Life Cycle Assessment of Water Production Technologies - Part 2: Reverse Osmosis Desalination versus the Ebro River Water Transfer (9 pp)

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 346-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Gemma Raluy ◽  
Luis Serra ◽  
Javier Uche ◽  
Antonio Valero
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
River Water ◽  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Water Transfer ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Ebro River ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Reverse Osmosis Desalination

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment of Filtration Systems of Reverse Osmosis Units: A Case Study of a University Campus

Procedia CIRP ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 268-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikrant Bhakar ◽  
D.N.S. Hemanth Kumar ◽  
Nitin Krishna Sai ◽  
Kuldip Singh Sangwan ◽  
Smita Raghuvanshi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
University Campus

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.

Impacts of River Water Consumption on Aquatic Biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment—A Proposed Method, and a Case Study for Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 3236-3244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle M. Tendall ◽  
Stefanie Hellweg ◽  
Stephan Pfister ◽  
Mark A. J. Huijbregts ◽  
Gérard Gaillard
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
River Water ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Aquatic Biodiversity
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