Review of the technical and environmental capabilities of Geothermal Systems through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)Review of the technical and environmental capabilities of Geothermal Systems through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή Master Thesis 2018-09-052018enIn an era of increased environmental awareness, many countries turn to renewable energy sources for large scale applications (e.g. electricity generation power plants) or small scale installations (e.g. buildings’ heating and cooling). In this context it makes sense that there is an increasing interest for technologies that depend on renewable energy, such as geothermal systems, and their analytic study through advanced tools such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In this study, we make a detailed review of academic sources that have used LCA in various applications of geothermal energy, as well as the technical and environmental capabilities this technology has to offer.Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή που υποβλήθηκε στη Σχολή Μηχανικών Παραγωγής και Διοίκησης για την πληρωση προϋποθέσεων λήψης του Μεταπτυχιακού Διπλώματος Ειδίκευσης.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Μηχανικών Παραγωγής και ΔιοίκησηςPappas_Athanasios_MSc_2018.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2018-09-05application/pdf2.4 MBfree Pappas Athanasios Παππας Αθανασιος Papaefthimiou Spiros Παπαευθυμιου Σπυριδων Pouliezos Anastasios Πουλιεζος Αναστασιος Konsolakis Michail Κονσολακης Μιχαηλ Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης Technical University of Crete LCA Life Cycle Assessment Ανάλυση Κύκλου Ζωής Geothermal energy Γεωθερμική ενέργεια