmental risk assessment, life cycle costing and water footprinting. He is currently the subject editor for Green Chemistry in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment and a member of the Editorial Board of Ecoinvent.
Contributed publications
Muñoz I – 2024 Literature review on climate effects and leakage rates in a hydrogen economy. 2.-0 LCA consultants, Aalborg, Denmark.
Weidema B P, Schmidt J, Muñoz I – 2024 The indirect global warming potential of methane oxidation in the IPCC’s sixth assessment report. Environmental Research Letters 19(12)
Muñoz I, Weidema B P – 2024 Ethylene and propylene production from steam cracking in Europe: a consequential perspective. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 29:745–758
Muñoz I – 2021 Country-specific life cycle inventories for human excretion of food products. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 26:1794-1804
Muñiz M M, Chantin M, R C, Vintila RC, Fabritius M, Martin C, Calvo L, Poudelet L, Canou J, Uhart M, Papacharalampopoulos A, Stavropoulos P, Olsson N O E, Tenorio J A, Madrid J A, Dirrenberger J, Muñoz I – 2021 Concrete hybrid manufacturing: A machine architecture. Procedia CIRP 97:51-58
Muñoz I, Alonso-Madrid J, Menéndez-Muñiz M, Uhart M, Canou J, Martin C, Fabritius M, Calvo L, Poudelet L, Cardona R, Lombois-Burger H, Vlasopoulos N, Bouyssou C, Dirrenberger J, Papacharalampopoulos A, Stavropoulos P – 2021 Life cycle assessment of integrated additive–subtractive concrete 3D printing. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 112:2149–2159
Muñoz I, Aktürk AS, Ayyıldız Ö, Çağlar Ö, Meabe E, Contreras S, Toscano A, Tornée V, Llopart N, San Romà C, Ferrer O, Jiménez-Banzo A – 2020 Life cycle assessment of wastewater reclamation in a petroleum refinery in Turkey. Journal of Cleaner Production, 26:121967 (11 pages)
Muñoz I, Soto A, Maza D, Bayón F – 2020 Life cycle assessment of refractory waste management in a Spanish steel works. Waste Management 111:1-9
Muñoz I – 2019 Towards global LCI data on urban wastewater discharges. Presentation at SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting, Helsinki, 26-30 May 2019
Muñoz I, Portillo F, Rosiek S, Batlles F J, Martínez-Del-Río J, Acasuso I, Piergrossi V, De Sanctis M, Chimienti S, Di Iaconi C – 2019 Prospective environmental and economic assessment of solar-assisted thermal energy recovery from wastewater through a sequencing batch biofilter granular reactor. Journal of Cleaner Production 212:1300-1309
Muñoz I, Weidema P, Bala A, Fullana P – 2018 Social footprint of a deposit-refund system for packaging waste in Spain. Presentation for 28th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, Rome, 13-17 May 2018
Muñoz I, Rodríguez C, Gillet D, Moerschbacher B M – 2018 Life cycle assessment of chitosan production in India and Europe. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23:1151–1160
Kalbar, P P, Muñoz I, Birkved M – 2018 WW LCI v2: A second-generation life cycle inventory model for chemicals discharged to wastewater systems. Science of The Total Environment 622-623:1649-1657
Muñoz I – 2017 Consequential LCI modeling of chemicals in wastewater: including avoided nutrient treatment. Presentation for SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, 27-28 November 2017
Muñoz I, Rodríguez C, Gillet D, Moerschbacher B M – 2017 Life cycle assessment of chitin and chitosan production in India and Europe. Presentation for XIII EUCHIS/VIII SIAQ conference, Seville, 31st May to 3rd June 2017
Muñoz I, Otte N, Van Hoof G, Rigarlsford G – 2017 A model and tool to calculate life cycle inventories of chemicals discharged down the drain. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22(6):986–1004
Kalbar P, Birkved M, Muñoz I – 2017 A second-generation life cycle inventory model for chemicals discharged to wastewater. Presentation for SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting, Brussels, 7-11 May 2017
Weidema B P, de Saxcé M, Muñoz I – 2016 Environmental impacts of alcoholic beverages – as distributed by the Nordic Alcohol Monopolies 2014. 2.-0 LCA consultants, Aalborg, 30th December 2016
Muñoz I, Van Hoof G, Rigarlsford G – 2016 LCI model and tool for chemicals discharged down the drain. Case study on detergent formulations. Presentation for the 22nd SETAC Europe LCA Case Study Symposium, Montpellier, 20-22 September 2016
Muñoz I, Otte N, Van Hoof G, Rigarlsford G – 2016 A model and tool to calculate life cycle inventories of chemicals discharged down the drain. Presentation for 26th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, Nantes, 22-26 May 2016
Muñoz I, Schmidt J – 2016 Methane oxidation, biogenic carbon, and the IPCC’s emission metrics. Proposal for a consistent greenhouse-gas accounting. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 21:1069–1075
Muñoz I, Schmidt J, de Saxcé M, Dalgaard R, Merciai S – 2015 Inventory of country specific electricity in LCA – consequential scenarios. Version 3.0. Report of the 2.-0 LCA Energy Club. 2.-0 LCA consultants, Aalborg
Muñoz I, de Vries E, Wittebol J, Aamand J – 2015 Prospective environmental and economic assessment for biotreatment of micropollutants in drinking water resources in Denmark. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 15(6):1405-1413
Muñoz I, Schmidt J, Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2015 Rebuttal to ‘Indirect land use change (iLUC) within life cycle assessment (LCA) – scientific robustness and consistency with international standards’. GCB Bioenergy, Letter to editor 7(4):565-566
Muñoz I, de Vries E, Wittebol J – 2015 Challenges in applying LCA at the research stage: case study on biotreatment of pollutants in drinking water resources. Extended abstract for presentation at the SETAC2015, Barcelona 3-7 May 2015
Dalgaard R, Muñoz I – 2014 Consequential and attributional modeling in life cycle assessment of food production systems. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference LCA of Food San Francisco, USA 8-10 October 2014
Muñoz I, Schmidt J, Dalgaard R – 2014 Comparative life cycle assessment of five different vegetable oils. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference LCA of Food San Francisco, USA 8-10 October 2014
Muñoz I, Schmidt J, Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2014 Avoiding the streetlight effect: Rebuttal to ‘Indirect land use change (iLUC) within life cycle assessment (LCA) – scientific robustness and consistency with international standards’ by prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner. 2.-0 LCA consultants, Skibbrogade 5, 1, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark
Schmidt J, Muñoz I – 2014 The carbon footprint of Danish production and consumption – Literature review and model calculations. Danish Energy Agency, Copenhagen