LCA-IWM: A decision support tool for sustainability assessment of waste management systems

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1032-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. den Boer ◽  
E. den Boer ◽  
J. Jager
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Support Tool

scholarly journals Identification and Selection of Alternative Scenarios in LCA Studies of Integrated Waste Management Systems: A Review of Main Issues and Perspectives

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 2430-2442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentino Tascione ◽  
Andrea Raggi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Integrated Waste Management ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
Definition Of

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a decision support tool that can be used to assess the environmental performance of an integrated waste management system or to identify the system with the best performance through a comparative analysis of different scenarios. The results of the analysis depend primarily on how the scenarios to be compared are defined, that is on which waste fractions are assumed to be sent to certain treatments/destinations and in what amounts. This paper reviews LCAs of integrated waste management systems with the aim of exploring how the scenarios to be compared are defined in the preliminary phase of an LCA. This critical review highlighted that various criteria, more or less subjective, are generally used for the definition of scenarios. Furthermore, the number of scenarios identified and compared is generally limited; this may entail that only the best option among a limited set of possibilities can be selected, instead of identifying the best of all possible combinations. As a result, the advisability of identifying an integrated life cycle-based methodological approach that allows finding the most environmentally sound scenario among all of those that are theoretically possible is stressed.

Riser Management System Performance in Ultra-Deep Water With Rapidly Changing Current

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Gundersen ◽  
Gullik A. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Joint Angles ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Deep Waters ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Loop Currents ◽  
And Control

The largest loading in terms of bending for a top tensioned riser in ultra-deep waters, subject to strong and rapidly changing ocean currents, are found to be close to the upper and lower extremeties. This has been demonstrated by the analyses of various dynamic current scenarios including strong cross currents and currents with rapidly changing direction, resembling eddies and loop currents based on metocean data from Brazilian waters. The riser response in terms of deflections and bending is not found to be critical at any location along the riser for the investigated load cases. Monitoring a riser based on the upper and lower flex-joint angles are hence sufficient to safely operate and control the drilling riser under such conditions. This implies that Riser Management Systems (RMS) that are widely used in intermediate and deep waters with slowly varying currents can safely be applied for top tensioned risers in ultra-deep waters with strong and rapidly changing currents. In fact they may prove to be more important under these conditions, to reduce the wear and tear, improve safety, and as a decision support tool for when to safely disconnect the riser.

WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ROMANIA: CURRENT DATA AND APPLICATION OF A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassilis Inglezakis ◽  
Mihaela Ambarus ◽  
Nona Ardeleanu ◽  
Konstantinos Moustakas ◽  
Maria Loizidou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Support Tool

scholarly journals Application of the US decision support tool for materials and waste management

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1006-1020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Thorneloe ◽  
Keith Weitz ◽  
Jenna Jambeck
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals A decision support tool for planning biowaste management systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 242 ◽  
pp. 118460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Delgado ◽  
Ana López ◽  
Miguel Cuartas ◽  
Carlos Rico ◽  
Amaya Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Support Tool

scholarly journals SWIMS: A dynamic life cycle-based optimisation and decision support tool for solid waste management

2018 ◽  
Vol 196 ◽  
pp. 547-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiron P. Roberts ◽  
David A. Turner ◽  
Jonathan Coello ◽  
Anne M. Stringfellow ◽  
Ibrahim A. Bello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Support Tool
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