Life Cycle Assessment of Water Production Technologies - Part 1: Life Cycle Assessment of Different Commercial Desalination Technologies (MSF, MED, RO) (9 pp)

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gemma Raluy ◽  
Luis Serra ◽  
Javier Uche
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Production Technologies

scholarly journals Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Arable Crop Production Technologies Compared to Different Harvesting Work Systems in Short Rotation Energy Plantations

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
András Polgár ◽  
Zoltán Kovács ◽  
Veronika Elekné Fodor ◽  
András Bidló
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Short Rotation ◽  
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Arable Crop ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Energy Plantations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rotation Energy

Abstract Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) was developed as a tool for sustainable, decision-supporting environmental management. Applying agricultural sector-LCA in order to achieve both internal (comparative) and external (efficiency enhancing) benefits is a priority. Since the life-cycle assessment of products and processes attracts great interest, applying the method in agriculture is relevant. Our study undertakes a comparative environmental life-cycle assessment (LCA) of local arable crop production technologies used for the main cultivated plants: maize, sunflower, lucerne, cereals, and canola (environmental data in the territorial approach calculated on a 1 ha unit and in the quantitative approach calculated on 1 t of produce). We prepared an environmental inventory of the arable crop production technologies, constructed the life-cycle models, and executed the impact assessment. We also compiled an environmental ranking of technologies. In the impact interpretation, we compared the results with the values of short rotation energy plantations in each impact category. We analysed carbon footprints closely. The obtained results help better assess environmental impacts, climate risks, and climate change as they pertain to arable crop production technologies, which advances the selection of appropriate technologies adjusted to environmental sensitivities.

Recent Developments on Life Cycle Assessment of Building Materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 993 ◽  
pp. 1534-1544
Author(s):  
Ning Liu ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Xian Zheng Gong ◽  
Li Wei Hao ◽  
Feng Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Glass Ceramics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Lca Case Studies ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Green Manufacture

In recent years, the building materials industry in China has made great progress in the R&D of energy conservation, emission reduction and cleaner production technologies, in order to implement sustainable development policy. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the mainstream method to analyze the environmental impact of product during its life cycle, which plays an important role on ecological design of building materials and development of green manufacture technology in recent year. This paper reviewed the LCA studies of building materials. Firstly, the development of China's building materials industry and technical framework of LCA standardized by ISO14040/14044 were introduced. Moreover, the typical LCA case studies of cement, glass, ceramics, wall materials, insulation materials and other building materials were reviewed. At last, some prospects for future research and development in this field were put forward.

Social life cycle assessment of first and second-generation ethanol production technologies in Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Souza ◽  
Marcos Djun Barbosa Watanabe ◽  
Otavio Cavalett ◽  
Cassia Maria Lie Ugaya ◽  
Antonio Bonomi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Ethanol Production ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Second Generation Ethanol

Hybrid Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment of First- and Second-Generation Ethanol Production Technologies in Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 764-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos D. B. Watanabe ◽  
Mateus F. Chagas ◽  
Otávio Cavalett ◽  
Joaquim J. M. Guilhoto ◽  
W. Michael Griffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Ethanol Production ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Second Generation Ethanol
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