Technical readiness level of biohydrogen production process and its value chain

2022 ◽  
pp. 335-355
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shahbaz ◽  
Tareq Al-Ansari ◽  
Abrar Inayat ◽  
Muddasser Inayat
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Biohydrogen Production ◽  
Readiness Level ◽  
Technical Readiness

scholarly journals Accounting for Carbon Footprint Flows in Wine Production Process. Case Study in Spanish Winery

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 8381
Author(s):  
Miguel Marco-Fondevila ◽  
José M. Moneva ◽  
Fernando Llena-Macarulla
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Wine Production

Companies are gradually becoming conscious about the necessity of reducing their environmental impact and adopting low-carbon strategies in order to cope with increasing institutional and social demands. However, remaining competitive while reducing the environmental impact and improving the corporate image requires adopting sophisticated mechanisms boosting eco-efficiency and keeping costs tight. Material Flows Cost Accounting (MFCA) is an instrument that allows the monitoring of, measurement of, and accounting for physical and monetary processes along the production process. If extended to the supply chain, and applied to the energy usage and CO2 emissions, it allows one to account for the Carbon Footprint (CF) of a company and its products at any given stage of the value chain. The current paper presents a case study developed under the framework of a three-year project to introduce an energy use and carbon emissions monitoring and accounting system in a large winery company in Spain, based on the MFCA approach and CF accountability. Including the supply chain of the company and the whole farming cycle of its main input, the case study presents the method and phases adopted to implement the project, its direct and indirect results and outcomes, and the conclusions that can be extracted, which may be inspirational for practitioners and scholars envisaging similar projects.

Improvement of Anaerobic Operation and Isolation Culture on Hydrogen-Producing and Fermentative Bacteria

2011 ◽  
Vol 183-185 ◽  
pp. 895-899
Author(s):  
Yong Feng Li ◽  
Jian Yu Yang ◽  
Xin Yu Pan ◽  
Jing Wei Zhang ◽  
Wei Han
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Enrichment Culture ◽  
Biohydrogen Production ◽  
Culture Bottle ◽  
Fermentative Bacteria ◽  
Bacterium Growth

Isolation and culture of hydrogen-producing and fermentative bacteria is an important foundation on biohydrogen production process. There are complicated operation and composition in present anaerobic techniques and culture media. Hungate technique was improved and plate of culture bottle was established by comparing anaerobic methods and bacterium growth. Isolation and enrichment culture media were confirmed by the test of different composition and the species and amount of hydrogen-producing and fermentative bacterium. 550 bacterium strains were isolated by the anaerobic operation.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Depoliticisation: Certifications in the Cut-Flower Industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerda Kuiper ◽  
Andreas Gemählich
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Lake Naivasha ◽  
Cut Flower ◽  
Direct Sales ◽  
Flower Industry ◽  
Industry Certifications

This article focuses on the emergence of certification schemes in the cut-flower industry in Naivasha, Kenya. It is shown that, although this turn is often legitimised through references to “sustainability,” the change was mainly brought about by the growing importance of a new value chain of “direct sales.” The article furthermore elaborates on the most well-known certificate in Naivasha, Fairtrade. This certificate aims to enhance sustainability by empowering workers, yet it does not profoundly change power relations within the industry. The article concludes that “sustainability” in the context of Naivasha has been an ill-defined concept, used to legitimise a turn to certifications. Rather than bringing about a profound transformation of the production process, these certifications obscure and even consolidate the existing socio-economic configuration of the industry. Certifications thus run the risk of having “depoliticising” effects.

The value chain of traded products of medicinal plants in Tanzania: the emerging role of formulators

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eziacka Mathew Mpelangwa ◽  
Jeremia Ramos Makindara ◽  
Olav Jull Sørensen ◽  
Kenneth Michael-Kitundu Bengesi
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Relational Governance ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Output Structure

PurposeProducts of medicinal plants play significant roles in management of diseases. Their accessibility through trade plays a key role in health, economic and livelihood improvement. However, the traceability of the production process from their source in Tanzania is lacking. This study aims to depicture the production process of formulated products of medicinal plants.Design/methodology/approachThe study applied the value chain theory using qualitative data from literature review and survey to practitioners of traditional medicine. Survey data were collected through 15 in-depth interviews and ten focus group discussions in five regions of Tanzania.FindingsInput to output structure is performed through a five actors' value chain. The raw material is provided by harvesters who collected medicinal plants from wild. The processing is conducted by wholesalers and formulators. The wholesalers add value by drying, milling and bulk packaging of individual medicinal plants. Formulators mix different medicinal plants to create readymade products for specified diseases. Distribution is done by retailers and healers. There were six regulating and two supporting organizations. Private supporters were millers and transporters. Governance structure was deduced to be relational. Relational governance was a result of lack official standards along the value chain.Originality/valueThe described value chain can be used to guide investments in production of products of medicinal plants by improving formulation technology.

Industry 4.0 and Internal Knowledge Management The case of Corporate Academies in Emilia-Romagna region

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Professor Lucio Poma ◽  
Dr. Haya Al Shawwa ◽  
Concetta Rau
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Codified Knowledge ◽  
Emilia Romagna Region ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

Industry 4.0 is not only a bundle of linked innovations, but a wide-ranging revolution that also affects the organizational aspects of the company and its value chain. This work focuses on the relationship between the tacit knowledge inherent in human resources and the codified knowledge built within the machinery and the whole production process 4.0. Human resources have returned to the center of the production process. Companies face a trade-off between the need to invest more and more resources towards internal training and the increased need to "retain" their employees. The Corporate Academy can be an interesting tool to achieve these two goals simultaneously. This work analyzes and compares 29 Italian Corporate Academies in the manufacturing sector based on a research and survey Nomisma. The study helped to understand the motivations that led these companies to adopt this tool, in addition to understand the different methods that they undertook in the process and the relative actual and expected benefits.

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