Comparison of Algal Biodiesel Production Pathways Using Life Cycle Assessment Tool

2013 ◽  
pp. 145-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anoop Singh ◽  
Stig Irving Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
Algal Biodiesel

Life-Cycle Assessment of Potential Algal Biodiesel Production in the United Kingdom: A Comparison of Raceways and Air-Lift Tubular Bioreactors

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 4062-4077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna L. Stephenson ◽  
Elena Kazamia ◽  
John S. Dennis ◽  
Christopher J. Howe ◽  
Stuart A. Scott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Algal Biodiesel ◽  
Air Lift

scholarly journals Life cycle assessment of hydrogenated biodiesel production from waste cooking oil using the catalytic cracking and hydrogenation method

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 409-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junya Yano ◽  
Tatsuki Aoki ◽  
Kazuo Nakamura ◽  
Kazuo Yamada ◽  
Shin-ichi Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Catalytic Cracking ◽  
Waste Cooking Oil ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
Cooking Oil

The use of the risk assessment in the life cycle assessment framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Francesca Milazzo ◽  
Francesco Spina
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Transfer Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Human Health Impacts

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to quantify the human health impacts of soy-biodiesel production with the aim to discuss about its environmental sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The integrated use of two current approaches, risk assessment (RA) and life cycle assessment (LCA), has allowed improvement of the potentialities of both in obtaining a more complete analysis. The implementation of a life cycle indicator for the assessment of the impacts on the human health, integrating the features of both approaches, is the main focus of this paper. Findings – It has been found that, although the biodiesel is a green fuel, it has some criticalities in its life cycle, which cannot be disregarded. In fact, even if biodiesel is essentially a clean fuel there are some phases, prior to the industrial phase, that can cause negative effects on human health and ecosystems. Practical implications – Results suggest some measures which can be adopted to substantially reduce human health impacts. Further alternative could be analysed in future to gain more insight about the use of biodiesel fuels. Originality/value – The estimation of the impacts of a process producing biodiesel has been made by using a novel approach. The novelty is associated with the calculation of the impacts on human health by using the transfer factors applied in RA. The use of such factors, properly modified in order to estimate the impacts on a wider scale than a site-dimension, allows defining a holistic approach, as LCA and RA are used as complete units but at the same time can be related to each other.

scholarly journals Mitigation Life Cycle Assessment: Best Practices from LCA of Energy and Water Infrastructure That Incurs Impacts to Mitigate Harm

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Grubert ◽  
Jennifer Stokes-Draut
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Functional Unit ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Lca Results

Climate change will require societal-scale infrastructural changes. Balancing priorities for water, energy, and climate will demand that approaches to water and energy management deviate from historical practice. Infrastructure designed to mitigate environmental harm, particularly related to climate change, is likely to become increasingly prevalent. Understanding the implications of such infrastructure for environmental quality is thus of interest. Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) is a common sustainability assessment tool that aims to quantify the total, multicriteria environmental impact caused by a functional unit. Notably, however, LCA quantifies impacts in the form of environmental “costs” of delivering the functional unit. In the case of mitigation infrastructures, LCA results can be confusing because they are generally reported as the harmful impacts of performing mitigation rather than as net impacts that incorporate benefits of successful mitigation. This paper argues for defining mitigation LCA as a subtype of LCA to facilitate better understanding of results and consistency across studies. Our recommendations are informed by existing LCA literature on mitigation infrastructure, focused particularly on stormwater and carbon management. We specifically recommend that analysts: (1) use a performance-based functional unit; (2) be attentive to burden shifting; and (3) assess and define uncertainty, especially related to mitigation performance.

Sustainability analysis on polymers using life cycle assessment tool (OPENLCA)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganeshan Gujilva Natarajan ◽  
R. Kamalakannan ◽  
R. Vijayakumar
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Analysis

Development of a BIM-based Environmental and Economic Life Cycle Assessment tool

2020 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 121705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rúben Santos ◽  
António Aguiar Costa ◽  
José D. Silvestre ◽  
Lincy Pyl
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Economic Life Cycle

Life cycle assessment of the transesterification double step process for biodiesel production from refined soybean oil in Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 11025-11033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Carvalho ◽  
Elson Santos da Silva ◽  
Silvia L. F. Andersen ◽  
Raphael Abrahão
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Soybean Oil ◽  
Biodiesel Production ◽  
Double Step ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Refined Soybean
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