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UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Machine Learning for Addressing Data Deficiencies in Life Cycle Assessment Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vc7t19w Author Song, Runsheng Publication Date 2019 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Machine Learning for Addressing Data Deficiencies in Life Cycle Assessment A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science and Management by Runsheng Song Committee in charge: Professor Sangwon Suh, Co-Chair Professor Arturo A. Keller, Co-Chair Professor Krzysztof Janowicz March 2019 The dissertation of Runsheng Song is approved. _____________________________________________ Arturo A. Keller _____________________________________________ Krzysztof Janowicz _____________________________________________ Sangwon Suh, Committee Chair March 2019 Machine Learning for Addressing Data Deficiencies in Life Cycle Assessment Copyright © 2019 by Runsheng Song iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I have the privilege to work with a group of smart people during my stay at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara. I would like to first give my thanks to Prof. Sangwon Suh, my PhD advisor, who provides me countless guide, and offered invaluable helps during many difficult times over my PhD career. I would like to thank Prof. Arturo A. Keller, who is always encouraging and generous when I was confused or making mistake over the development of my research. I also want to thank Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz, who shines his wisdom from another field to my PhD research, and always pointing out the room for improvement in my study which I could never figure out without him. For what I learnt from my professors, I appreciate that. I want to give thanks to my lab mates, who shared probably one of the most important periods in my career. I learnt how to be humble, kind, patient and professional working with such a smart group of people. And after all, although the group might sometime disagree with each other in the CLiCC project, we still made a great achievement by building a tool that could help the other researchers in their study. For what we achieved together, I appreciate that. I want to thank my parents, although who are far away from me when I am studying abroad. They offered encouragement and helps to me without looking for payback. And I always know that I have a harbor to return if the waves are too strong. For what I received from them, I appreciate that. PhD is never an easy journey, although I am just starting my professional career, but I shall never forget what the difficult time taught me during this journey: the best thing is yet to come, and don’t give up 12/31/2018, Beijing VITA OF RUNSHENG SONG Dec 2018 EDUCATION • Bachelor of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, July 2012 • Master of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2014 • Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2019 (expected) PUBLICATIONS 1. Song, R., Qin, Y., Suh, S., & Keller, A. A. (2017). Dynamic model for the stocks and release flows of engineered nanomaterials. Environmental science & technology, 51(21), 12424-12433. 2. Palazzo, J., Liu, O. R., Stillinger, T., Song, R., Wang, Y., Hiroyasu, E. H., ... & Tague, C. (2017). Urban responses to restrictive conservation policy during drought. Water Resources Research, 53(5), 4459-4475. 3. Song, R., Keller, A. A., & Suh, S. (2017). Rapid life-cycle impact screening using artificial neural networks. Environmental science & technology, 51(18), 10777- 10785. 4. Tao, M., Li, D., Song, R., Suh, S., & Keller, A. A. (2018). OrganoRelease–A framework for modeling the release of organic chemicals from the use and post- use of consumer products. Environmental Pollution, 234, 751-761. AWARDS • Decker’s Fellowship (2015, 2016, 2017) ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES • 2013, Researcher, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara • 2012 – 2014 Researcher, Group Project, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara • 2014 – 2018 Graduate Research Assistant, Chemical Life Cycle Collaborative, University of California, Santa Barbara • 2015 – 2018 Reviewer for Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of Nanoparticle Research TALKS AT CONFERENCES 1. American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) 2015, Vancouver, CA “Estimating Intermediate and Elementary Flow in Chemical Manufacturing using Artificial Neural Networks” 2. American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) 2016, Charleston, US “Strategy for Developing Gate-to-Gate Chemical Life Cycle Inventory” 3. Computational