ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS INCORPORATION IN BUILDINGS

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Borreguero ◽  
Engracia Lacasa ◽  
Carmen María Fernández ◽  
Ana Raquel de la Osa ◽  
Javier Llanos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Phase Change ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Phase Change Materials ◽  
Economic Feasibility

Establishing a Site for a Slovenian LILW Repository

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandi Virsˇek ◽  
Janja Sˇpiler ◽  
Miran Veselicˇ
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Management Agency ◽  
The Third ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
A Site

In this paper we will describe the practice and siting process for a LILW repository in Slovenia. Slovenia is a small country, and, consequently, its nuclear programme is small. It does include almost everything that large programmes have, but we still do not have a repository. In 2004, the Slovenian Radwaste management agency (ARAO) initiated a new procedure to find a proper location for a LILW repository. ARAO asked all Slovenian communities to participate. All communities have the option to withdraw from the process until they have approved the site. We received eight responses, and we prepared methodologies with different parameters to evaluate all potential sites. All sites were assessed by Slovenian experts, and determinations were based on using prepared methodologies. On the basis of their expert opinions, we prepared a prefeasibility study and chose the three most suitable sites. With these three we continued the process. After that time, one of the communities withdrew from the procedure, and another one reversed its proposed site and proposed a new one. For the third site we continued with the programme, and we prepared a feasibility study with a Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment and preliminary safety calculations for the comparison of different concepts of disposal units. If everything goes according to the plan for this site and the concept, we expect site approval in the first half of 2009. After that, we will start preparing everything necessary for building permission.

Life-cycle and environmental impact assessments on processing of plant fibres and its bio-composites: A critical review

2020 ◽  
pp. 152808372092473 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ramesh ◽  
C Deepa ◽  
L Rajesh Kumar ◽  
MR Sanjay ◽  
Suchart Siengchin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Impact Category ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments

From the beginning of humanity, our generation has been on the edge of finding suitable solutions to increase the product’s life-cycle and reduce the environmental impact of the product. Life-cycle assessment is a process to evaluate the effects of products or services whereas environmental impact assessment is an inter-related process of evaluating the environmental impact of a product or service. Plant fibre reinforced composites are developed by researchers, which are kindled by economic and environmental trepidations. The forest’s wood resources will decline and deplete due to environmental issues caused by natural and renewable resources. The main objective of this review is to conduct life-cycle assessment and environmental impact assessment studies on plant fibres and manufacturing of bio-composites from these fibres. It identifies the differences and causes to the environment, in particular about the total effect on the surrounding atmosphere. Another aim of this work is to assess a techno-economic feasibility based on the environmental impact category. In addition to this, inventory assessments of these composites are also dealt with, alongside the industrial applications. This review concludes a summary of current research and point out the opportunities and challenges for future researchers.

scholarly journals The environmental investments justification

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 08029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gurko ◽  
Svetlana Oparina ◽  
Lidia Vasyutkina ◽  
Elena Potekhina
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Environmental Measures

The article reveals the problems of improving environmental impact assessment and justification of the economic investments of industrial enterprises. The existing tools for environmental impact assessment are analyzed, information on the role and place of environmental impact assessment and investment design in the justification of the planned economic activity is systematized. For this purpose, considerable attention is paid to the analysis and synthesis of existing methodological approaches to this problem. The authors propose to consider environmental impact assessment and justification of environmental investments as a process aimed at making environmentally oriented management decisions on the feasibility and economic feasibility of implementing planned economic activities, the reasonableness of capital investments, taking into account possible adverse environmental, social, economic impacts and developing measures for their reduction and prevention. Based on the study, the authors developed a classification of the causes of environmental pollution, presented in the form of a tree of systems, allowing for a clear decomposition of the causes of pollution of the environment, specifying and refining the targeting of environmental measures necessary to reduce pollution. This research direction is also complemented by the development of a strategy (decision tree) and a mathematical description of the simulation procedure, which allows real-time making an objectively reasonable choice of options for implementing the planned economic activity, taking into account the totality of known information.

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