LCA Workshop 2017, Zurich, CH (Joined from Remote) “Rapid Life-Cycle Impact Screening for Decision-Support at Early Stage Chemical Design” 4. The International Society for Industrial Ecology 2017, Chicago, US Workshop for Chemical Life Cycle Collaboration (CLiCC): “Life Cycle Inventory Module” and “Life Cycle Impact Assessment Module” 5. The 8th International Conference on Life Cycle Management 2017, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Workshop for Chemical Life Cycle Collaboration (CLiCC): “Life Cycle Inventory Module” 6. American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) 2018, Fort Collins, US Workshop for Chemical Life Cycle Collaboration (CLiCC): “Life Cycle Inventory Module” and “Species Sensitivity Distributions for Organic Chemicals Using Artificial Neural Networks” TALKS AT SEMINARS 1. PhD Symposium of Bren School 2016, Santa Barbara, US. “Rapid chemical life- cycle impact screening for decision-support at early design stage” 2. CLiCC Student Workshop 2016, Santa Barbara, US. “The Use Predictive Tools and Machine Learning in CLiCC Project” 3. CLiCC Annual Review Meeting 2015 – 2018, Santa Barbara, US. Multiple Topics ABSTRACT Machine Learning for Addressing Data Deficiencies in Life Cycle Assessment by Runsheng Song Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool that can be used to assess the impacts of chemicals over the entire life cycle. As the large number of new chemicals being invented every day, the costs and time needed to collect necessary data for LCA studies pose a challenge to LCA practitioners, as the speed of LCA studies cannot keep up with the speed of new chemical development. In practice, therefore, LCAs are conducted in the presence of data gaps and proxy values, limiting the relevance and quality of the results. As the techniques of machine learning evolves, a new opportunity to improve on data deficiencies and on the quality of LCA emerged. This dissertation is an attempt to harness the power of machine learning techniques to address the data deficiencies in LCA. It consists of four chapters: (1) Introduction. (2) Rapid life-cycle impact screening for decision-support using artificial neural networks. (3) Species Sensitivity Distributions Derived for a Large Number of Chemicals Using Artificial Neural Networks. IV. (4) Reducing the Uncertainty of the Characterization Factors in USEtox by Machine Learning – A Case Study for Aquatic Ecotoxicity. Each chapter is elaborated briefly below. The first chapter is the general introduction. The second chapter aims to demonstrate the method of estimating the characterized results using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Due to the lack of necessary data, very limited amount of characterized results for organic chemicals exist. In this chapter, I developed ANNs to estimate the characterized results of chemicals. Using molecular structure information as an input, I trained multilayer ANNs for the characterized results of chemicals on six impact categories: (1) global warming. (2) acidification. (3) cumulative energy demand. (4) human health. (5) ecosystem quality. (6) eco-indicator 99. The application domain (AD) of the model was estimated for each impact category within which the model exhibits higher reliability. As a result, the ANN models for acidification, human health, and eco-indicator 99 showed relatively higher performances with R2 values of 0.73, 0.71, and 0.87, respectively. This chapter indicates that ANN models can serve as an initial screening tool for estimating life-cycle impacts of chemicals for certain impact categories in the absence of more reliable information. The second chapter aims to estimate the ecotoxicological impact of chemicals using machine learning models. In chemical impact assessment, the overall ecotoxicological impact of a chemical to ecosystem, also known as the Effect Factor (EFs), is derived from the toxicity to multiple species through Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSDs). In the third chapter, I turned to estimate the chemical toxicities to several aquatic species with machine learning models, and then use them to build SSD, and to estimate the EF of organic chemicals. Over 2,000 experimental toxicity data were collected for 8 aquatic species from 20 sources, and an ANN model for each of the species was trained to estimate the Lethal Concentration (LC50) based on molecular structure. The 8 ANN models showed R2 scores of 0.54 to 0.75 (average 0.67, medium 0.69) on testing data. The toxicity values predicted by the ANN models were then used to fit SSDs using bootstrapping method. At the end, the models were applied to generate SSDs for 8,424 chemicals
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